HE may have had a short-stakes racing career, but Outreach is now due to have his first two-year-old progeny begin their own race careers in the new season.
A number of Outreach progeny proved popular at this year's major yearling sales with a colt selling for $180,000, while another sold for $150,000, an excellent result considering his service fee is listed at $7700.
Showing early racecourse brilliance, Outreach had only one juvenile start when he stretched subsequent Golden Slipper winner Vancouver to his limit, finishing second to him in the Group 3 Canonbury Stakes at Rosehill.
Standing at Widden Stud, the bay horse is a full-brother to champion Australian juvenile filly Overreach who won the world's richest juvenile race the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes, while second was colt Sidestep, a first crop sire of this year's Golden Slipper winner, Kiamichi.
A son of champion Australian sire Exceed And Excel, Outreach is a three-quarter-brother to MRC Blue Diamond Stakes-G1 winner Reward For Effort, a successful sire in Victoria.
Outreach and Overreach were produced from triple winning Sydney mare Bahia, a daughter of former leading sire Snippets, who is also the damsire of another Golden Slipper winner Crystal Lily.
Other Snippets broodmares that have produced Group 1 winners include Coolmore Stud's high profile young sire Merchant Navy, and Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time. Both Overreach and Outreach were bred and raced by George Altomonte's Corumbene Stud, also breeders of another high profile stallion, Sebring.
