HE may be deceased, but breed-shaping Australian bred sire Redoute's Choice further creates a dynasty via his younger sire sons including forgotten bay, Counterattack, which was represented with a recent winner.
Counterattack first crop juvenile Diamond Hands won the important Gold Nugget Handicap on debut, a race included on the star-studded Anzac Day program at Bathurst.
Sadly for Australia, Counterattack was commandeered at the end of his only stud season (at Kitchwin Hills near Scone) in 2017, jetting out to continue his stud career in Germany.
Bred by Geoff Grimish, Counterattack - a half-brother to Group 1 winning full-siblings Red Tracer and Shellscrape, won almost $1 million in track earnings via his 15 total wins and places.
Kitchwin Hills' Bo Ritson said that Counterattack had a really good temperament and was very tractable while standing at the Gundy district property.
"He was a really good-looking young stallion and would have really let down over time into a smashing older horse," Bo said.
The recent win of Morecoruba at Pakenham brings to mind of another "less talked about" Redoute's Choice young sire son, Swear, and another represented with his first two-year-olds racing.
Standing at Spendthrift in Victoria, Swear was a $725,000 Inglis Australian Yearling Sale graduate, which speaks for his type and pedigree - renowned in the Redoute's Choice breed.
Swear was also a top class galloper winning on debut, before taking the ATC Ming Dynasty Stakes-G3 and finishing second in the Spring Champion Stakes-G1 in a short five start career.
A holder of eight national sires' championship honours, Redoute's Choice will have a lasting legacy via his male-line for years to come with 34 registered sire sons in Australia.
Captivant wins
HE may have missed out on a Golden Slipper winner, however hot first crop sire Capitalist bounced back siring the winner - Captivant, of the ATC Champagne Stakes-G1 at Randwick last Saturday week.
Bred by Senga Bissett of Ashleigh Thoroughbreds, Scone, Captivant becomes the third stakes winner the Newgate Farm, Aberdeen, based Capitalist, a Written Tycoon stallion which hit the front in the race for the champion Australian first season sire honours.
It was a deserved win for Capitvant, a colt which hatched his race ability last October after winning the ATC Victory Vein Plate, and having third placings in the Skyline Stakes-G3 and Sires Produce Stakes-G1 over recent months.
Defcon off the mark
FORMER brilliant two-year-old, Defcon opened his sire account recently when his first crop juvenile Alert And Ready won over a sprint distance to win her maiden race at Toowoomba last month.
A $40,000 purchase from her breeders Eureka Stud at the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale, Alert And Ready has quickly repaid her owners now earning over $100,000.
By Coolmore stud's stalwart stallion Choisir, Defcon stands at the McAlpine family's Eureka Stud near Cambooya in south-east Queensland.
Like his sire a chestnut, Defcon won Canberra's most prestigious Black Opal Stakes-G3 at two, before taking the MRC H D F McNeil Stakes-G3 at Caulfield at three.
In New Zealand, French bred Vadamos - who shuttles to Rich Hill Stud, Matamata sired his first southern hemisphere-bred winner when Art De Triomphe won at Riccarton Park.
A French Group 1 winner, Vadamos is by champion German sire Monsun, also sire of Melbourne Cup winners Fiorente (2013), Protectionist (2010), and Almandin (2016).
Interestingly, Vadamos also raced in Australia finishing his track career with fourths in the VRC Mackinnon Stakes-G1, and MVRC W S Cox Plate-G1 in Melbourne.
Vale Jim Bouffler
INDUSTRY lover, Jim Bouffler, a long-time racing administrator after joining the board of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club (MTC) in 1985, passed-away recently at age 84.
Following in the footsteps of his father Jack - who served on the MTC board for 18 years, Mr Bouffler was elected president in 1996, and served until his retirement in 2005, a year which he was also honoured with life membership.
