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Just an hour south of Sydney is the hamlet of Bowral in the Southern Highlands. A stones throw away is Currockbilly home of Ray Willis Rheinwood Pastoral. Perennially visible at major sales throughout Australia, Rheinwood is bringing a small, select team of youngsters to Easter.
Willis backed his judgment when sending a number of his mares to Gr 1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Nadeem (Redoutes Choice) when the young stallion made his breeding debut in 2007. Fortune favours the brave and theres every reason his call is the right one. Of the Rheinwood draft, three of the five are by the Darley freshman sire, each of them a colt.
Lot 429 is out of Fly By Night a G1 ? performed stakes filly who has already produce stakes-placed seven-time winner Captain Chaos. Lot 524 is out of a Canny Lad half -sister to black- type fillies Country Music (two Hong Kong Gr1 runners- up) and Maison De Paris (stakes-placed in South Africa).
Now heres a colt Lot (270) that could be anything! By Starspangeldbanners sireChoisir, hes out of an Agha Khan-bred half-sister to dual Gr1 fourth placed French Gr3 winner Zarkiya, and also to Zarkasha, dam of undefeated European Champion filly Zarkava, whose seven wins include five Gr1 headed by the Arc.
Completing the draft is Lot 276. By underrated Testa Rossa,
Shes a half-sister to dual Group-placed filly So Anyway from a hlf-sister to no less than four stakes-winners and two stakes-placed winners from the immediate family of Gr1 winner Imananabaa |
