National Sale form guide - Emerging stallions

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Most of Australia's best emerging sires are represented with mares in foal to them at next week's Magic Millions National Sale, having franked their reputations with their progeny on the track over the past two seasons.

The first two crops of the class 2015, which includes the likes of Rubick, Deep Field, Better Than Ready and Brazen Beau have already made a considerable impression on the track.

Broodmare buyers head to the Gold Coast with an excellent guide as to the trajectory of the sire line of the foals they are buying with their mares and, in what is likely to be a buyers' market, that intel could prove crucial in where they decide to invest.

We have looked at the sires represented from the Class of 2015 and analyse the stats that matter when assessing a prospective broodmare buy.

Newgate's Deep Field and Coolmore's Rubick are the dominant representatives in terms of numbers of mares in foal at this sale, with 27 and 17 respectively. Given their respective success, and the fact they have been the two busiest sires of their class, in terms of services across their first four years, that is not surprising.

Deep Field

Mares in foal at the Sale: 27 in total: Lots 225, 235, 251, 257, 258, 259, 288, 289, 300, 302. 318, 338, 366, 375, 376, 426, 480, 542, 546, 552, 554, 578, 581, 592, 610, 617, 642

Total 2019 services: 256

2019 Service Fee: $44,000 (inc GST)

Deep Field will finish second to Rubick on the Champion Second Season Sires' Table, having had a record-breaking 85 winners, including the stakes-winners Xilong, Cosmic Force, Fituese and Riddle Me That. He topped the averages on yearling sales this year for his class, at $157,209.

Xilong

Rubick

Mares in foal at the Sale: 17 in total: Lots 245, 280, 295, 298, 308, 398, 416, 452, 456, 460, 467, 483, 485, 541, 591, 632, 657

Total 2019 services: 262

2019 service fee: $38,500 (inc GST)

Rubick will be crowned the dux of the class this year, thanks largely to The Everest winner Yes Yes Yes. He also enjoyed stakes success with Rubisaki and Condo's Express. His 2020 yearlings have averaged $70,378.

Shooting To Win

Mares in foal at the Sale: 12 in total: Lots 244, 323, 326, 387, 399, 433, 464, 474, 493, 545, 603, 731

Total 2019 Services: 179

2019 service fee: $22,000 (inc GST)

Darley's Shooting To Win is well represented on the Gold Coast with 12 mares in foal to him for sale. He has had 42 winners in total in 2019/20, including the stakes-winning pair Ms Catherine and Extra Time and he currently sits in sixth in the second-season sires table. His yearlings averaged $64,000 at the sales this year.

Ms Catherine

Better Than Ready

Mares in foal at the Sale: Nine in total: Lots 361, 379, 391, 406, 409, 420, 535, 613, 629

Total 2019 Services: 216

2019 service fee: $33,000 (inc GST)

Lyndhurst Stud Farm's Better Than Ready has established himself as a prolific winner-getter, particularly in his home state of Queensland and he had 61 in all to date in 2020/21, to go with his 23 last season. In total, his progeny have won over $3.5 million for the season. He continued to prove popular at the yearling sales with his stock averaging $52,000 in 2020, a nearly five-fold return on his initial service fee.

Brazen Beau

Mares in foal at the Sale: Four in total: Lots 422, 529, 573, 606

Total 2019 Services: 127

2019 service fee: $49,500 (inc GST)

Darley's Brazen Beau has had more stakes winners in 2019/20 than any of the others in his class this season, with five: Pretty Brazen, Colada, Sartorial Splendor, Larimer Street and Ideas Man. He has had 37 winners all up, and holds a narrow advantage over Better Than Ready of around $95,000, and sits in third place on the sires list.

Being a dual Group 1-winning son of I Am Invincible, his stock has always proven popular at the yearling sales and this year they averaged $138,750.

Ideas Man

Hallowed Crown

Mares in foal at the Sale: Three in total: Lots 332, 393, 429

Total 2019 Services: 46

2019 service fee: $11,000 (inc GST)

Hallowed Crown's credentials as a stallion got a huge boost this season with the emergence of Colette as a star staying filly for Godolphin. She won the G1 Australian Oaks and the G3 Adrian Knox S., becoming his first stakes winner. He is currently 10th in the sires table for the second-season stallions and has had 23 winners this season. He has now moved to Twin Hills Stud. His yearling progeny averaged $72,000 this year.

Sidestep

Mares in foal at the Sale: Three in total: Lots 343, 407, 568

Total 2019 Services: 112

2019 service fee: $22,000 (inc GST)

Sidestep, who stands at Telemon Thoroughbreds, was the Champion First-Season Sire last season, edging out Better Than Ready with significant assistance from Golden Slipper S., winner Kiamichi.

This season, Sidestep, whose service fee rose significantly off that first-season success, had 16 winners in total.

Kiamichi

Adelaide (Ire)

Mares in foal at the Sale: One in total: Lot 74

Total 2019 Services: 104

2019 service fee: $11,000 (inc GST)

Coolmore's Cox Plate winning stallion Adelaide (Ire) got his first Group 1 winner this season with Funstar, who has proven a terrific early flagbearer with three stakes wins already to her credit. She was one of 15 winners for the son of Galileo (Ire), which is a decent return for a stallion whose progeny are expected to take time.

He has been well supported by breeders with last year his fourth straight season with over 100 mares having debuted with 99 in 2015.

Funstar (red cap)