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New Victorian stallion farm Lovatsville have formed a strategic partnership with the Australian Trainer&rsquo;s Association (ATA) designed to support trainer&rsquo;s through a series of stallion nominations aligned to upcoming races in regional Victoria this Spring.
Lovatsville will be providing two (2) nominations to each of the stallions on their 2024 roster for the winning trainers of select fillies and mares races over the coming months. To be eligible to receive the stallion nomination the winning trainer of the select races (or next best placegetter) is required to be a current member of the ATA. The trainer can either choose to use that nomination on a mare that they own themselves, or monetise within their client base.
Lovatsville founder Sam White is excited by the initiative and the opportunity to partner with the ATA "It's a robust time in business for everyone, both inside and out of the racing industry. Trainer&rsquo;s continue to be at the coal face of absorbing expenses in caring for their horses and their staff and are often the last to get paid.&rdquo;
White, who has a background in racing having spent the past 5 years with Ciaron Maher, understands the need for the breeding industry and racing sector to support each other&nbsp; &ldquo;We just want the trainers to know that we stand alongside them. We see this contribution as another way of doing circular business.&rdquo;
Stephen Bell, CEO of the ATA, is thrilled with the announcement &ldquo;It&rsquo;s fantastic that our members and their businesses will have a chance to compete for a &ldquo;bonus&rdquo; through these nominations, on top of the already fantastic prize money available in Victoria. Our trainers now have the chance to compete for an additional $100,000 in revenue created through this opportunity.&rdquo;
The Lovatsville roster looms as one of Victoria&rsquo;s most exiting, standing:
Royal Meeting: Champion Victorian 1st Season Sire and the sire of last season's Group 1 Blue Diamond filly, Hayasugi. Standing for $22,000 (incl. GST).
Fierce Impact: Three-time Group 1 winning Champion miler by Deep Impact, whose first crop 2024 yearlings sold up to $310,000. Standing for $13,750 (incl. GST).
Generation: Stunning Snitzel Group 1 performer sprinter out of star 2 year-old filly Fontition. Standing his first season for $11,000 (incl. GST).
Gold Trip: Melbourne Cup winner and Turnbull Stakes weight-for-age Champion, who is the last horse to beat globetrotting Romantic Warrior. Standing for $8,800 (incl. GST). For further information, please contact: Lovatsville: Sam White, +61 408 123 428 or <a href="mailto:sam@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sam@lovatsville.com</a> | <a href="http://www.lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lovatsville.com</a> ATA: Stephen Bell, +61 400 331 754 or <a href="mailto:stephen@austrainers.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stephen@austrainers.com.au</a> A list of the eligible races is below:
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(homepage) Lovatsville and the Australian Trainers Association announce groundbreaking new partnership

Sam White

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ROYAL CROWNED CHAMPION (courtesy of <a href="https://www.ttrausnz.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ttrausnz.com.au/</a>, by Keely Mckitterick) Lovatsville had plenty to cheer about at the TBV Victorian Breeding Awards on Saturday night with our first-season sire, Royal Meeting (Ire), awarded the Champion Victorian First Season Sire trophy, sponsored by FlyIRT. Royal Meeting produced this season&rsquo;s G1 Blue Diamond S. victress, Hayasugi, who also swept the G2 Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) and the G3 Blue Diamond Preview (Fillies). He is also the sire of the winners Royal Majesty, Body Of Venus, and Take A Bow. Lovatsville principal Sam White told The Thoroughbred Report, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re thrilled to have Royal Meeting on the Lovatsville roster. We&rsquo;re very appreciative of Aquis and Leneva Park, who created opportunities for the stallion going forward. Quite importantly, the shareholder group has supported him strongly, and the reason he&rsquo;s having success is down to them. &ldquo;He covered more mares in his second and third season than in his first, which speaks for the quality of the foals on the ground, but also because he&rsquo;s got those numbers behind him his future looks extremely positive.&rdquo; <img src="https://www.prism.horse/api/public/image/cc24c3a1e69846b2a90c4e878ae40a26.png" alt="" height="628" /> (Photo of Royal Meeting with his 1st season sire trophy yesterday morning. Photo taken by Lovatsville's Padraig O'Sullivan) &ldquo;Royal Meeting&rsquo;s Blue Diamond winner, Hayasugi, was a $47,500 purchase. Another winner, Take A Bow, was purchased for $40,000. She won in Queensland and they think she&rsquo;s a stakes horse. Then there&rsquo;s Royal Majesty, trained by Chris Bieg, who was a $65,000 yearling. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s also got horses like War Council, who sold for $7,000 as a weanling and then didn&rsquo;t meet his $40,000 reserve as a yearling. He hasn&rsquo;t won yet, but he&rsquo;s been metro-placed and has over $80,000 in prizemoney. &ldquo;Royal Meeting has had more humble opportunities compared to some other high-profile stallions, but he&rsquo;s capitalised on them. He's upgrading his mares, and that&rsquo;s all there is to it. He&rsquo;s got a good percentage of winners to runners, which puts him at the pointy end of the stallion standings, alongside the prizemoney his progeny have earned in their first season.&rdquo; The son of Invincible Spirit (Ire) is standing the 2024 season at Lovatsville, located at Seymour Park for a fee of $22,000 (inc GST) with his book filling quickly. LOVATSVILLE STALLION PARADE WEEKEND We are pleased to invite you to our first ever stallion parade weekend to inspect our brilliant roster of stallions for this coming season. Given it is such a busy weekend for breeders with a number of farms showcasing their rosters, Lovatsville (complementing Swettenham's location and parade times) will be providing breeders with various options to view our horses. An RSVP is essential, so should you wish to attend please click on the link below and complete the short survey to select your preferred parade time. <a href="https://survey.zohopublic.com.au/zs/9CCKeL" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.prism.horse/api/public/image/4212cce27782459ea9cf2cabbba258d2.png" alt="" height="398" /></a> Should you not be able to attend the parades on the selected dates and would like to inspect our stallions, or to learn more about the package deals or breeding rights packages that we are offering on our stallions, including: FIERCE IMPACT ($13,750 incl. GST) GENERATION ($11,000 incl. GST); and GOLD TRIP ($8,800 incl. GST) please call or email Sam White on +61 408 123 428 or <a href="mailto:sam@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sam@lovatsville.com</a>
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(homepage) (royal-meeting)  Royal Crowned Champion

Royal Meeting continued his fine first season with Take A Bow producing an extremely impressive 4-length debut win at Gatton. Having been scratched from her initial starting point (a mid-week metro maiden), Take A Bow won in stylish fashion with her co-trainer Matt Hoysted delighted with the performance "We have a very good opinion of her and while we were expecting her to do that, it's always pleasing to see them perform, particularly after she missed the kick badly." The O'Dea/Hoysted stable will point the $40,000 Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling purchase for Jamie Walter's Proven Thoroughbreds from the Bell River draft at a Saturday city race next before aiming up at black-type targets "We do think she is a stakes filly in waiting and will measure up to that class." Take A Bow joins fellow Royal Meeting runners with Spring Stakes aims with Clint McDonald this week declaring that his brilliant Group 1 winning juvenile Hayasugi will be targeted at the Manikato and Moir Stakes double, while Chris Bieg's city-winning Royal Majesty is having a Spring plan mapped out to encompass stakes race targets. Royal Meeting sits comfortably towards the top of the first season sires table and standing at a fee of $22,000 (incl GST) represents exceptional value to the astute breeder mapping his trajectory. <img src="https://www.prism.horse/api/public/image/a0902ca0dfd44adf878df4410115f21e.png" alt="" height="420" />
*source breednet.com.au (5/7/24) We are pleased to invite you to our first ever stallion parade weekend to inspect our brilliant roster of stallions for this coming season. Given it is such a busy weekend for breeders with a number of farms showcasing their rosters, Lovatsville (complementing Swettenham's location and parade times) will be providing breeders with various options to view our horses. An RSVP is essential, so should you wish to attend please click on the link below and complete the short survey to select your preferred parade time. <a href="https://survey.zohopublic.com.au/zs/9CCKeL" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.prism.horse/api/public/image/4212cce27782459ea9cf2cabbba258d2.png" alt="" height="398" /></a> Should you not be able to attend the parades on the selected dates and would like to inspect our stallions, or to learn more about the package deals or breeding rights packages that we are offering on our stallions, including Fierce Impact ($13,750 incl. GST), Generation ($11,000 incl. GST) and Gold Trip ($8,800 incl. GST) please call or email Sam White on +61 408 123 428 or <a href="mailto:sam@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sam@lovatsville.com</a>

(homepage) (royal meeting) Stallion Parade Invitation, Royal Meeting stakes winner in waiting

Courtesy Tara Madgwick, Breednet 
Why does a champion trainer break a self-imposed &lsquo;no spec policy&rsquo; to buy a colt Snitzel colt with zero clients in mind and why does he still believe this horse has what it takes to be a leading sire &ndash; let&rsquo;s find out.
Inside mail is what has led a lot of trainers and bloodstock agents over the years to identify their stable stars of the future and that&rsquo;s also what led Ciaron Maher to splash out $575,000 for a Snitzel colt from Fontiton at Inglis Premier that would go on to become brilliant sprinter Generation.
A fast and precocious filly that won both the Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview and Group II MRC Blue Diamond Prelude, Fontiton only ever had two foals before her premature passing, but Maher believes she had something special that could be the catalyst in making a stallion of the future.
Click on the video below to watch the full story behind Generation and why Ciaron why so keen to buy him as a yearling. <img src="https://www.prism.horse/api/public/image/5e4c76d1a3b842bfbb6a9f75c0f2a897.png" alt="" width="691" height="359" /> Standing at Lovatsville this spring at a fee of $11,000, Generation was paraded at the Inglis Great Southern Sale last week and was much admired. There are also a limited number of breeding rights available and for more information please contact Sam White on 0408 123 428 or Brian Byrnes on 0478 010 364, email info@lovatsville.com or click this link - <a href="https://prismhorse.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/website_attachments/Generation_Breeding+Rights-Brochure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generation Breeding Rights Offer</a>
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(homepage) (generation) Inside Mail is What We’d All Like to Know

<span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Royal Meeting two year-old filly, Royal Majesty, became her sire&rsquo;s second city winner, alongside Group 1 Blue Diamond victor Hayasugi, when taking out the 2 year-old 1100m contest at Morphetville yesterday.&nbsp;
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Having her second start following a rather green debut in the Group 3 David Coles Stakes over 1200m through the Adelaide carnival, Royal Majesty benefitted from the race experience and drop down in distance to comfortably score by 2 lengths for trainer Chris Bieg and jockey Ben Price.&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bred by Wes Heritage and reared and sold by John Keneally&rsquo;s Erinvale Thoroughbreds, Royal Majesty was a $65,000 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling graduate to owner Brentknoll Thoroughbreds. Erinvale&rsquo;s Keneally, whose farm enjoyed a stellar weekend when fellow Erinvale product Roll On High won the Group 3 Fred Best Classic at Doomben, remember&rsquo;s Royal Majesty well &ldquo;She was a beautiful black filly. One of the nicest I&rsquo;d seen by the stallion. She had his substance, quality and strength and blended beautifully with the Lonhro mare.&rdquo;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Keneally was impressed by Royal Majesty&rsquo;s win, though not surprised &ldquo;She was all quality and had such a good brain. She always paraded well, had a brilliant attitude and held her action. They&rsquo;re things that are going to take you a long way in training.&rdquo; Trainer Chris Bieg was delighted with Royal Majesty's performance and believes there is more to come. "She is a lovely filly, very straightforward, extremely intelligent and easy to train. At this stage I intend on running her in a few weeks time in a $120,000 race over 1200m in town, followed by a spell with a view to targeting black-type races with her in the Spring." </div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Royal Majesty&rsquo;s win adds to her sire&rsquo;s growing profile, with fellow Royal Meeting runner and coincidentally Erinvale product, the city-placed War Council lining up at Sandown this Wednesday in the Taj Rossi Series Heat over 1400m. Royal Meeting's 2 year-old crop are expected to further emerge as late season 2 year-old's with promising runners expected to present for Michael Freedman, Steve O'Dea &amp; Matt Hoysted, John McArdle, Will Clarken, Travis Doudle to name only a few.&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Following a Magic Millions week where the Royal Meeting Syndicate spent over $1,000,000 on mares to bolster his book for this season, Royal Majesty is a timely reminder of Royal Meeting&rsquo;s talents, who alongside Too Darn Hot ($110,000 incl. GST) and Tassort ($38,500 incl. GST) is the only first season sire in Australia to have sired a Group 1 winner from their first crop. At a fee of only $22,000 (incl. GST), the attractive and extremely fertile Royal Meeting is one to consider this season for the astute breeder looking to follow a stallion on the rise.&nbsp; To learn more about Royal Meeting or the package deals we are offering on him and the Lovatsville roster that includes Fierce Impact ($13,750 incl GST), Generation ($11,000 incl GST) and Gold Trip ($8,800 incl GST) please call or email the team below. Sam White +61 408 123 428 <a href="mailto:sam@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sam@lovatsville.com</a> Brian Byrnes +61 478 010 364 <a href="mailto:brian@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brian@lovatsville.com</a> </div>

(royal-meeting) (homepage) Black-type targets for Royal Meeting filly

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Exciting first season sire Royal Meeting has had his upcoming 2024 breeding book bolstered with quality following a spending spree by the Royal Meeting Syndicate at the Magic Millions Broodmare Sale. 
Off the back of his first crop Group 1 Blue Diamond winner Hayasugi, Royal Meeting's 2 year-old crop are expected to further emerge as late season 2 year-old's with promising runners expected to present for Michael Freedman, Steve O'Dea &amp; Matt Hoysted, John McArdle, Will Clarken, Travis Doudle etc. Amongst a flurry of support for Royal Meeting in recent weeks, the Magic Millions purchases added to his book include: Lavish Girl - Multiple group performed winner of the Group 2 Angus Armanasco Stakes. Exclusive Lass - Stakes winning Nicconi mare, already the dam of Group 2 Todman Stakes placed, Boyfriend. Flying Snitzel - Multiple Group winning daughter of Group 1 winner Hula Flight. Hot Press - Half-sister to Group 2 winning 2 year-old Kristilli (who made $925,000 earlier in the week), from the same family as Lady Laguna. I'm Pretty Strong (US) - Street Cry daughter of Group 1 winner Shared Account and a half-sister to Group 1 winning 2 year-old Sharing.&nbsp; Osaycan - Half-sister to Group 2 winning 2 year-old Glistening (who made $950,000 earlier in the week), out of the Group 3 winning Beethog. Princess Mars - Half-sister to dual Group 1 winning Hong Kong Champion miler Contentment. Romany Rocks - Half-sister to Group 3 winning 2 year-old and Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes placed Invincible Star.&nbsp; 
With these quality mares added to Royal Meeting's book and with a host of exciting runners to further enhance his credentials, Royal Meeting remains extremely accessible to the breeding community standing at a fee of $22,000 incl. GST <a href="https://www.lovatsville.com/stallions/royal-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.prism.horse/api/public/image/ca2cd4d2961347f5b9c241484a4a8fa2.jpg" alt="" height="211" /></a>   To learn more about Royal Meeting or the package deals we are offering on him and the rest of the Lovatsville roster that includes Fierce Impact ($13,750 incl GST), Generation ($11,000 incl GST) and Gold Trip ($8,800 incl GST) please call or email the team below. Sam White +61 408 123 428 <a href="mailto:sam@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sam@lovatsville.com</a> Brian Byrnes +61 478 010 364 <a href="mailto:brian@lovatsville.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brian@lovatsville.com</a></div>

(royal-meeting) (homepage) Royal Meeting's book booms at the Magic Millions

Ciaron Maher Racing, Australian Bloodstock and new Victorian Stallion Station, Lovatsville, are pleased to announce that Gold Trip will stand this coming season at the Central Victoria-based stud, Lovatsville for a fee of $8,800 (incl. GST).
As a Melbourne Cup winner and weight-for-age Turnbull Stakes victor, Gold Trip retires having demonstrated immense talent and resilience to compete and perform in the Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup in back-to-back years. Racing as a 2 year-old in France, onto multiple Group 1 performances as a Classic European 3 year-old where he ran a gallant 4th to Sottass in the Prix de l&rsquo;Arc de Triomphe, followed by a glittering Australian racing career.
Providing Champion trainer Maher with the crowning achievement of his training career in winning the Melbourne Cup, Gold Trip retires as one of Maher&rsquo;s best ever gallopers &ldquo;He won a Melbourne Cup, was beaten a lip in the Caulfield Cup, was a weight-for-age Turnbull Stakes winner, could have won a Cox Plate and was elite in an Arc. He is a legitimate freak.&rdquo;
Co-purchaser and owner of Gold Trip, Australian Bloodstock&rsquo;s Jamie Lovett spoke of the attraction of Gold Trip when sourcing him from Europe &ldquo;What appealed to us in Gold Trip was his dynamic turn of foot, as we saw in that explosive performance in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes. There is no doubt in my mind that he was beating the best 2000m field assembled in this country in the last 20 years and he beat them with his head on his chest.&rdquo;
Lovett further added, in qualifying Gold Trip&rsquo;s stud credentials &ldquo;Weight-for-age is our measure for the elite, however when he was asked to carry weight in the big handicaps he had the class to do that too and I believe that is a quality that will resonate with breeder&rsquo;s looking to breed a genuine racehorse.&rdquo;
Lovatsville&rsquo;s Sam White is delighted to add Gold Trip to the Lovatsville roster &ldquo;It is quite rare that the Australasian breeding community get a chance to access horses who have performed so well in an Arc, arguably Europe&rsquo;s premier race. Gold Trip had the versatility to race at the highest level here for multiple seasons demonstrating his class and toughness, while also displaying obvious speed where he flew past subsequent Cox Plate winner Romantic Warrior in the Turnbull.&rdquo;
White feels that Gold Trips performance, physique and price point will pique the interest of many breeders &ldquo;At $8,800 he is priced extremely well considering his ability. We want to inject further value into the opportunity by providing very attractive breeding right packages so that Gold Trip&rsquo;s supporters can access him for the duration of his career for a modest outlay.&rdquo;
Alongside the breeding right packages in Gold Trip, Ciaron Maher Racing, Australian Bloodstock and Gold Trip&rsquo;s ownership group have committed to supporting the horse at stud, ensuring that he starts his career at stud positively.&nbsp;
To learn more about Gold Trip and the breeding right packages available, or Lovatsville and the other stallions on their roster for this season, please visit their website<a href="http://www.lovatsville.com/"> www.lovatsville.com</a> or contact Sam White: +61 408 123 428 or <a href="mailto:sam@lovatsville.com">sam@lovatsville.com</a>

(gold-trip) (homepage) Melbourne Cup Champion Gold Trip to stand at Lovatsville

Lovatsville are delighted to have secured freshman Snitzel speedster, Generation, to stand at stud this season, providing Victorian breeders with an opportunity to breed to that colonial speed option so often presented in the Hunter Valley.&nbsp;
Generation&rsquo;s journey to stud was made a long time ago. His dam, Fontiton, was a pre-Christmas stakes winning 2 year-old and the &ldquo;talk&rdquo; horse leading into the Blue Diamond series, where she duly captured both the Fillies Preview and Prelude. While the Diamond wasn&rsquo;t to be, her obvious speed, her good looks and the potential upside was well found when she was bought for $1,100,000 by SF Bloodstock at the 2016 Magic Millions.&nbsp;
Fontiton&rsquo;s second of only two foals, the first being the ill-fated but black-type performed Pinkham, was Generation. A $575,000 Magic Millions purchase for Ciaron Maher &amp; Dermott Farrington on behalf of their respective clients, Colin McKenna and his syndicate and Canning Downs, Generation pleased Maher from day one. "It's one thing for them to look the part, but they&rsquo;ve got to be able to handle the whole process and the transition into stable life to ensure that they can do it on the track.&rdquo; Maher&rsquo;s assessment of Generation against that theory? &ldquo;He was completely bomb-proof from day one.&rdquo;
An undefeated city winning 2 year-old, dual Group 3 winning 3 year-old sprinter who was also Group 1 fourth in both the Moir and the William Reid. Generation&rsquo;s on track deeds certainly matched physique, outstanding looks and precocious pedigree, all of which were key factors in Lovatsville securing him.&nbsp;
&ldquo;We loved the fact that he was by Snitzel. A 4-time Champion stallion and sales ring goliath, who is now emerging as a sire-of-sires. In our minds he&rsquo;s got the pedigree, he&rsquo;s got the performance and he certainly has the looks and the physique. It mirror the profile of the Vinnie&rsquo;s and Tassort&rsquo;s in their formative years at stud. He is certainly worth a punt&rdquo; says Sam White, Lovatsville founder.&nbsp;
&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not a big horse but he has immense quality, great strength and a beautiful bit of sprinting scope to him. Physically I think breeders will enjoy mating to him, in that we will be able to add quality to some mares and tighten up some bigger, rangier styles that would genetically complement him too.&rdquo;
Generation will stand the 2024 breeding season at a fee of $11,000 (incl. GST) with extremely attractive breeding right packages available in him, providing great opportunity for broodmare farms and agents to utilise a pool of nominations for their clients.

(homepage) (generation) Good looking, well-bred and quick. What more could you want?

The Inglis Premier sale proved again this sales season that leading trainers love Fierce Impact's progeny. On completion of the Premier Sale, Fierce Impact had five yearlings go through the ring in Book 1 at an average of $132,500 - nearly 10x his service fee - with <a href="https://inglis.com.au/sale/2024-premier-yearling-sale?tab=catalogue&amp;selected_lot=22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a top price of $310,000 for Lot 22 ex Tinga.</a> Three more yearlings were offered in the Showcase session with two sold for an aggregate of $82,500 and an average of $41,250 - another healthy return on investment for breeders that supported the stallion. Overall across both books of the sale, eight Fierce Impact yearlings were offered and six sold at an average of $102,000! Trainers that have supported Fierce Impact so far include Ciaron Maher, Lindsay Park, Michael Freedman, Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, Nick Ryan, Andrew Noblet and Donna Logan; with his first crop in such good hands Fierce Impact's first crop will have every chance to make a big noise on the race track.

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