26 February 2018 | Trots Media – Peter Wharton
The $55,000 Australian record for a trotting yearling sold at auction is expected to be surpassed at this year’s Pryde’s EasiFeed Australasian Premier Trotting Sale to be held at Tabcorp Park Melton on Sunday March 11.
A full-brother to the new Australasian mile record holder, Maori Time (Tr 1:51.5), Aldebaran Stephan will go under the hammer as Lot 55.
Maori Time blitzed her rivals in the weekend’s Group 1 Trotters Mile at Menangle for Brent Lilley and Todd McCarthy, taking her stake earnings to $419,801 and delivering connections a third Group 1.
Lot 55 is the lynchpin of a 12-strong Aldebaran Park consignment, of Duncan McPherson, Nagambie.
The grand looking colt is out of 2016-17 Victorian Broodmare of the Year Sundonna, a member of the famous Maori Miss tribe.
Sundonna also figures as the dam of the talented Maori Law Tr 1:58.8 ($86,669), the winner of 12 of his 15 starts to date, and the Group 1 placed Happy Maori Tr 1:59.6 ($89,365), and the grand-dam of the dual Group 1 placegetter Meadow Valley Road (Tr 1:56.3).
The colt’s pedigree abounds in black type with close relatives including the Inter Dominion champion Sumthingaboutmaori, former trotting icon Noopy Kiosk, Tennotrump, Maori Princess and Skye Rocket, to name only a few.
Pegasus Spur, the colt’s sire, has been successful at stud in the USA, New Zealand and Australia over the last decade. Among his best performers have been Flying Isa (Tr 1:53.2, $506,554), the former Australasian record holder and a Breeders Crown champion, Breeders Crown winners Paramount Geegee (Tr 1:57.3, $520,741), Speeding Spur (Tr 1:55.5 $699,060) and Wilmas Mate (Tr 1:55.5, $329,214), and in America, Daylon Miracle (Tr 1:50.6, $624,457) and Rembrandt Spur (Tr 1:52.4, $717,948).
For an inspection phone Danny and Melinda Thackeray on 0458 477 486.
Visit the website for more details on the Pryde’s EasiFeed Australasian Premier Trotting Sale, which houses the catalogue and phone numbers for other vendors.
To read more about the Lots on offer at the sale, click here.
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