Famous Americans Hill ‘n’ Dale have made their second major investment in the Australian industry in just a few months, spending A$800,000 (US$536,000) on an impressive investment. I am invincible dirty at the Magic Millions National Weaning Sale.
Bred and sold by the Hutchins family of Element Hill, who were dispersing their bloodline interests, Single Blonde’s departure prompted Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm to double its bloodline numbers . Agent William Johnson signed the docket on behalf of John and Jes Sikura, father and son of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm.
“[The Element Hill dispersal] has given everyone the opportunity to access some of the lovely pedigrees they have built up over the last 20 years and this filly has lovely form and she is considered the best stallion in the country, ” Johnson said. , you are trying to buy these types of fillies, so keeping her safe now is just a plus and hopefully she can reap the rewards in the future.
“We’ll let her grow up and then put her in training and hopefully bring some luck to the Sikura family.”
The prized daughter of I Am Invincible was the second of Single Blonde’s foals bred and stakes racing by Element Hill, she is a half-sister to group 3 winners Color and Boognish, who continued to push the page when she won the Group 3 Proud Miss Stakes in Adelaide for trainers Will Clarken and Niki O’Shea in her most recent start.
The coach for I Am Invincible is still undecided until next year.
Hill ‘n’ Dale’s entry into the Australian weanling market — four months after Sikuras made a splash at Magic Millions’ annual January sale — demonstrates the growing international market and willingness buyers’ appetite for quality racing prospects anywhere and anytime.
Sikuras joined trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott in January when they paid A$1.7 million for another top Australian sire I Am Invincible in Madam Rouge.
“It’s an endorsement for the Australian racing and breeding industry that someone like John Sikura and his family are investing in the game,” Johnson said. “They couldn’t get out of here, Jes was in college in Kentucky, he really wanted to make the trip. So I talked to him on the phone and it was about midnight there, so I Surely he will tell me.” telling his college friends tomorrow that he just bought a weanling in Australia.”
While Jes Sikura’s relationship with Johnson played a key role in Hill ‘n’ Dale’s investment in Australian industry, his father, John, took advantage of a dispersal sale in a different way. This is less than ten years. In 2014, he bought Taste Of Heaven, a half-sister to Redoute’s Choice, from Teeley Assets distribution at the Magic Millions National Broiler Sale for A$1.5 million.
The mare later sired Heavenly Curlin, a Canadian Grade 3 winning mare by Hill ‘n’ Dale sire curled up . She brought $625,000 when purchased by Justin Casse from the Hill ‘n’ Dale draft at the 2016 Keenelend September Yearling Sale.
Meanwhile, Single Blonde will be offered as Lot 964 in Thursday’s final session of the Magic Millions National Broiler Show.
