b4breeding

Here’s an opportunity to own and breed from a lovely 3yo filly from a super family, by Tintin In America.

Her name is American Vogue and she is from the Presidential Ball mare Style By The Mile.  My Australian readers might recognise that name Style By The Mile, because she is also the dam of Macintosh (61 starts, 14 wins to date, $127,518), mainly at Gloucester Park, and is a half-sister to Gomeo Romeo (53 starts, 13 wins, 12 places, $340,193).

This filly is qualified/very lightly raced, but is not being sold as a racing proposition.

• Lovely natured, good to handle
• Attractive, 15h, dark bay
• Family of Stylish Sweetheart, Sweet Talking Man, Gomeo Romeo, Wartime Sweetheart etc

The owners include Colin Harris, and he has asked me to put word out to see if anyone is interested in having her for breeding. He would love to breed from her himself, but can’t increase his numbers, and he most of all wants her to go to a good home and have the chance to breed on if possible. Talking to Colin, the reasons she didn’t race well seem to be around cross-firing (the usual gear and shoeing changes were tried) and she has totally switched off now as her last start shows when she broke hopelessly in the score up and clearly didn’t want to be there. Someone might want to put her out for a long spell and try again, or else start breeding her next season. She could even be broken in for riding in the meantime, as she is a good natured filly.

On the pedigree side of things, she is one of those really classic out-crosses, so you have a heap of options to play with in future. You could go to virtually any classy sire you want  -particularly from either Artsplace or Western Hanover lines, or link back to a Cam Fella or Warm Breeze or even Direct Scooter line. I think Tintin In America will add plenty of value in a broodmare’s pedigree.

American Vogue’s grandam is the very classy Stylish Sweetheart (74 starts, 12 wins, 20 places, $157,409) including a 3rd in the Sales Series 2yo Fillies Final, and an equal 2nd in the equivalent race for 3yos the next year. Stylish Sweetheart is a half-sister to Sweet Talking Man (68 starts, 12 wins, 13 places, $234,409), and another half-sister better know to my Australian readers will be the fantastic old campaigner Wartime Sweetheart (22 wins, 34 places, $284,936).

Contacts

Colin Harris: 021 316 437 – please deal direct with Colin if you are interested, not with me.

You could check out her racing issues with Brad Mowbray (021-0273-1270)

The filly is based in Canterbury.