Impressive draft of yearlings at APTS Sale - February 2019
By Peter Wharton
Watch out for the Aldebaran Park consignment at the Australasian Premier Trotting Sale at Oaklands Junction on Sunday, March 10!
We are offering 18 yearlings – 10 colts and eight fillies – by 10 different sires including exciting first-crop sire Father Patrick, Majestic Son, Muscle Hill, Love You, Muscle Mass, Andover Hall, world champion Sebastian K, leading USA first-crop sire Trixton and our resident stallions SKYVALLEY and YIELD BOKO.
The Aldebaran Park draft features:
- Half-brother to Aust. 2YO Filly Trotter of the Year Kyvalley Kyrie
- Colt out of the Victoria Trotters Derby winner Jingling Silver
- Filly from the Group 3 winner Ushaka Bromac NZ
- Filly out of a full sister to Allegro Agitato and SKYVALLEY
- Half-sister to Cold Sister
- Half-brother to Aldebaran Pete (Abrahams 2YO Classic)
- Colt from a full sister to YIELD BOKO
- First foal of Aldebaran Daisy (8 wins)
- Filly out of a half-sister to Cold Sister
SKYVALLEY left seven individual winners for the month and has now sired 22 winners and $592,089 progeny earnings for the 2018/19 season. He is in second position on the Australian All-aged Sire list.
SKYVALLEY led in a winning double at Melton on February 23 with champion Tornado Valley NZ, who led most of the way in the Group 1 $50,000 The Knight Pistol with a last 800 in 57.6, and the highly promising Aldebaran Park-bred On Fast Forward (ex Aldebaranfavourite), who led throughout to notch his sixth lifetime success.
It was the fourth win at Group 1 level for Tornado Valley NZ and stretched his unbeaten winning sequence this season to nine. He has banked $469,887.
Another Aldebaran Park-bred, Aldebaran Kiri (ex Maori Road), overcame a 30 metre handicap to post her seventh win at Terang.
Kash Valley, a six-year-old mare and one of SKYVALLEY’s second New Zealand crop, won consecutive races at Oamaru and Dunedin and looks to have a very bright future.
Other SKYVALLEY winners in February were Skyflyer, who captured the time-honoured Gawler Hambletonian Trotters Cup, Flash Kyvalley (Melton) and Miss Invasion, who won a heat of Jim McNeil Memorial at Albion Park.
The Swedish horse YIELD BOKO was credited with his fifth winner from six starters when the four-year-old gelding Godofthunder saluted for the first time at Horsham.
To cap a great month, Sun Swinger, a five-year-old mare part-owned by Aldebaran Park, broke maiden ranks at only her third start at Oamaru (NZ) in late February. The dam of Sun Swinger is a half-sister to the mother of the 2019 NZ 2YO Trotting Colt/Gelding of the Year Enhance Your Calm, whose successes included the Jewels, NZ Sires Stakes Final and NZ Trotting Stakes, all Group races.