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Xtravagant x Tiffin

In Training Now - Xtravagant Colt With Rob Heathcote

A son of Xtravagant, the multiple Gr.1 winning and Champion NZ 3yo who has had an outstanding start to his stud career producing next to 10% Stakes winners to winners. He’s an athletic and well put together colt that moves well, and he’s going to continue to develop into a very nice style of horse at 3. His dam has already produced a Stakes winner. This sprinter miler ticks a lot of our boxes.

BY XTRAVAGANT – A SIRE ON THE UP AND UP
We’ve been looking at all the Xtravagant’s we could this year trying to find the right horse at the right price and we’ve done it with this colt.

Why? Any stallion producing around 10% Stakes-winners to winners is moving into the elite league. Xtravagant is an athletic, well-bred and well-performed young stallion that is making a big impact in the early stages of his career. As a racehorse he was named New Zealand’s champion 3yo and in so doing was the highest rated 3yo since Bonecrusher. It’s worth watching his destruction of the Group 1 fields in the NZ Guineas and the NRM Sprint (beating five individual Group 1 winners) both by 8 length and widening margins.

A third-season stallion with fewer than 100 runners, he’s produced over 50 winners including:

Xtravagant Star: $1.2MIL – Listed Inglis Millennium
Devoted: $337k – won Listed Belmont Guineas
Lavish Girl: $451k – won Group 2 Armanasco Stakes, second in the How Now Group 2 and Hot Danish Group 2
He’s Xceptional: $300k won Listed McKenzie
Arts: $150k – won Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes
Results like this have seen his service fee double from $11k to $22k and his book of mares increase from 49 mares covered in 2021 to 141 in 2022.

His progeny has been selling for up to $360k this year and have been purchased by leading judges such as Gai Waterhouse, Gerald Ryan, Gary Portelli, Bjorn Baker and Ciaron Maher.

Xtravagant is a son of Pentire, a champion racehorse with a Timeform of 132 at three and four years of age. He was a dual Group 1 winner of the Irish Champion Stakes and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. In his stud career, Pentire was crowned Champion New Zealand stallion siring 16 individual Group 1 winners, nine of them won at the elite level in Australia. His Progeny include 10-time Group 1 winner King Mufhasa, New Zealand horse of the year Xcellent and Prince of Penzance – winner of the Melbourne Cup – to name a few.

Xtravagant is also out of a Zabeel mare who is out of a Centaine mare, meaning you’ve hit solid ground when it comes to the bloodlines that have made New Zealand a nursery of champions.

OUT OF TIFFIN – A STAKES PRODUCING MARE
Evidence has shown time and time again that mares that could gallop are the best producers. Another way to reduce risk is to buy from mares that have already produced good horses. We often stick to these principles, and this good-looking colt ticks both boxes – he’s out of Tiffin, a mare who performed up to Saturday metropolitan level in Sydney and has produced high quality gallopers.

Her son, Lightinthenite, was the winner of eight races and a metropolitan winner at Canterbury, Rosehill, Randwick and Caulfield winning the Group 3 Coongy and running fourth in the Group 1 Epsom. She also produced Singular Sensation who won her first start at two by 4 lengths before dominating a Doomben Saturday field, winning by a margin of 3 lengths. Unfortunately Singular Sensation was injured and we never got to see her reach her full potential, but her early form suggests she was destined for big things.

Tiffin is a daughter of Grand Lodge (a son of Chief’s Crown, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Eclipse 2yo of the Year) who was rated Europe’s best 2yo after winning the sire-making Group1 Dewhurst Stakes. Grand Lodge had a short career at stud after succumbing to a paddock injury as a 12yo, but it was in the breeding barn his value was truly realised. He produced 12 individual Group 1 winners including Sinndar, the Champion 3yo old in Europe (winning the English and Irish Derby’s as well as Arc de Triomphe), Shogun Lodge (winner of the Epsom, George Main Stakes and Queen Elizabeth Stakes), Freemason (winner of the TJ Smith Stakes and Queensland Derby), Lovelorn (winner of the VRC Oaks) and Grand Zulu (winner of the BMW) to name a few.

Tiffin’s dam, Discriminate, was a winner at Randwick and placed second in the Group 2 Magic Night Stakes. Discriminate was by Marauding ,the Golden Slipper-winning son of Sir Tristram. She was successful in the breeding barn producing six winners including the Stakes winners Major and Happen.

– Multiple Gr1 winning and hands on trainer, Paul Jenkins to train.

– Monthly fees are $210 from the 1st December 2023 and all-inclusive.

– Contact us to secure your share or to ask any questions you may have.