PROISIR
Brilliant Group 1 performed Australian three-year-old and promising young sire
CHOISIR (AUS) – PROPHET JEWEL (AUS),
by Encosta de Lago • 2009 • Brown 16.1 hh
2024 Service Fee – $80,000+ Gst
OVERVIEW
- Leading NZ Sire at Karaka 2024. Sold up to $1.6 million, averaging $275,000.
- Australasia’s Leading Group One Sire for 2022/23. Click to View
- NZ’s Leading Sire & Leading 3YO Sire for 2022/23. Click to View
- Sired from first 230 runners: Group 1 winners PROWESS, LEGARTO, LEVANTE, DARK DESTROYER, PIER, also Group 1 placed RIODINI, VANCOOGA, FEEL THE RUSH, WAITAK, ASPEN COLORADO.
- The best is yet to come with Proisir’s better-quality mares bred the last three seasons.
PEDIGREE
- Proisir’s sire CHOISIR was a trailblazing international racehorse and is now a highly successful dual hemisphere sire. Choisir has demonstrated he can consistently sire the ‘big horse’ worldwide with 95 stakes winners, including 11 Group 1 winners such as horses like Starspangledbanner, Olympic Glory (Ire), Obviously (Ire), Sacred Choice, Japonisme, Divine Prophet and The Last Lion (Ire).
- Proisir’s full brother DIVINE PROPHET won the stallion making Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas. Standing at Aquis Farm, his first crop progeny sold exceptionally well and race as two-year-olds in 2020/21.
PERFORMANCE
- Proisir was a star Australian three-year-old in what proved a vintage year and included star gallopers the likes of Pierro, All Too Hard, Dundeel, Norzita and Rebel Dane.
- His six length win in the Gr.3 Spring Stakes came at his sixth start led to Proisir starting as hot favourite against Dundeel in the Gr.1 Spring Champion Stakes. The two unbeaten colts created a great spectacle fighting out the finish, Proisir within a short-neck of Dundeel at the winning post.
- Proisir and Dundeel met again in the autumn contesting the Gr.1 Randwick Guineas. Proisir running him to a half-length, and with Group 1 winning colts Sacred Falls, Ferlax, and Rebel Dane chasing the pair three-plus lengths in behind.