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Horses for sale (click to preview)

Bombora Downs provides Yearling Preparations for the Melbourne Yearling Sales as well as Weanling Preparations for the winter sales. These horses are available for sale prior to any attending the sales, and will be listed here for your perusal.

SIRE DAM NAME COLOUR / SEX / AGE SALE LOT #
Impending Larapineta   Bay / filly / yearling Premier (book 1) 39
Toronado (IRE) Dream Of Glory   Brown / filly / yearling Premier (book 1) 482
Toronado (IRE) Lady Rum Dum   Brown / filly / yearling Premier (book 2) 601
Bel Esprit Lorraine's Honour   Brown / filly / yearling Premier (book 2) 604
Brave Smash (JPN) Maree Basse (IRE)   Bay / colt / yearling Premier (book 2) 609
Bolt d'Oro (USA) Rub Doubt   Bay / colt / yearling Premier (book 2) 663
Toronado (IRE) Shaolin Belle   Bay / filly / yearling Premier (book 2) 676
Akeed Mofeed (GB) Stormsabrewing (NZ)   Chestnut / filly / yearling Premier (book 2) 691
Bel Esprit Bonne Nuit   Bay / colt / yearling Premier (book 2) 735
Bel Esprit Brinkley Bliss   Bay / filly / yearling Premier (book 2) 737
Highland Reel (IRE) Cybercyn   Brown / colt / yearling Premier (book 2) 756
Hallowed Crown Drakensberg   Bay colt / yearling Premier (book 2) 765

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Available Mares (click to preview)

There are times when you have a stallion service nomination but you don’t have the mare to use it on. Come and have a chat with us at Bombora Downs as we often have mares available on a yearly lease basis with no upfront costs. These mares are sourced from our own broodmare band or from clients who may not wish to breed this year. The pedigrees of the mares are varied so we are sure we can find one that will meet your requirements. Please have a look at the current list and give the Stud Office a call to discuss your requirements.

Conditions of Lease

The mare needs to remain at Bombora Downs for the duration of the Lease, except when being served. The Leasee will be responsible for:

  • all veterinary costs regarding the mare getting into foal, plus any transport and walk-on fees to the stallion of choice
  • all day to day husbandry costs for the mare plus resulting foal including treatments 
  • all vet costs associated with the foal.

Any extra-ordinary costs for example, colic surgery on the mare, will be met by the owner of the mare. The mare must be made available to the owner in the next breeding season for her to be served unless otherwise agreed. The lease will remain in place until the resultant foal is weaned.

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Cape of Good Hope

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  • A full brother to HIGHLAND REEL (IRE), winner of six Group 1’s, and a sire on the rise
  • By breed shaping sire GALILEO (IRE), 2001 European Champion Three-Year-Old plus leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 2008, then regaining the title from 2010 through to 2020.
  • Out of the blue hen mare HVEGER, a sister to Group 1 winner and sire ELVSTROEM, half-sister to Group 1 winner and sire HARADASUN, and three-quarter-sister to Group placed, Altius.
  • The winner of 3 races and over $1 million in stakes, with his first win coming as a 2yo over 1500m. 
  • A Group 1 winner at Caulfield over 2000m against the older horses in the MRC Caulfield Stakes
  • With Highland Reel out of the country, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE is an excellent alternative to access a hot pedigree at a very respectable price

Degaulle

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  • A son of super sire EXCEED AND EXCEL - Australian Champion Sprinter (2003/04) and Australian Champion Sire (2012/13). A sire of over 200 stakes winners worldwide (June 2023) while in Australia that currently sits at 118 stakes winners and growing.
  • From the G1 winning mare and blue-hen producer, RESPONSE (Charge Forward). 
  • A half-brother to Estijaab, winner of the 2018 Golden Slipper.
  • Another 4 half-siblings are individual winners including 2022 INGLIS Easter sale graduate ($2,250,000) Congregation, winner of his first two starts as a 2yo. 
  • De Gaulle was unraced. A tendon injury cut his career short following promising trials in training with Peter and Paul Snowden. 
  • From his first crop where he stood privately De Gaulle has had 10 to the races for 6 winners. 
  • De Gaulle presents a real opportunity for the 'breed to race' breeder to access high class bloodlines at an affordable price point.

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Frankel My Dear

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FRANKEL MY DEAR is the son of the unbeaten FRANKEL (GB) and BUENOS AIRES (IRE), a listed placegetter in France. BUENOS AIRES (IRE) is from an impressive family and is a half-sister to 3 stakes winners; twice Australian Horse of the Year and multiple Group 1 winner MIGHT AND POWER, Group 3 winner MATTER OF HONOUR and Listed winner BASTET (in France). And the Black Type continues with half-sisters going on to produce stakes winners in USA, France and Hong Kong. This is the family of Champion Miler 2003-04 of Hong Kong, LUCKY OWNERS, twice Group 1 winner MOSHEEN and multiple Group 2 winner TIME FOR WAR. As mentioned, a pedigree abounding in Black Type winners.

With this type of pedigree, it is no wonder FRANKEL MY DEAR made $500,000 at the 2016 INGLIS Easter Yearling Sale. To be trained by Robbie Laing who thought enough of him to take him straight to Flemington for his debut start over 1000m where he was beaten into 5th place by less than 2 lengths. Speaking later Laing said “He ran a couple of seconds in trials then won a trial and his run the other day was really good. The only time he's been a dill was when he ran at Flemington - he didn't know where he was and just lost his composure” (Racing.com) so not a bad effort in the end. For his second start, he was beaten less than 4 lengths in the MVRC Mitchell McKenzie Stakes at listed level. A couple of niggling issues curtailed his later 3-year-old racing career, but he broke through in the spring of 2018 with back-to-back wins at Cranbourne and Pakenham over 1200m. FRAKEL MY DEAR never reached his full potential due to throat surgery bur everyone thought he had tons of ability.