Taking a New Approach to success

With only four yearlings by New Approach catalogued for the 2012 Magic Millions yearling sale, there was not a huge array of yearlings on offer, but nonetheless, buyers were still very keen to purchase the stock of one of Darley’s first-season sire.

Selling up to $250,000 and averaging $172,500 for three yearlings sold, New Approach ended the main session of the sale as the leading first-season sire based on averages, an excellent achievement for the stallion.

Limited to covering only small books of mares each season, the downside is that there will never be a huge array of yearlings by the flashy chestnut available at public auction. As we head to the Inglis  Premier yearling sale at the end of February, we not the high quality of his draft.

Vendor of the top-priced New Approach yearling at the Magic Millions was Mill Park, and they look likely to once again be amongst the action, consigning lots 265 and 268. The first through the ring is a chestnut colt out of the Storm Bird mare Stormy Flyer. A half-brother to the Listed winner Storm Rolling In, this colt offers breeders a very international pedigree.

Only a few lots later Mill Park will once again offer another chestnut colt, this time out of the Stakes performed Second Empire mare Sequential. Receiving a significant pedigree updated after the catalogue went to print, Moving Money, the first foal to the races from the mare, was successful in the recent running of the Listed Tasmanian Guineas.

Late on day two of the sale, arguably one of the better bred colts from the first-crop of New Approach is the Shadow Glen consigned Lot 399. Out of the Wild Again mare Attire, this bay colt is a half-brother to dual G1-winning Champion two-year-old Redoute’s Choice filly Fashions Afield.

Scone based Glastonbury Farms will offer lot 550, a chestnut colt out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Future Choice. The mare has had one to the races, that being the recent G3 Champion Fillies Stakes-winning Lonhro filly Eight Till Late.

Another yearling sure to create plenty of interest is the final New Approach offering at the sale, lot 606. Consigned by Wood Nook Farm, the chestnut filly is a half-sister to the G1 Toorak Handicap winner Marble Halls, as well as a close relation to the G1 Blue Diamond heroine Sleek Chassis.

With the progeny of the Darley stallions accounting for close to 17% of the Inglis Premier yearling sale catalogue, there is bound to be a yearling that can cater for everyone. If you would like any further information on any of the progeny by the Darley stallions, please contact the Nominations Team by clicking here, or access the Dazzling Sons website, which features Darley’s First-Season sires – Authorized, New Approach, Street Boss and Teofilo, by clicking here.