The rising two-year-old half brother to Saturday’s most impressive feature race winner will go under the hammer at October’s Magic Millions National Horses in Training Sale.
Black and Bent extended his impressive winning streak he demoralised his rivals with a 12 length romp in the Australian Hurdle – bringing up win number 12.
The gelded son of Black Hawk is a most accomplished flat performer who’d beaten the best stayers Melbourne could offer over recent weeks prior to the weekend’s outstanding victory.
Connections plan to switch Black and Bent to the bigger fences as he prepares for a tilt at the world’s richest jumping event – the Nakayama Grand Jump.
Black and Bent’s half brother, the outstanding 13 time winner Some are Bent, has earned over $958,000 and was crowned Australia’s Champion Jumper in 2007.
They are two of the five winners produced by the former smart Adelaide racemare Summer Gambit – a daughter of Bestebreuje.
The Summerset Park based mare’s latest yearling, a chestnut colt by Barely a Moment, is being prepared for the country’s premier breeze up style sale at the Gold Coast later this year.
The team from Washpool Thoroughbred snapped up the colt when offered by breeders Rob and Maureen McBryde at March’s Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale.
The colt is by exciting young Lindsay Park freshman sire Barely a Moment – himself a star triple Group One winning Magic Millions graduate.
Already the sire of five first crop winners including the stakes placed city winner Life is a Cabernet, Barely a Moment has made a bright start to his career as a sire.
Washpool Thoroughbreds have a proud history of producing high quality ready mare racehorses at the National Horses in Training Sale.
The Washpool team purchased and prepared Shocking at the 2007 edition of the sale.
Purchased by Laurence Eales, Shocking has since established himself as one of the finest stayers in the country and famously won last year’s Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
Entries for the 2010 Magic Millions National Horses in Training Sale will close on July 30.
The breeze ups will be held in late September – a month before the auction is held at the Gold Coast Sales Complex.
