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posted on 2 June, 2016

Lonhro mares tops broodmare sale at AUS$1,900,000

The $1,000,000 barrier was reached three times on Day One of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale yesterday with Group One-winning mare Bounding (Lonhro) sold to Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings for $1,900,000 to top the opening day. Agent John Moynihan, who purchased Bounding on behalf Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm, is optimistic that the five-year-old has the pedigree and race performance to potentially be a stallionproducing mare. “You never know that they are going to go right to that number, but I think she is a gorgeous mare with a gorgeous pedigree,” “It's rare to see a mare like that come up and I think moving forward she is the kind of mare that can produce the right kind of colt that, if he had real ability, could be a stallion and worth a lot of money.” Entering the ring as Lot 611, from the Willow Park Stud draft the bidding on Bounding opened at $1,000,000 before eventually being knocked down to Moynihan.

Winner of the 2014 Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) in New Zealand, Bounding went on to win the Heath 1000 Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) at Caulfield last August when transferred to the stable of Peter and Paul Snowden. Willow Tree Stud’s Glenn Burrows said the sale of Bounding was the culmination of a long-term plan which started when her dam, Believe’n’succeed (Exceed And Excel), was bought off the track and sent to Lonhro (Octagonal). Bounding is owned by Burrows’ client, New Zealand-based Gary Harding, who paid $425,000 for the mare as a yearling at the 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. “It is so much more special to have bought her dam off the track and planned the mating. Then to carry the Willow Park brand to not only a Group One win but champion sprinter status, it doesn’t get much better than that,” said Burrows.

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