Cosmic Force
Cosmic Force has become the latest racetrack star to retire from the racing programme of the China Horse Club and its partners with an announcement made that the crack colt will join the roster of Australia’s Newgate Farm.
Cosmic Force, a record-breaking group winning two-year-old and three-year-old, will join fellow former CHC colour bearers Russian Revolution, Dissident, Extreme Choice and Super One as well as his own sire Deep Field at the Hunter Valley based nursery. The striking colt shares a similar profile to his illustrious sire Deep Field and he is being priced to ensure he will be exceedingly popular in his maiden season at stud.
“You’ve got a horse here that’s going to stud, just like Deep Field, he’s a Group 2 winner, he’s a race record holder, he holds the record for a winning margin in a two-year-old Group race in Australia this millennium,” Newgate’s director of stallions Bruce Slade told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday.
“So, he’s obviously shown plenty of X-factor and he retires to stud at $15,000 plus GST which I think will be seen as value by the market.
“We’re delighted with the job that Deep Field is doing and it’s terrific to think that, from his first crop, he’s already got a commercial stallion prospect in Cosmic Force going to stud this year. He’s just a young stallion that’s obviously a leading second crop stallion, he’s the leading sire of three-year-old winners in Australia and, on the data that we look at, he’s certainly on track to make his mark in the stallion ranks of Australia for a long time.
“We believe that Deep Field is going to be at Newgate for a long time and he’s going to be a very important contributor to the foundation of Newgate and its long-term success.”
Deep Field
At his very best Cosmic Force was an explosive sprinter. His near 7.5 length domination of the time-honoured G3 Pago Pago Stakes was the largest winning margin in a juvenile group race since 2000 and rightly ensured he would start favourite in the 2019 Golden Slipper. While his triumph in the G2 Roman Consul Stakes in race record time saw his account for G1 winners Microphone and Standout and etch his name onto an honour roll of high-profile stallions including Russian Revolution, Exosphere, Brazen Beau, Zoustar, Foxwedge, Fastnet Rock and Exceed and Excel.
“We’ve gone back to the beginning of the millennium to see if there’s been a two-year-old stakes race won by a bigger margin than seven lengths and there hasn’t been,” Slade added.
“He holds the record for the biggest winning margin of a Group race for juveniles in Australia and that was just a demonstration of the X-factor that was a hallmark of his career.
“He [also] broke the race record in the Roman Consul, a race that has proven to be a stallion-launching race. On the back of that, he started one of the favourites for the Coolmore as well. He’s a horse that the market certainly rated a proper Group 1 horse and he retires to stud, much like Deep Field, not having won his Group 1 but having shown real X-factor in his brief career.”
Cosmic Force was the highest-priced colt from the initial crop of Deep Field’s yearlings.
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