The Australia x Falling Petals filly (Lot 15)
The withering burst that carried Saffron Beach to an extraordinary win in the time honoured £250,000 G1 Sun Chariot Stakes could hardly have been better times. The China Horse Club bred filly’s display coming just four days ahead of Britain’s premier yearling sale when her half-sister is set to go under the hammer.
The Australia x Falling Petals filly (Lot 15) will trade tomorrow (Tuesday) in the opening hour of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Popular before Saturday’s immense update, interest in her has naturally grown.
Saffron Beach is the third individual G1 winning graduate from China Horse Club’s international breeding programme and its first for its European division. Her success follows that of fellow G1 graduates Valiance (2020) and Kimari (2021) in the United States. For a breeding programme that remains in its infancy, the surfacing of a performer of such quality is a heady result. Saffron Beach, already a G2 winner and G1 placed prior to the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes, joins a growing list of graded stakes winners across major international markets including Britain, Ireland, USA and Australia.
“Saffron Beach has been a standout performer throughout her career and her win in the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes was well deserved,” said Michael Wallace, Chief Operating Officer of the China Horse Club.
“Her half-sister by Australia has many of the same characteristics as Saffron Beach. She has a good physical and a wonderful temperament and is taking the challenges of sales inspection in her stride.
“It is also a wonderful result for New Bay, a stallion that China Horse Club has believed in from the start. His stock is starting to come into their own in their classic year and the emergence of a G1 winner for New Bay a reflection of his quality.”
The Australia x Falling Petals will sell under the Ballylinch Stud draft, just as Saffron Beach did. The Coolmore based Australia is also riding a wave with a raft of exceptional performers surfacing over the last 12-18 months. Australia is now the sire of no less than four individual G1 winners as well as the highly promising juvenile Pointe Lonsdale, winner of this year’s G2 Futurity Stakes at the Curragh and runner-up in the G1 National Stakes last month.
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