Yarraman Park’s young Danehill (USA) stallion Foreplay is set to create a favourable impression at the Inglis First Season Sire Showcase at Newmarket this week with some ten weanlings catalogued for sale.
An eye-catching son of a champion sire, Foreplay lacks for nothing on the score of pedigree or performance and given the quality of his weanlings must be given a great chance of making it at stud.
“He is a superb looking horse himself and has some very nice weanlings as you would expect,” said Harry Mitchell.
“I’ve heard good reports on a number of youngsters coming to the sale and we have a couple ourselves including one from the stakes-winner Promise Me, who is a really lovely filly.”
A superbly credentialed son of legendary sire Danehill (USA), Foreplay was a $625,000 purchase from the 2003 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale making him the fourth highest priced yearling colt sired by Danehill at that sale.
A stakes-winner over 1100 metres, Foreplay was also Group One placed behind glamour gallopers Alinghi and Fastnet Rock in the prestigious Newmarket Handicap, widely considered to be the best sprint event in the country.
The commercial value of Foreplay and his family is beyond question, with his dam Procrastinate selling at the 2007 Inglis Australian Select Broodmare Sale for $660,000, while her yearling colt by Redoute’s Choice made $2million at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year knocked down to John Ferguson Bloodstock for Darley Australia.
His half-sister Personify was the star attraction at the Inglis Broodmare Sale this year fetching $2million in foal to Redoute’s Choice, so it’s a family that is not only successful right now, but also has the scope to improve even further.
