American mares have been a mainstay in Australia in terms of offering speed and outcross blood. They have produced the likes of Exceed and Excel, Foxwedge, Smart Missile, Northern Meteor, Russian Revolution and many more top-class performers. With that in mind we were keen to target the American broodmare sales this year, and were delighted to come away from the Fasig Tipton November Sale with two lovely broodmares.
Our first purchase was lot 204, the stakes-winning 2YO Miss Alacrity, a daughter of top-class USA stallion Munnings who was secured for $350,000. She was a ten-length winner on her debut in May (equivalent to November in Australia), before taking out a stakes race again by daylight on her very next start. She is out of Group 2 winner Just Jenda, and is also a half-sister to stakes winner Jenda’s Agenda, who is already the dam of a Group 3 winning 2YO this year, Just Cindy. Miss Alacrity will join the Rowsthorn family’s broodmare band at Morningside in Victoria, though will travel to Australia via the UK to be covered by Frankel Southern Hemisphere time.
Miss Alacrity
Our second purchase was for our Elite Broodmare Partnership, securing lot 285, Emro, for $425,000. Offered in foal to exciting young USA stallion Constitution, Emro was again a precocious 2YO stakes winner and an outstanding physical, with tremendous strength and quality. Constitution has made a great start at stud, and will stand for a fee of US$110,000 in 2023. Emro will foal down in Kentucky and then also head over to the UK to be covered by Frankel Southern Hemisphere time before coming to Australia.
Emro