Starman ex Paddy Again colt
Shares Available - 68%
The following share prices include: Purchase price, sales house & bloodstock agents commission, 'GBB Bonus' registration (if applicable), vetting, transport and training fees until 28 Feb 2025:
25% share available @ £21,000 upfront and £835 per month from 1st March 2025
15% share available @ £12,600 upfront and £535 per month from 1st March 2025
10% share available @ £8,400 upfront and £360 per month from 1st March 2025
5% share available @ £4,200 upfront and £200 per month from 1st March 2025
2.5% share available @ £2,100 upfront and £102.50 per month from 1st March 2025
Race entries
We will be hosting our annual 2 year-old parade and viewing morning on Sunday 19th January at Richie McGrath’s Pre-Training Yard in Middleham, North Yorkshire. To book your place, and party size,
please email Kat or Jamie kat.middlehamparkracing@gmail.com, jamie.middlehamparkracing@gmail.com. We will then forward you further details in due course.
We want to see as many of you there as possible!
Quality & value for money, key ingredients for our owners!
Over the years, Tally Ho Stud have proven peerless in their stallion offerings, most notably in recent times, the World class KODIAC & MEHMAS - so when they launch, onto the market, their latest freshman sire STARMAN, we’d suggest it would pay to sit up and take note. There’s usually fabulous value to be had in a successful stallion’s first season.
Most trainers, agents in particular, and indeed owners as a whole, as a rule of thumb, make a lemming like pilgrimage to the most fashionable and proven sires, often at great expense and with little reward. A freshman or first season sire approach can often bear much greater fruit for those operating on a middle market budget, as do we at MPR - it’s an approach that’s served us particularly well in the past eg Lily’s Angel (Dark Angel), Shouldvbeenaring/Eddie’s Boy (Havana Grey). We’re always looking for value for our owners snd we’d like to think that’s what we’ve unearthed with this fabulous, quality colt, by the freshman, Group 1 winning, son of Dutch Art, sprinter STARMAN.
Out of a sprinting bred mare, and from family of champions, our imposing colt is already a half brother to the 106 rated sprinter LEODIS DREAM, so could prove the real deal SPEED on SPEED, bred at Tally Ho and heading to the recent Group 1 Nunthorpe winning trainer Archie Watson - what’s not to like?
We’d love to think he's another Eddie’s Boy (Weatherbys Super Sprint winner for Archie and ourselves 2022 - a race for which this colt qualifies) Eddie's Boy walks away with Super Sprint as revellers pack in for Craig David | Racing Post or of course Brave Emperor (multiple Group 2 & Group 3 winner for Archie and ourselves).
Watch his powerful walk below:
He’s a great stamp of a horse - looks like a sprinter - bred to be a sprinter - built like a quality animal - bred to be a quality animal. He should come together for April or Maytime 2025 but he’ll progress as the season opens up and as the better races present themselves; races like the lucrative HARRY'S HALF MILLION - a speedy 6f race at York, could be right down his street. Read all about this year's race here:
Harry Angel's Diligently Swoops Late To Snag Harry's Half Million Pot at York (thoroughbreddailynews.com)
Group races and/or sales races, hopefully they’ll both come alike to this loose moving, quality colt. £60,000 is a fair spend, of course, however, we’re pretty sure we’ve secured sensational value on the coat tails of his sire’s freshman status. Another fantastic bonus, he qualifies for a €10,000 'IRE' bonus, should he win a qualifying maiden or novice Stakes race in 2025. You can read more about how it works, here: https://www.itm.ie/Buying/Sales-Incentives/IRE-Incentive
The Racing Post spoke to Tim prior to the sale, read what he had to say here: ‘The harder you work this sale, the luckier you get’ – buyers bid to keep the romance alive as sales season rolls into Doncaster | Racing Post
Training Update (November 21st): Richie reports that he has now completed his conditioning work and has had his work slightly increased. A great colt,. Very straightforward. Watch for yourself:
Up the gallops:
Watch him cantering up the galopps:
15th of October:
"long-reining" around the farm (17th September):
Watch him cantering and trotting on the lunge: