High Class Sire Recruits for Kooringal Stud

Impeccably bred stakes-winner Sandbar (Snitzel-Tallow, by Street Cry) will add further quality to Kooringal Stud’s stallion roster in 2021. The three-quarter brother to Golden Slipper winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) has arrived at Kooringal in readiness to stand his first season. The $650,000 price tag for Sandbar at the 2017 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale was justified with dual stakes wins in Sydney as a 2 and 3YO. Sandbar was only beaten 4-lengths in Estijaab’s Golden Slipper of 2018. Placings in the Gr2 Roman Consul at Randwick, a close second to Written By in the Gr3 Pago Pago Stakes and a 1.5-length fourth to champion The Autumn Sun in the Golden Rose were other track highlights. Sandbar finished with four wins and more than $520,000 prizemoney to his credit. Sandbar’s Gr3-winning dam Tallow has also produced Farnan, whose crowning glory from five wins as a 2YO was the $3.5 million Golden Slipper in 2020. Sandbar joins Frankel’s son Last Kingdom (ex Compelling, by Kingmambo) as newcomers to the Wagga-based stud this year. Imported Last Kingdom boasts top-shelf bloodlines being by undefeated world champion and brilliant stallion Frankel. His dam is the Kingmambo mare Compelling, who has three winners from as many to race including the stakes-placed Ivyetsu. Last Kingdom emphasised his class by winning three of his first five appearances at Maisons-Lafitte in France, completing his hat-trick in the black-type Prix Daphnis (1800m). Victories as an older horse in Hong Kong at Happy Valley and Sha Tin lifted Last Kingdom’s prizemoney close to $700,000. Sandbar will stand at an introductory price of $8,800 (inc GST) while Last Kingdom’s fee will be $6,600 (inc GST).

Sandbar debuts at Kooringal Stud in 2021 (pic: Steve Hart)