Gun Hinchinbrook Son in the Spotlight

In the same season as his champion sire Fastnet Rock (Danehill) finished – incredibly – runner-up on both the Australian and New Zealand Black Type Sire Premierships, ill-fated stallion Hinchinbrook’s final crop of 2YOs produced four individual stakes horses in 2020-21. With his dual Gr1-winning miler son Press Statement doing a sterling job at stud to date at Vinery Stud, it’s now the turn of one of Hinchinbrook’s most precocious juvenile sons to make his own mark. That exciting journey for Unite and Conquer (Hinchinbrook-Maglissa, by Magnus) has started with the birth of his first foal, a filly out of stakes-performed 2YO Shamurt (Murtajill). A prodigiously muscled and precocious 2YO who was favoured to win the Magic Millions 2YO Classic after effortlessly winning his first two races, the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stks at Flemington and RL Magic Millions Wyong Classic, before Christmas, Unite and Conquer is out of a daughter of Danglissa, winner of the Gr1 Flight Stakes and runner-up in the Gr1 Thousand Guineas. With excellent breeder support at Kingstar Farm in his debut season, Unite and Conquer’s immediate family is going from strength to strength. From the same damline as bullet-like juvenile Profiteer (Capitalist), his 3YO half-brother So United (So You Think) won in Sydney in 2020-21, whilst his 2YO half-brother Mission Value (Capitalist) was stakes-placed in 2020-21 on debut (in his only start) for trainer Mark Newnham. Unite and Conquer stands his second season at Kingstar Farm for $6,600 inc GST.

Unite and Conquer-Shamurt filly (pic: supplied)