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8 Stallion Proifle - Niagara There is excitement in Colm Santry's voice as he talks about 's 2020 addition to the roster, Everest hero and 3Y0 .

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Australia’s Magazine 9 SCHEMATIC LAYOUT OF THE YES YES YES / REDOUTE’S CHOICE broad cross NOTE: REDOUTE’S CHOICE and SLIDING CUBE are 3/4 siblings Rubick Rock of Gibraltar by Sliding Cube YES YES YES Shantha’s Choice Sin Sin Sin Steam Heat

mare by Danehill REDOUTE’S CHOICE or sons Shantha’s Choice

10 Stallion Profile "A beautiful colt, quality. I galloped him last week and he gave me goosebumps, today he has given me electric shocks. I couldn't believe the turn of speed he showed. I wary of these great sprinters, you can't give them too much of a start... but he flew."

A high class sprinter, an eye-catching type, a speed "Three others of his age were given that same rating behind. This was shaping to be the best sprinting pedigree of considerable depth; Yes Yes Yes is a but all had the advantage of racing on through the three-year-old form but could it be taken to horse that ticks all the boxes and it seems that rest of their three-year-old season, and all have another level against the strongest and fastest of the breeders across the country agree, the son of gone on to highly successful stud careers; , older horses? Rubick in his first season at stud serving an and Snitzel." It was in that this question would be impressive harem of 205 mares. Also crowned Australian Champion 3Y0 Colt, Yes answered in convincing style by Yes Yes Yes who, And he has 22 in foal who are either stakes winners Yes Yes is the equal third highest rated from barrier nine settled back in running, charging or the dams of stakes winners, including one of three-year-old spring sprinting colt this century, home over the top of his rivals. Another record in 's best producers Pretty Penny whose sharing that honour with and a feature race, his 1.07.3 second the fastest 1200m seven foals (including the Group winners Bel Esprit; ahead of and even run at Randwick. Sertorius, Clifton Red, Dollar For Dollar and on 124. In doing so he provided some career highlights Pretty Brazen) have all earned black-type. Being by Rubick out of a Fantastic Light mare, it for a trainer and jockey combination who already A quality book indeed but also of great interest is can be assumed that Yes Yes Yes would have been knew what it was like to be on top of the just how many of the mares he served have an improver should he have raced on but an injury racing world. pedigrees who align so well with his own and (tendon lesion) incurred during a trial sadly "He will always been the first colt to whilst he is an easy stallion to match up, there is brought a premature end to his racing career. And The Everest," Chris Waller proudly stated whilst one line that has Santry particularly excited. so we only had him for eight starts, but it was was his usual effervescent self, ready Redoute's Choice. enough to see that he was rather special. with enthusiastic praise for the colt he rode in just One of Australia's premier sire of sires, importantly Kicking off his career for the Darren Weir stable in one race. Redoute's Choice is a son of the wonderful mare early December 2018, Yes Yes Yes was an "A beautiful colt, quality. I galloped him last week Shantha's Choice, grandam of Yes Yes Yes' encouraging second in a two-year-old contest at and he gave me goosebumps, today he has given sire Rubick. Moonee Valley, easily winning his next two at me electric shocks. I couldn't believe the turn of It is still early days for Shantha's Choice as a line- Flemington and Moonee Valley, all within that speed he showed. I was wary of these great breeding subject but the early signs are same month. sprinters, you can't give them too much of a start... encouraging with stakes wins for Summer Sham A solid achievement for a horse still in the first half but he flew." (by out of a granddaughter of of his two-year-old season. And that form was And 17 months on Boss remains impressed, happy Shantha's Choice), Jamaican Rain and Manhattan strong enough to see Yes Yes Yes, who had since to compare Yes Yes Yes favourably to the best he Street (by Rubick's 3/4 brother Manhattan Rain out headed to Chris Waller, start one of the favourites has ridden. of a Redoute's Choice mare) and Meuse (by Snitzel in the Todman Stakes-Gr.2, 1200m, a race in out of a granddaughter of Shantha's Choice). "He was a proper horse that's for sure! When you which he recorded a dominant victory after saw him in the enclosure he looked like a panther Forty, or 19.5%, of the first group of mares sent to swinging widest into the straight. and he gave me an amazing feel. I have ridden Yes Yes Yes have Redoute's Choice in their In doing so he broke the race record, clocking bloodlines; eleven of his daughters, eight by some of the best colts of recent years, the likes of 1.8.40 seconds in a race that has been won by the Snitzel, three by Not A Single Doubt, three by Snitzel, So You Think, Fastnet Rock and Choisir likes of Vancouver, Criterion, Pierro, Written Stratum, two by Sizzling, one each by Squamosa, and he was right up there with them. They were all Tycoon, Exceed And Excel, General Nediym, Master Of Design and Drumbeats whilst another outstanding athletes who have been able to pass Octagonal, Tierce, Marauding and . ten are out of Redoute's Choice mares. that athleticism to their progeny and I am sure Yes "It was then that he really captured Coolmore's Yes will do the same." "It can be said that Redoute's Choice is key to the attention," Santry recalled and within a couple of success of Yes Yes Yes," Santry said, well aware that Such a fan that he continues to visit Yes Yes Yes at line-breeding to this prolific Best In Show family weeks of the Todman it was announced that the Coolmore, and so confident in his stud prospects has proven a success around the globe. stud had taken an interest in the handsome bay in that he has sent his own mare to him, Boss is still time for his crack at the Golden Slipper Stakes- And he hopes that will prove to be the case for Yes following the form around him. "When I rode him Gr.1, 1200m. Yes Yes whose book also included 23 mares with he was still 12 months off being fully furnished and other Best In Show family strains including Try My The only time he finished out of the first two it is mind boggling how fast he was then! I look at Best, Al Maher, Hurricane Sky, Spinning World, during his stellar career, Yes Yes Yes drew the what is doing now and I think of what Gielgud, and and well as outside gate (16) with the heavy going dampening might've been." several direct descendants. his turn of foot. "His sectional figures in The Everest were Part of the Santry's passion for Yes Yes Yes is the "He was lengths last and just hated the going but unbelievable, showing the incredible sustained fact that he is very much a Coolmore product. He he still managed to finish off for a brave seventh." speed to break 11 seconds for four consecutive is by Coolmore's still young and emerging stallion Back bigger and stronger in the spring with a first 200m sectionals and running his final 600m in Rubick, in turn son of one of the international up Run To The Rose-Gr.2, 1200m second splitting 32.61. He was arguably the world's best sprinter at stud's most successful locally bred horses Encosta future Group One sprinters Bivouac (who had the time." he said. de Lago whose sire Santry brought to been fourth in the Todman) and Exceedance. "They were the best sprinters in Australia," Waller Australian in 1992. "Bivouac had the fitness advantage being third up," noted in the wake of the Everest and there is no And of course he is a very talented member of this Santry noted, "and it was a terrific effort by Yes Yes doubting the quality of the race, with ten of the emerging branch of the sire line. Yes, and an even better one next time out stepping other 11 runners being Group One winners; "Timeform awarded him a very high spring rating up to 1400m at only his second run back." between them Santa Ana Lane (the runner-up with of 125 as a three-year-old," Santry said, noting that The Golden Rose-Gr.1, 1400m was the race, Yes jockey Mark Zahra reporting that "the winner the young horse this despite not racing in Yes Yes gallant behind Bivouac, only just surprised me a bit with how quickly he went"), the autumn. beaten with Exceedance another half length Trekking, Nature Strip, Pierata, Alizee, Redzel, In

Australia’s Thoroughbred Magazine 11 Her Time, Sunlight, Arcadia Queen and Ten Whilst we have already highlighted the great combines nicely with his 3/4 brother Sovereigns racking up 28 victories at the elite level. benefit that is the Best In Show influence, Yes Yes and six of Yes Yes Yes' mares carry a strain of that And interesting about the running of that race was Yes has other pedigree strengths and breeders are Irish & -Gr.1, 12f star. that all Everest winners took part; Redzel winning taking note of those. His grandsire Encosta de Lago As noted Yes Yes Yes won the race named in the first two and successful is a son of Fairy King, brother to Sadler's Wells and honour of Todman (in record time) and that in 2020. 3/4 brother to . legendary speedster's Blue Diamond Stakes-Gr.1, It was a great shame for involved that it would be 42 of the mares served by Yes Yes Yes last spring 1200m winning son Blazing Saddles is Sin Sin Yes Yes Yes' final start, Chris Waller telling boast a Nureyev strain within six generations Sin's second dam sire. Todman's dam Oceana is an Bluebloods that "he was a very exciting horse just whilst another 37 have Sadler's Wells; and excellent line-breeding subject and other strains getting to his peak. If we'd had him for a bit longer amongst that tally are several who have both. can be in eight of Yes Yes Yes' mates. he could've achieved some amazing things." Meanwhile there were three members of this this Danehill's third dam , of course also dam Royal Ascot had been mentioned for Yes Yes Yes famed 'footwear' family and several with other of Northern Dancer, features in several matings, and there is no doubt that he would've proven an strains of it via , Jade Robbery, , mainly via whilst Fantastic Light's excellent representative of the Australian breed at Geiger Counter, Smart Missile, Lt Stevens, dam Jood is in two. The multiple Group One that world renowned carnival. Northern and Perugino. winner , dam of Fantastic Light's sire Yes Yes Yes headed to stud as the winner of over Encosta de Lago has crossed nicely with his close , is in a Helmet (out of a mare by Rahy's half- $7.1 million, a tidy return on his $200,000 relation Flying Spur (the excellent mare Rolls brother ) mare whilst other impending yearling sale price tag. It was at the 2018 Gold duplicated) who appears in the pedigrees of 15 foals will boast crosses of the fine mares Square Coast Magic Millions that he caught the eye of mares in Yes Yes Yes' debut book. Meanwhile the Angel, What A Treat, and Jesmond John Foote where he was the sixth highest priced family from which Rolls hails features Lass as well as Yes Yes Yes' ten times winning third Rubick of that sale. in the pedigrees of another six of his 2020 mares. dam Supaburn. One of three winners for the three times winning Rubick is out of a mare by Rock Of Gibraltar who Well supported by not only Coolmore and Fantastic Light mare Sin Sin Sin (debut winner hails from the family of Riverman who makes an shareholders, Yes Yes Yes has multiple foals coming of the Wellington Boot), Yes Yes Yes is a half- appearance in 20 of the mares Yes Yes Yes served for such leading breeders as Daisy Hill Farm, brother to the stakes placed multiple city winner last spring whilst another 15 have Riverman's sire Glenn Burrows, Lindsay Park, the Kelly Family, Dee Nine Elle. whose half-brother is the Prime , Clairden Racing, Anthony Sin Sin Sin is one of 13 winners (from as many dam sire of Encosta de Lago's sire Fairy King; the Cummings, Kate Nivison, Fairhill Farm, the to race) for the unraced Salieri mare Steam Heat, -Gr.1, 9f winner duplicated. Ingham Family, David Moodie, Robert McClure, also dam of the Group Three sprinters Hot As Hell She is one of the great modern day female line- Francis Cook, Bowcock Bloodstock, Bowness, and Craig's Dragon and the Listed winner breeding influences and another Classic winner to Jason Abrahams, Sir Owen Glenn, Torryburn, Flaming Hot; and grandam of the dual Group One make her mark is the Canadian Oaks-Listed, 9f Tyreel, Rosemont Stud, Sir Patrick Hogan, winner speedster In Her Time who contested Yes winner , dam of II to whom Cambridge Stud, Pencarrow, John Bromley and Yes Yes' Everest. Yes Yes Yes is line-bred 5fx4f. That great of the turf Windsor Park.

12 Stallion Profile Yes Yes Yes headed to stud as the winner of over $7.1 million, a tidy return on his $200,000 yearling sale price tag

In addition to the wonderful mare Pretty Penny, YES YES YES Bay colt, 2016 mares in foal to Yes Yes Yes include the stakes 14c winners Danehill Smile, Pear Tart, Ygritte, Northern Dancer Natalma 2d Fairy King (USA) Savacool and Tiyatrolani as well as the dams of the Bold Reason 19b Fairy Bridge Special 5h stakes winners Yes Baby Yes, Limestone and Encosta de Lago Star Appeal 5d Julinsky Prince. Star Way (GB) New Way 6e Shoal Creek Mr. Prospector 13c And so Yes Yes Yes is a horse being given every RUBICK Rolls (USA) Grand Luxe 4g chance to make it as a stallion, an opportunity that 7a Santry says "he well deserves." B 2011 Danehill (USA) Razyana 2d Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 8c "He was a brilliant three-year-old, a freak of a Offshore Boom Push a Button 10a Sliding Cube horse. Standing at 16 hands he has great size, 7a strength and scope and is going to pass on his real Canny Lad Jesmond Lass 14 Shantha’s Choice Australian speed and precocity." Dancing Show (USA) Nijinsky 8f Show Lady 8f Chris Waller is bound to be one of those inspecting 8c Runaway Bride 22d the Yes Yes Yes breed at future sales, looking Rahy 2d forward to seeing the horse pass on the attributes Glorious Song Ballade 12c Fantastic Light (USA) that made him special. Northern Dancer 2d Nijinsky Flaming Page 8f "I know when I walk around the sales I look for a Jood good mover who is going to be easy train and Yes Kamar 2n SIN SIN SIN 14c Yes Yes is just that sort of horse, he has a great Damascus 8h Br 2005 Accipiter Kingsland 9e temperament. I know all trainers speak well of Salieri (USA) Speak John 1l their best horses but Yes Yes Yes really is an Hogan’s Sister Liz. Piet 2n Steam Heat exceptional type, strong and athletic." BB Todman 1u Blazing Saddles Lady Simone 2r Supaburn Caranna 7d Vista Anna Vistaed 22d

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