The growth of China Horse Club has been considerable over the past decade and with a successful breeding division to its name it is now one of the industry’s most recognisable brands.
China Horse Club bred a Group 1 winner in consecutive seasons including G1 Randwick Guineas winner Communist (Russian Revolution) and G1 Coolmore Stud S. winner Ozzmosis (Zoustar).
China Horse Club is the breeder of nine individual stakes winners in the past six seasons.
China Horse Club is currently producing stakes winners at a rate of almost two every season.
The best crop to date was in 2019 which featured three individual stakes winners.
Represented by a pair of elite winners in consecutive seasons, the breeding arm of China Horse Club is quickly making a name for itself in the Australian breeding industry.
In the past six seasons, China Horse Club bred the winners of 16 stakes races including two at the top level, nine at Group 2 level and one at Group 3 level. The operation’s most prolific winning homebred was Dame Giselle (I Am Invincible) who was a four-time Group 2 winner and a winner of the $1 million Golden Gift as a 2-year-old. Of the 16 stakes wins, it has produced nine individual winners which equates to almost two new stakes winners every season for the boutique style operation.
Dame Giselle is China Horse Club's most porlific winning homebred | Image courtesy of Sportpix
Well-known for holding equity in some of the most valuable colts to have graced the international racing scene including Russian Revolution, Wild Ruler, Justify (USA) and Life Is Good (USA), China Horse Club is relatively new to the breeding game. Of the breeder's stakes winners produced over the past six seasons, the 2019 foal crop has been its most successful with no fewer than three individual stakes winners represented. They include the G1 Randwick Guineas winner Communist, dual stakes-winning entire Cannonball (Capitalist) and multiple Group 2-winning filly Revolutionary Miss (Russian Revolution).
China Horse Club’s 2017 and 2018 foal crops are represented by two stakes winners apiece including the 2018 born Listed Dulcify S. winner Giannas (Flying Artie) and G2 Rubiton S. winner Marine One (Capitalist). The former crop features Go Bloodstock’s multiple stakes-winning purchase Dame Giselle and Listed Canberra Guineas winner Equation (Press Statement).
| Capitalist | 2 |
| Dundeel | 1 |
| Flying Artie | 1 |
| I Am Invincinble | 1 |
| Press Statement | 1 |
| Russian Revolution | 2 |
| Zoustar | 1 |
Table: China Horse Club's stakes winners by sire
Newgate Farm’s Capitalist and China Horse Club part-owned Russian Revolution are the most successful sires for the astute breeder having sired two stakes winners each. Dame Giselle’s dam Ballet Society (NZ) (Stravinsky {USA}) and Global Exchange’s (Dundeel {NZ}) dam Incredulous (Keep The Faith) were purchased carrying their eventual stakes-winning progeny in-utero at the time, while the remaining stakes winners are the result of China Horse Club matings which include stallions Flying Artie, Press Statement and Zoustar (for whom they are shareholders in).
| Golconda | Marine One, Cannonball | 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale | $400,000 |
| Cappadocia | Communist | 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale | $90,000 |
| Incredulous | Global Exchange | 2015 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale | $260,000 |
| Purcentage | Equation, Revolutionary Miss | 2015 New Zealand Bloodstock Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale | $180,000 |
| Palace Rock | Giannis | 2017 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale | $260,000 |
| Ballet Society | Dame Giselle | 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale | $350,000 |
| No More Tears | Ozzmosis | 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale | $550,000 |
Table: China Horse Club stakes-winning progeny and their dam's source
Seven individual mares account for the nine China Horse Club stakes winners. Golconda (Snitzel) is responsible for Marine One and Cannonball while Purcentage (Onemorenomore) is the dam of stakes winners Revolutionary Miss and Equation. All dams of stakes-winning China Horse Club homebreds were purchased at public auction.
Group 1-producing mare Cappadocia (Northern Meteor) is the only mare of the group to be purchased as a yearling and race in the China Horse Club silks. Stakes placed and a winner of two of her eight starts for trainer Phillip Stokes, Cappadocia was purchased for just $90,000 from the 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale. At the other end of the spectrum is last week’s G1 Coolmore Stud S. winner Ozzmosis, who is the son of China Horse Club’s most-expensive broodmare purchase for the period in No More Tears (NZ) (Darci Brahma {NZ}), purchased off the track for $550,000 at the 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. Parting ways with the colt at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, China Horse Club were quick to purchase back into the horse alongside Newgate Farm and Go Bloodstock.
Ozzmosis, winner of the G1 Coolmore Stud S., was bred by China Horse Club | Image courtesy of The Image Is Everything
Ozzmosis is the second elite-level winning colt of the season part-owned by China Horse Club with dual Group 1-winning juvenile Militarize (NZ) (Dundeel {NZ}) landing the stallion making G1 Golden Rose in September.
The operation, under Michael Smith's tutelage, added five breeding prospects to its name at last year’s breeding stock sales including the Group 1-performed pair of Ballistic Lover (Smart Missile) and Ecumenical (Zebedee {GB}), and a half-sister to King Of Sparta in Aviemore (Written Tycoon). The multiple Group 2 winner Princess Grace (USA) (Karakontie {USA}), purchased at Fasig-Tipton in 2022 for US$1,700,000 ($2,615,303) will also join the broodmare band in 2024 after an Autumn campaign.
With 11 homebreds, eight of which are out of stakes performed mares/producers, set to be offered under ‘The Chase’ at January's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale it's certainly an exciting time ahead for the China Horse Club team.
