A syndicate of breeders has purchased a significant interest in ASTRONOMER ROYAL and, as a result, the Classic winning son of Danzig will be re-located to Eliza Park this spring.
\u201cThe syndicate has been searching for a well credentialled son of Danzig for some time and with Astronomer Royal\u2019s weanlings selling so well this year, they\u2019re convinced they\u2019ve found the right horse,\u201d Eliza Park CEO Cameron Croucher explained.
At the Easter Broodmare Sale last year, mares in foal to Astronomer Royal sold for $240,000 and $200,000 and buyers have clearly liked the result with weanlings fetching as high as $90,000 \u2013 over 10 times service fee \u2013 in 2011.
Astronomer Royal has certainly set the tongues wagging with leading agent Paul Guy declaring: \u201cthey\u2019re just lovely horses and he\u2019s a really exciting horse for Victoria.\u201d
Damon Gabbedy of Belmont Bloodstock concurs: \u201cI\u2019m very impressed by the Astronomer Royal\u2019s overall \u2026 they are a lovely bunch.\u201d
Mark Player, who purchased the $90,000 colt from Chelsey Cry at the recent Great Southern, was equally enthusiastic: \u201cI thought he was the best colt on the ground. A very attractive colt with very good presence.\u201d
The Champion 3YO Male Miler of France, Astronomer Royal won the Longchamp Poule d\u2019Essai des Poulains-G1 (French 2000 Guineas), a distinction he shares with a vast array of influential sires, including \u2013 in recent years \u2013\u00a0 Shamardal.
Also, Astronomer Royal finished close up in the time honoured St James\u2019 Palace Stakes-G1 behind Excellent Art and Duke of Marmalade and ran Europe\u2019s best sprinters to less than a length (after being held up at a vital stage) in the July Cup (1200m).
Out of the stakes winning Easy Goer mare, Sheepscot (who has also produced the Group Two winner Navesink River), Astronomer Royal boasts a tremendous black type family, as would befit a son of the legendary Danzig (197 stakes winners).
\u201cWe are very excited to be standing Astronomer Royal which brings our roster to 12 for the 2011 season,\u201d Croucher adds. \u201cNaturally he will be applicable for Eliza Park\u2019s best terms \u2013 transferrable free return and no payment of service fee until 31 March 2012 \u2013 but due to the late announcement, package deals will also be available.\u201d
Astronomer Royal will stand the 2011 season at a fee of $8,800 and for further information phone David Somers (0428 440 330), Mark Lindsay (0416 334 338) or Phil Marshall (0407 853 782).<\/p>\n
A syndicate of breeders has purchased a significant interest in ASTRONOMER ROYAL and, as a result, the Classic winning son of Danzig will be re-located to Eliza Park this spring.\u201cThe …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}