22 April 2010
The racing form credentials of Highview Stud’s exciting new sire for 2010, Sufficient, have been franked by the fine winning performance of Juice in the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock Breeders’ Stakes at Te Aroha earlier this month.
Sufficient and Juice finished first and second respectively as two-year-olds in the Listed ARC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Ellerslie.
“For Juice to come out subsequently as a four-year-old and record a Group 1 victory shows that Sufficient was right up to the best gallopers around,” said Brent Gillovic of Highview Stud.
Sufficient will be the first son of Zabeel secured for stud duties at Highview Stud.
Zabeel needs no introduction and is the greatest living sire currently standing at stud in Australasia.
Zabeel is the sire of 40 individual Group 1 winners and his progeny have won 10 Derbies, 8 Oaks, 4 Cox Plates, 3 Melbourne Cups and 3 Caulfield Cups.
Sufficient is out of the Group 2 winning mare Fleur De Chine – dam of the Gr. 1 SAJC Australasian Oaks winner Tully Thunder.
This is also the family of US Group 1 Del Mar Stakes John C Mabee Handicap winner Black Mamba and Group 1 AJC Australian Derby winner Roman Emperor as well as Group 2 Wellington Guineas winner Rios.
“It is one of the hottest families in the New Zealand stud book and has the knack of coming up with one outstanding galloper after another,” said Gillovic.
