Crowned Champion Two-Year-Old Colt in a vintage crop: his peers included the likes of now-sires Bivouac, Exceedance, Yes Yes Yes and Castelvecchio as well as fillies Probabeel and Loving Gaby - proven G1 weight-for-age performers against the colts.
Microphone has kicked his career off in fine form, from just five first-crop juvenile runners he has achieved to date (4 January):
Pulpit (x Sarah's Holy Belle (USA) (El Corredor (USA))): a 2.26-length city win on debut at Doomben on 22 November.
Miss Judas (x Sistine Angel (Testa Rossa)): a Kirkham Plate-second for Richard and Will Freedman at Royal Randwick on 21 October behind Shangri La Express - a winner of Golden Gift.
From a second crop of 53 live foals, we've delved into each of Microphone's Magic Millions offerings' pedigree pages to provide further insights.
Lot 118: Microphone x Rumble Doll (colt)
Click to view Lot 118:on account of Telemon Thoroughbreds, Innisplain, Qld (As Agent)
Breeder: M & R Services Pty Ltd, NSW
Out of the city-winning two-year-old Rumble Doll.
Street Cry-line mares have produced 149 Stakes winners including G1 winners Romantic Warrior, Cascadian, September Run, Farnan, Lyre, Tom Kitten and Daumier.
From the family of G1-winning sprinters Perfectly Ready and Belle Du Jour.
Exceed And Excel/Encosta de Lago cross has produced G1 winner Prompt Response and Stakes winners Impendabelle, Jamaea and Fashion Legend.
Recent Australian-bred G1 winners who are the first foal of their dam include Tuvalu, Bella Nipotina, Amelia’s Jewel and Loving Gaby
Did you know? Daandine are the breeder of Golden Slipper-winning stallion Capitalist AND his Champion Sire Written Tycoon.
Situated near Warwick in Queensland, the farm (Daandine) was established as a commercial entity in the 1920s by Jan Clark’s great-grandfather to operate alongside a highly successful cattle business.
Clark herself has continued a proud family tradition in both of those circles, saying to TTR AusNZ in 2020, “Breeding racehorses is a genetic trait – there was never any chance of me doing anything else,” she said. “But it’s something I enjoy, it’s turned into a great passion of mine, and I love nothing more than seeing people have success with the horses they’ve bought from us."
Closely related to G1 Newmarket Handicap winner Shamexpress.
O’Reilly is the broodmare sire of 126 Stakes winners including G1 winners Shout The Bar, Mo’unga, Pride Of Jenni, Espiona, El Patroness and Major Beel.
Sons of Exceed And Excel have already produced the winner of the G1 Golden Slipper.