With the race for first-season sire honours hotly contested, Ad Valorem put his hand up as a leading contender on July 25, when his two-year-old gelding Boston Tea scored on debut over 1200m at Bathurst.
Trained by Peter Snowden, the gelding became the eighth individual winner for the dual G1-winning son of Danzig, taking him to equal first with fellow Darley stallion Nadeem as well as Queensland-based sires All Bar One and Red Dazzler – all of which have eight individual winners.
Bred by Darley Australia, Boston Tea is out of the G3-performed Octagonal mare Provokes, a half-sister to the Listed-winning, G1-placed Aquiver. From the family of G2 winner Excited Angel and G3 winner Typhoon, Boston Tea joins recent Ad Valorem winners Henshaw and the unbeaten Pied A Terre.
Highlighted by the G2 winner Free Wheeling and the G3-winning, G1-performer Uate, Ad Valorem is the only first-season sire of his crop to have sired two individual Stakes winners so far this season. The Irish Champion two-year-old will stand the forthcoming season at Darley Kelvinside at a fee of $11,000 (inc GST).
