A perennial top 10 stallion on the General Sires' table, Commands achieved his 150th Australia winner on July 24 when the Transporter recorded a five-and-a-quarter length win on the Sunshine Coast.
Reaching his record mark two days prior when Andthebandplayedon scored at Ipswich, Commands further cemented his tally with two more winners over the preceding two days.
Three-year-old gelding Transporter was facing the starter for the fourth time and put the writing on the wall with a devastating maiden win. Bred by Torryburn Stud, Transporter is out of the Sir Tristram mare Portrait Collector, a three-quarter-sister to the dams of Stakes winner Tantra and Liberty Rose as well as a half-sister to G3 winner Equal Rights and Listed winner Adopted Hero. From the family of Commands’ G3-winning filly Kanzan, this gelding appears to be on an upward spiral.
Rising four-year-old Commands gelding Rain Affair was also in action over the weekend, recording his sixth win from seven starts. Stepping up to open class, the Joe Pride-trained gelding scored by five lengths, eased down. One of the most promising gallopers for Commands in recent times, he really does appear to be something special. His Melbourne equivalent, the Peter Moody-trained Mr Make Believe took his impressive record to eight wins from 12 starts recently.
The sire of 10 Australian Stakes winners this season, highlighted by the G1 winner Erewhon, G2 winner Soul, Stakes-winning fillies and mares Palomares, Kanzan, Brasileira, as well as juvenile Stakes winners Altar and Atomic, Commands is the sire of 38 individual Stakes winners. Highlighting his sire power, 36 of the 38 Stakes winners sired by Commands are the best progeny that their dam have ever produced – that is sire power!
Standing the forthcoming season at Darley Kelvinside at a fee of $66,000 (inc GST), Commands has achieved G1 winners in each of his last three seasons and is right up there with the best stallion-sons of the immortal Danehill to stand in Australia.
