Storming win for Hello Youmzain colt

Stormland has struck another winning blow for our exciting young stallion Hello Youmzain.

The two-year-old raced right up to trainer Ciaron Maher’s expectations with a tidy victory over 1000 metres on the Kensington track at Randwick.

We bred the colt, whose pedigree page features the presence of our multiple Group 1-winning mare Joliestar and his performance at the first time of asking showed he had inherited a good measure of the family ability.

Stormland was offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and was knocked down for A$325,000 to Darby Racing and Deburgh Equine.

“He was a ripper of a yearling and Darby were keen on him so I’m rapt,” Maher said.

“We’ve got options with him now he’s won and looked like he had a bit in hand. He was impressive and has always been quite a natural.”

Stormland jumped well to sit in third spot away from the rail and answered every call in the run home from rider Jason Collett to score comfortably.

“He’s a big boy and still probably got a bit of furnishing to do, but he was able to travel and gave a really good kick,” he said.

Stormland is the first winner for the More Than Ready mare Sienna Rose, a talented performer who won on five occasions up to 1400 metres with her mother a half-sister to two-time group 1 winner Merchant Navy and to the dam of Joliestar.

Sienna Rose’s Sword Of State filly sold at Karaka this year to the TAB Racing Club for $180,000 and also has a Savabeel colt at foot.

She is back in foal to Hello Youmzain, whose first Southern Hemisphere crop now includes two winners in both New Zealand and Australia from a handful of representatives.

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