Bold Bastille to be offered in standalone Inglis Digital sale
Multiple juvenile stakes winner Bold Bastille (Brazen Beau) will be offered as a racing and breeding prospect in a boutique Inglis Digital Online Sale early next week.
Trained throughout her career by Lindsay Park, the daughter of Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible) has won four of her nine starts, headed by three stakes victories and $750,925 in prize-money.
She debuted with a dominant display to win the $500,000 Inglis Banner (RL, 1000m), defeating subsequent Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Hayasugi (Royal Meeting) by three lengths.
Later in her juvenile career, Bold Bastille also won the Furphy Trophy (Listed, 1000m), Redoute’s Choice Stakes (Listed, 1100m) and the lucrative VOBIS Gold Rush (1000m).
The three-year-old also finished a close-up fourth against the older horses in the Carlyon Stakes (Listed, 1000m) behind eventual Moir Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m) winner Mornington Glory (Shalaa) as well as a second-placing behind multiple stakes winner and Group 1-placed filly Bellatrix Star (Star Witness) in the Cap d’Antibes Stakes (Listed, 1100m).
Bold Bastille was a $270,000 buy for trainers Ben, Will and JD Hayes with Mathew Becker of Group 1 Bloodstock Inglis Premier Yearling Sale and raced in the colours of prominent owner Ozzie Kheir and his partners.
Becker has no doubt Bold Bastille will make an ‘outstanding broodmare’ when the time comes.
“The commercial market really values precocity and what you find is those really good-looking, fast two-year-old type of yearlings like Bold Bastille is they generally go on and throw that in their own progeny and I can see this filly producing that type of early two-year-old herself,’’ Becker said.
“She’s got such a deep family behind her, the pedigree backs it up and I’m sure she’ll make a quality broodmare in time.
“She was so precocious, very natural, everything you want to see in a filly that will run at two, very forward, so well put together, very correct, she just really stood out and a lot of good judges were on her at Inglis Premier.
“That win on debut was quite breathtaking and the form around her has been elite, it really stood up time and again.
“Like we do with all our good fillies – Coolangatta, Sierra Sue and plenty of others – we essentially offer everything to the market so somebody will be buying a dream mare and broodmare prospect.’’
Bold Bastille is out of the Listed-winning mare Chloe In Paris (Exceed And Excel), herself a daughter of Group 2 scorer Innovation Girl (Rubiton), who also produced an Inglis Banner winner in the form of Ideas Man (Brazen Beau).
Co-trainer Ben Hayes added: “She’s so fast, so strong, has such a great shoulder on her and just so straight forward to train.
“She’s completely sound, she raced well last week and has plenty of racing left in her if that’s what her buyer chooses to do with her.”
For Inglis Victorian bloodstock manager James Price, Bold Bastille represents a unique opportunity for investors.
“She is a very appealing prospect – fast, good-looking and with a smart pedigree,” Price said.
“There are a hell of a lot of races across the country for a filly like her through the balance of the racing season and in time she is going to mate very well with a broad cross-section of the most commercial stallions in Australia and New Zealand.”