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The win of Starspangledbanner in Saturday's Caulfield Guineas provided MAKYBE with an enormous thrill. A 3200 acre thoroughbred breeding enterprise nestled in the Barrabool hills by the banks of the Barwon River, MAKYBE is devoted to breeding and nurturing superstar thoroughbreds. Saturday's victory marked the second group one winner born on the property since it began in 2002 and signaled MAKYBE was a force in the thoroughbred breeding industry.
The Caulfield Guineas is one of the races that every breeder in the country wants to breed the winner of. Saturday's field in the Guineas was described as the best in a decade; experts described it as a vintage year. It is history now that the MAKYBE bred colt Starspangledbanner would blitz the opposition.
The flashy chestnut colt, already a stakes winner before the Guineas, is the shining star amongst MAKYBE's outstanding 2006 crop. Other MAKYBE graduates bred in 2006 to win at stakes level include Corsaire, Exceedingly French and Common Interest. MAKYBE also purchased the stakes winner Headway who charged homed in Saturday's Thoroughbred Club Stakes. The run was reminiscent of her barnstorming second in the Golden Slipper.
In recent years other stakes winners bred at MAKYBE include: Musket, the half brother to Makybe Diva, Exceedingly Good and Arapaho Miss winner of the 2007 VRC Oaks.
MAKYBE is also home to the Diva, the legend, Makybe Diva. A mare who rewrote the record books with her name firmly etched in history.
"The win capped off an amazing weekend. My wife Deslee gave birth on Saturday morning to our beautiful healthy girl Charli Rose, Lucky Thunder won on Friday night at the Valley and then Starspangledbanner takes out the Guineas. It was truly an incredible couple of days," said owner Tony Santic.
While Santic's weekend couldn't have been scripted any better neither could the Guineas win of Starspangledbanner and what it means to MAKYBE.
MAKYBE still owns the dam of Starspangledbanner, Gold Anthem. Santic purchased her at the Adelaide Magic Millions sales. "We're sending her to Redoute's Choice this year. She's a proven group one producer now and she deserves to go to a proven group one sire like Redoute's Choice," explained Santic. The mating certainly reads like a recipe for a potential star, by Redoute's Choice himself a Caulfield Guineas winner in a vintage year out of a Caulfield Guineas producer in a vintage year.
Gold Anthem has a strong Rock of Gibraltar yearling filly destined for the Inglis Easter sale ring in 2010. Stud Manager Scott Holcombe is looking forward to presenting the filly at the sales. "The win of Starspangledbanner in Saturday's Caulfield Guineas makes his half sister a show stopper. She'll be one of our star lots for sure at Easter," said Holcombe.
This Spring Gold Anthem foaled at MAKYBE a flashy chestnut colt very much in the mould of his famous half brother. The colt now just a few week's old is by MAKYBE's foundation stallion Purrealist. "The first foals of Purrealist have been precocious looking, good boned and very well put together. The half brother to Starspangledbanner is no exception," said Holcombe.
MAKYBE also owns Starspangledbanner's half-sister Gold Chant. She was more than a handy race mare herself winning five races including three in town. This year she joined the MAKYBE broodmare band and will go to Chosir. "We wanted to support Chosir knowing the opinion we had of Starspangledbanner, so we selected a mating with Gold Chant to give us a three-quarter blood relation to him," explained Santic.
Starspangledbanner was always a hugely popular yearling. He was athletic and a great mover and quickly became a favorite among the MAKYBE grooms. Brad Spicer a young charismatic thoroughbred syndicator took a fancy to him. "He was my first expensive yearling and I asked Tony Santic to stay in him for 25% at the sales and he did and I had him sold by the time I got home," explained Spicer.
"When Brad invited me to stay in him for a leg we shook hands and now he's won the Guineas. Brad found 30 other owners and I'm just as happy as every one of them including the boys that nearly brought down the grandstand on Saturday," said Santic.
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