Un-named (Bivouac – Plumm)

The Bivouacs are coming! Check out these stats: Although his oldest progeny are just 2yo’s, BIVOUAC has sired four individual winners already and two of those are Group Two winners! The other two are Metro winners! That’s a great start for a stallion. Recently we saw BEIWACHT win the Group Two Silver Slipper Stakes on February 22^nd and blast his way into Golden Slipper contention!  In New Zealand, INTENTION won the Group Two Wakefield Challenge Stakes, and those two metro winners are Cavalry Girl (Flemington) and Luana Miss (Ascot).

Bivouac, a son of Exceed & Excel, was crowned World Champion Sprinter, Champion Three-Year-Old, amassing $5,696,110 in prize money and retiring a six-time Group winner, three at Group One level.  He’s one of the rare stallions to have won a Group 1 as a two, three and four year old. “Good body, good mover, good conformation” with a big tick were the comments on my catalogue page after inspecting this colt on farm at Lynward Park before the yearling sales commenced. Whilst acknowledging that this colt is a November foal and so therefore not as forward as most others being presented at the sales, it’s not now I’m buying him for, it’s for when he’s three and older. November foals are often looked over by yearling buyers as they’re compared to their older, more forward barn mates, but you have to look through that, you have to allow for it, and three months quickly turns it around. Think of horses like ANAMOE, SO YOU THINK, NATURE STRIP, REGAL POWER, HARD TO THINK, PROBABEEL, VERRY ELEEGANT and FANGIRL just to name a few, and you get the idea that being a late foal is no barrier to success. Ironically, even this colt’s sire BIVOUAC, a Group 1 winner as a 2yo, 3yo and 4yo, was-you guessed it, a November foal!

This colt is out of Plumm, a stakes placed Encosta de Lago mare who at stud has had four to race for three winners, including LEVKARTE whose 9 wins have netted over $900,000, Total Power whose 5 wins have also netted over $900,000, and High Power who has won 5 races and over $200,000. His second dam Madame Plume (by Military Plume) was also stakes placed finishing second in the South Australian Oaks at Group 1 level. He’ll require a little more time to allow him to mature, but when he catches up, he’ll be a lovely horse to own, and importantly, he’s also eligible for the WESTSPEED BONUS SCHEME…

*This syndicate is pending approval by The Lead Regulator