Kameko Yearlings Impressing At The Sales

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00:00Among the first season sires who are making quite an impression at the yearlings sales

00:05this year is Camico, the dual group one winning son of Kittens Joy who won the 2000 guineas

00:10in emphatic style. He stands at Tween Hills as part of the guitar racing stallion roster

00:16and David Redvers tells us about the impressions his yearlings are making.

00:21Well he was an incredibly good value yearling that we bought from Keeneland. At the time

00:27we knew that our Kittens Joy horse, Roaring Lion, was obviously well above average. He

00:33hadn't been fully exposed and so we were very definitely again trying to see if we could

00:38buy the best Kittens Joy in the sale again that year. He had that sort of great physicality,

00:43great movement, walked a bit like a leopard, just like Roaring Lion did and he had this

00:50fantastic presence and temperament and character. So we went in there fully expecting to have

00:55to pay considerably more than we paid for Roaring Lion and we ended up paying I think

01:01$90,000 so it was one of those, we were shocked at the time and he's never stopped pleasing

01:10us ever since. Andrew started making really positive noises about him quite early on.

01:16He just liked the horse, loved his attitude and then started to make really positive noises.

01:23He uses a system called Aquinity which measures stride length and heart rate and what have

01:28you and after his first proper away day he got hold of me and said I think the system

01:33must be broken because it doesn't make sense. It was just really a wonderful journey. It

01:40was a very difficult year with Covid. The following year as his three-year-old he was

01:44favourite for the guineas all over the winter having broken the two-year-old track record

01:48at Newcastle when he won the group one up there. First time there had ever been a group

01:53one run on the all-weather in Europe. He looked incredibly impressive that day. When we came

01:59to the guineas at the time it was a month late. It was all about are we going to get

02:05a run? Is racing going to happen? Are all our three-year-olds going to be wasted? What's

02:11going to happen? So we suddenly got the green light to go and what happened there was just

02:16amazing with that wonderful iconic photograph of a deserted grandstand and Marie the lovely

02:21girl who looked after him jumping for joy as he passed the post. It was just a wonderful

02:30wonderful day. Having lost Roaring Lion we sent him all of our best mares and so as a

02:36result we've got some absolute cracking yearlings at home. So FAD decided to put a few on the

02:42market and let them sell and let the market decide what they were worth and at Arcana

02:46they averaged €177,000 and they were very much of the more of the sort of French style

02:53but they they looked fantastic and the thing that stood out about them was their amazing

02:57mindset again as well as their action and athleticism. Then here he's come with a typical

03:04more of a donny type of horse. You know there's mares that I sent him, Lady Miquel that breeds

03:11sprinters and Richard Hannan has just given €95,000 for the colt who looked a real speedball.

03:18We've been getting the most gratifying feedback imaginable really. Chainers want to chain

03:25things that look like they want to work for them. The outlook is so important. So obviously

03:34you see the physical, you like the physical but then what they're loving is the fact that

03:39they really they look like dad they want to get on with it and help them and I think that's

03:42going to be the thing that really stands out as we go forward is the fact that they're

03:47proper trainers horses.