Coolmore rolls $30 million dice and buys Golden Slipper winner Guest House

Coolmore has bought Golden Slipper-winning colt Guest House in a quickfire $30 million sale less than a week after the colt’s career-defining Group 1 victory.

A son of Coolmore’s resident stallion Home Affairs, whose champion first season sire status appears certain after his maiden Group 1 win, Guest House will be raced by the Australian arm of the international breeding giant after a deal was reached late on Thursday.

The existing owners of the Mick Price and Mick Kent Jnr-trained Guest House, headed by syndicator Roll The Dice Racing, will remain as members of the new partnership overseen by Coolmore.

Guest House will continue to race in Roll The Dice’s royal blue, red dice and seamed colours under the terms of the deal.

It’s the second big stallion deal by Coolmore in little over a month after it purchased proven New Zealand-based sire Super Seth in February in a sale that valued him at A$70 million.

A $270,000 Magic Millions purchase by Price and Kent Jnr in conjunction with agent Jeremy Rogers from the Newgate Farm draft last year, Guest House burst onto the scene in late December with a city class win at Cranbourne.

It was followed up by two unlucky runs in the Blue Diamond Prelude and the Group 1 Blue Diamond, the latter behind Streisand.

Guest House was able to turn the tables on Streisand at Rosehill last weekend, coming from the second half of the field under jockey Zac Lloyd to score by almost 1.5 lengths and catapult him into the most valuable two-year-old in the country.

“He’s been a special colt from day one. He has an abundance of natural speed, just like his sire, and to see him deliver like that in a Golden Slipper is incredibly rewarding,” Price said. 

“We’re delighted to see him secure his future at stud at Coolmore to stand alongside his own very exciting young sire.”

Coolmore Australia principal Tom Magnier said: “Home Affairs is a stallion that we have had such great faith in for a number of years and Guest House has been on our radar since his debut win in December. 

“He is exactly the type of colt we strive to stand at Coolmore, a Golden Slipper winner by a brilliant young sire, with the speed and physique to make a top-class stallion. 

“The Slipper remains the most important stallion-making race in Australia and he couldn’t have been any more impressive in winning it.”

The 10th Slipper-winning colt this century, Guest House will stand alongside 2023 Slipper winner Shinzo, a colt Coolmore bought in utero, and 2012 winner Pierro at Jerrys Plains.

The 2020 Slipper winner Farnan stands at Kia Ora Stud while Newgate Farm has 2021 winner Stay Inside and 2016 winner Capitalist on its stallion roster.