The credentials of Brazen Beau’s multiple stakes-winning filly Bold Bastille as a highly commercial racing and breeding prospect would stack up internationally.
The Ben, Will and JD Hayes-trained three-year-old, thrice a stakes winner last season at two, will be offered for sale in a bespoke Inglis Digital auction next week.
Connections of the pre-Christmas stakes-winning juvenile, who won the Inglis Banner on debut in October 2023, have chosen to put the three-year-old on the market after a luckless spring preparation.
The talented on-pace filly demonstrated her immense ability from the start, defeating subsequent Group 1 Blue Diamond winner Hayasugi by three lengths in the $500,000 sales-restricted race at Moonee Valley.
Bold Bastille also added the Listed Festival and Redoute’s Choice Stakes to her black type record last season as well as taking out the Vobis Gold Rush at Bendigo when again showing sustained speed.
Owned by a syndicate of high-profile racing figures that includes Ozzie Kheir and the late Colin McKenna, Bold Bastille raced four times this preparation, starting second favourite behind Moir Stakes winner Mornington Glory in the Carlyon Stakes first-up prior to finishing runner-up in the Listed Cap D’Antibes at Flemington in September behind Coolmore Stud Stakes-placed filly Bellatrix Star.
Bold Bastille was unplaced in the Scarborough Stakes at Moonee Valley and the Red Roses on Oaks day, both at Group 3 level, to round out her campaign.
The Bold Bastille sale goes live at 3pm on Friday with bidding opening at 9am on Monday. The countdown will begin at 4pm on Tuesday, November 19.
“We’re grateful to the owners Bold Bastille for giving us the opportunity to bring this filly to market and allowing the market to compete for her,” Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch told The Straight.
“I would expect there to be good competition for her because, certainly through a traditional set of breeding stock sales, she would be very, very popular.
“We've just seen a number of Australians go to the US and compete for good breeding stock there and I think she'd sit very favourably relative to a lot of the horses that people were looking to try and buy last week (at Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland).”
Ben Hayes believes the lightly raced filly, the winner of four of her nine starts and $750,000 in prize money, has plenty of racing upside left in her.
“She’s so fast, so strong, has such a great shoulder on her and just so straight-forward to train,” Hayes said.
“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.”
A daughter of Listed-winning Exceed And Excel mare Chloe In Paris, Bold Bastille was bought by her trainers and bloodstock agent Mathew Becker for $270,000 from the Blue Gum Farm draft at the 2023 Inglis Premier sale.
Her second dam is the Group 2-winning former Brian Mayfield-Smith-trained filly Innovation Girl who has also produced an Inglis Banner winner by Brazen Beau, the Ciaron Maher-trained Ideas Man.
“The commercial market really highly 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.’’
