Focused on Future Stakes Winners:
Each year, we attend all major Australian yearling sales, individually inspecting around 3,000 horses with one clear goal: to buy future stakes winners.
Over the past 20 years, Louis has assessed hundreds of thousands of yearlings across Australia and Europe. With a highly trained eye, he quickly evaluates a horse’s potential by analysing pedigree, athleticism, movement, temperament, constitution, and conformation. These skills are refined through years of hands-on experience and attention to detail.
Mindset and Discipline
With no stables to fill or pre-raised money to spend, we only buy horses we’d love to own ourselves. This independent, disciplined approach underpins our strong strike rate and ensures we stay focused on sourcing elite performers at fair value.
Data and Pedigree Insight
We maintain a proprietary database, built over 10 years and updated annually, tracking each Australasian vendor’s strike rate of stakes winners to yearlings offered. We also engage a pedigree specialist to review each catalogue back seven generations, identifying patterns others miss.
Why We Buy Fillies
Our main focus is fillies. With intense competition for colts from Hong Kong buyers and six major stallion investors, prices are inflated. In contrast, well-bred fillies offer better value and long-term upside.
We typically buy in the $70,000 to $400,000 range. While we rarely exceed this, one exception was Tiz Invincible, purchased for $550,000 and later sold for $2.8 million at the Chairman’s Sale.
