MILLIONAIRE yearling King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice) landed the spoils when he beat Prague, also a son of Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), to win the seven-furlong Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. Now the winner of two of his five starts, including a Group 3 over six furlongs, he boosted his earnings to more than Aus$650,000.

The Paul and Peter Snowden-trained two-year-old will next run in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes and the Segenhoe Stud-bred was sold at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale to Irish-born bloodstock agent James Harron for $1.4 million. Harron is among the syndicate that races the colt now.

This was a 38th Group 1 winner for Redoute’s Choice who died in March 2019 at the age of 22. One of the best ever stallions to stand in Australia, he was based at Arrowfield Stud, near Scone in the Hunter Valley.

At the time of his death – he was humanely euthanized after suffering a traumatic loss of mobility – Arrowfield’s John Messara said: “Redoute’s Choice is such a big part of all our lives, and right now it’s hard to imagine Arrowfield without him. He has given us so much. Arrowfield has been built on his back and he’s allowed all of us and many, many other people to fulfil our dreams and ambitions.”

At stud Redoute’s Choice has sired 172 stakes winners. When he went to Arrowfield in 2000 he stood for $30,000, and that rose to $330,000 by 2007. Though he only covered 45 mares in his final season at stud, he was still commanding a fee of $137,500. Redoute’s Choice spent two season in Europe, at the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval in 2013 and 2014 when his fee was €70,000 and €60,000 respectively.

As a racehorse, Redoute’s Choice won four Group 1s - the Blue Diamond Stakes, Manikato Stakes, Orr Stakes and a race that is well worth watching online, the 1999 Caulfield Guineas when he beat Testa Rossa. Redoute’s Choice has been succeeded at Arrowfield by his five-time Group 1-winning son, The Autumn Sun. He has completed his first season at a fee of $77,000 and covered an outstanding book of mares.

King’s Legacy is the second foal out of the multiple winner and stakes-performer Breakfast In Bed, a daughter of Hussonet (Mr Prospector). The first foal is the three-year-old filly Do Not Disturb (Fastnet Rock) and she won twice within 10 days in late January and early February. The third produce of Breakfast In Bed is a yearling full-sister to King’s Legacy and she sold this week at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale for $475,000 to Yulong Investments.

That price, while well ahead of the sale average and median, would still seem to be good value for an own-sister to a Group 1 winner, out of a half-sister to a Group 1 winner, and whose third dam bred another excellent son of Redoute’s Choice in Not A Single Doubt. The latter, from the first crop of his sire, stood at Arrowfield but in January it was announced that he was being retired due to pulmonary disease. He has a double-digit number of Group 1 winners, and undoubtedly more to come.

Up closer in the family, Breakfast In Bed is a half-sister to last season’s Group 1 ATC Flight Stakes winner Oohood (I Am Invincible). Retired to the breeding shed last September, she was placed in a number of group races, notably when runner-up in both the Group 1 Golden Slipper and Group 1 Sires’ Produce Stakes, and third in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas and Group 1 Blue Slipper Stakes. She earned more than $1.5 million.

Yet another leading sire appears in this family. King’s Legacy’s third dam was the dual two-year-old winner and stakes-placed Singles Bar (Rory’s Jester) and she was a half-sister to yet another former Arrowfield stallion in Snippets (Lunchtime). Snippets was a brilliant racehorse who proved himself a stallion of the highest quality. He raced 14 times, collecting three Group 1s to become Australia’s 13th millionaire racehorse. He was named the 1987 joint champion two-year-old and the following year was rated the champion three-year-old sprinter. Almost two decades after his death at the age of just 17, an incredible 81% of his runners won a race of some kind, and his 57 stakes winners included a host of Group 1 scorers, including Pins, Spartacus, Casual Pass, Hasna, Snowland and more.