Spill The Beans

Racing Form

11 runs, five wins, three places | Best Timeform Rating: 125 | Average winning distance: 6.06f

Stakes form

AT 3 Won BRC QTC Cup, Gr.2, (6.5f, beating Federal and Stratum Star), ATC (Randwick) Eskimo Prince S., Gr.3, (6f, beating Le Romain and Counterattack), Hawkesbury Guineas, Gr.3 (7f, beating Denmagic and Serene Majesty), second in City Tatt’s RC Brian Crowley S, L, behind (to Counterattack), Scone RC Inglis 3YO Guineas, L, (to Serene Majesty)

ASON OF LEADING Australian sire Snitzel, Spill The Beans was one of the most popular young stallions in Australia before his untimely death at just seven years old last November.

He was one of the foundation stallions for Aquis Farm’s Canugra operation and his early runners had shown promise before their sire’s unexpected demise.

His first crop of runners has impressed with eight individual winners at the time of writing for the Group 2 QTC Cup, Group 3 Hawkesbury Guineas and Group 3 Eskimo Prince Stakes winner.

Spill The Beans won five of his 11 starts at two and three, racing from 1100m to 1400m.

Spill The Beans’ younger Not A Single Doubt half-sister Kenedna has won ten races, including the Group 1 Queen of the Turf and Doomben Cup and was also second in the Group 1 Schweppes Oaks and fourth in the Queensland Oaks (G1).

They are out of Miss Dodwell, a winning Falbrav half-sister to the Group 3 winner Yammer and Listed winner Blab, who is the dam of Group 1 Flight Stakes winner Speak Fondly and Wild And Proud, who won the Group 2 Hobartville Stakes.

Spill The Beans’ second dam is an Ahonoora half-sister to Australasian Horse of the Year and champion two-year-old filly Bounding Away and Glastonbury, who won the Group 1 Metropolitan Handicap.

He shuttled to The National Stud in Newmarket for a single season where he covered a small book of mares, amongst them Haakima, a daughter of Dixieland Band, and a Brazilian champion three-year-old filly and dual Classic winner Be Fair. She has a yearling colt by Spill The Beans as does Zavaala, an unraced Rock Of Gibraltar three-parts sister to Group 3 winner Danelissima, and to Daneleta, the dam of Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner Intense Focus and grand-dam of Skitter Scatter, who won the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Zavaala is out of Zavaleta, who won the Listed Athasi Stakes and is a half-sister to the Gran Criterium (G1) winner and sire Sholokhov and to Affianced, who won the Listed Debutante Stakes and is the dam of Soldier Of Fortune, successful in the Irish Derby and Coronation Cup (both G1) and now a leading National Hunt sire.

Four of his first crop were offered for sale at Tattersalls December Foal Sale with three of them sold.

The highest price achieved was 6,000gns for Houghton Bloodstock’s colt out of Sakhya, the dam of seven winners from nine runners and a half-sister to Warg, the unraced second dam of Group 1 winners Johannes Vermeer, and out of a half-sister to Shirley Heights.

Bred by Saxtead Livestock, and inbred 5x4 to Fairy Bridge through her sons, the full brothers Fairy King and Sadler’s Wells, the colt was purchased by Melanie Bowles.