LIME COUNTRY
2019 vendor
Lime Country Thoroughbreds will present their second Australian crop at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Jo and Greg Griffin took on the huge challenge of moving from the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand to run their Southern Highlands base on the property previously known as Think Big Stud. 2018 Gr.1 NZ One Thousand Guineas winner Media Sensation is a graduate of their final draft out of New Zealand, while other Lime Country graduates include Singapore Gold Cup winner Bahana, stakes winner Fascination Street, and 2016/17 Hong Kong Champion Griffin Premiere. Bluebloods spoke to proprietor, Jo Griffin, about their Magic Millions Gold Coast draft for 2019. What can buyers expect from your 2019 MMGC draft? Super sexy sires. Sires that are current, exciting and can do the job at the top end for a start. Lime Country has ten yearlings by proven sires, led by two yearling fillies by Media Sensation’s sire, I Am Invincible. Lot 433 is the second foal of the speedy Listed winning two-year-old Cailin Miss, from a good running family, while Lot 427 is out of Bugaboo, a young winning half-sister to group winners Teamgeist and Barbaro. A Written Tycoon colt (Lot 466) is from Climatic who is a stakes placed winner descending from the stallion producing Redoute’s Choice family of Best In Show. Climatic’s first two foals are winners.
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by Renée Geelen
