BELL River
Bell River and the Ferguson family are proven racehorse producers having bred horses like Extreme Choice and Ace High, and they’ve taken all that knowledge and experience to their new property, which is beginning to show the same level of high quality results that everyone associates with their name.
Bell River will present sixteen yearlings at the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, including a filly, Lot 469, by Extreme Choice; the Gr1 winner and sire that they bred. A half-sister to Listed winner of eight races, All Too Royal, this filly is out of Gr1 winner Bel Mer who has a 100% winners to runners record as a broodmare.
Bell River’s graduate Chrysaor showed promise at two, and now at three, he’s won the Gr2 Callander-Presnell Stakes and was one of only five yearlings they took to the Gold Coast in 2022 which was their first draft back at the Coast after a few year’s break.
Written Tycoon filly, Lot 468, is the second foal of Listed winner Beauty, who is a half-sister to two other stakes winners, giving this filly huge residual value, and this is the family of juvenile Gr1 winner Summer Passage.
“My family have been on the land in Australia for five generations,” said Bell River’s James Ferguson. “We brought all that experience to our new property at Dungog, and believe that this year’s draft is the culmination of our hard work in setting up this farm over the last five years.”
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Bell River have backed first season sire and Gr1 Golden Slipper winner Farnan with five yearlings in this draft. A colt, Lot 768, is the second foal of brilliant racemare and Gr1 Galaxy winner I Am Excited, who won seven races, is a half-sister to Gr3 winner Flippant, and is from the family of Gr1 winners Atlantic Jewel, Commanding Jewel, and
