The globetrotting Point Lonsdale in action (Picture: supplied.)
Cape Breeders (January 8)
Maine Chance Farms will welcome an exciting new addition to its already impressive stallion roster when Point Lonsdale joins its lineup in 2025.
A top-class racehorse, who won group races at two, four and five, Point Lonsdale, like Maine Chance’s previous star stallion Silvano a globetrotter star, earned more than £ 700,000 in prize money.
Point Lonsdale, winner of seven of 20 starts, showed tremendous precocity winning four of five starts at two, when he ran second, to subsequent Irish classic winner Native Trail, in the G1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes.
At two, Point Lonsdale won all of the G2 Galileo Irish EBF Futurity Stakes, G3 Japan Racing Association Tyros Stakes and Listed Chesham Stakes, having won his debut by five and a half lengths. (Previously Futurity Stakes winners included legendary sire Giant’s Causeway).
The classy Point Lonsdale would go on to win both the G2 Ire-Incentive, It Pays To Buy Huxely Stakes and G3 SP Or Better Guaranteed With Tote Alleged Stakes at four when he also ran third in the G1 Dahlbury Coronation Cup.
However, it was at five when Point Lonsdale put up one of his most impressive performances. He romped home to thrash multiple group winner Arrest by five and a half lengths in the G3 tote.co.uk Ormonde Stakes.
During his globetrotting career, Point Lonsdale accounted for numerous high-class performers including G1 winners Auguste Rodin, Bay Bridge, Dubai Honour, Duke De Sessa, Iresine, Onesto, and Tunnes.
Point Lonsdale is one of over 40 stakes winners for his triple G1 winning sire Australia, a classically bred son of Epsom classic winners Galileo and Ouija Board.
Among Australia’s top performers are such G1 winners as Order Of Australia (Breeders’ Cup Mile), Galileo Chrome (St Leger), Mare Australis (Prix Ganay), Ocean Road (Gamely Stakes), and Point Lonsdale’s champion own brother Broome.
Galileo has enjoyed plenty of success in South Africa, with his SA progeny including such champions as Igugu and Mahbooba, as well as the dams of G1 winners Dyce, Green With Envy, and Hero’s Honour.
His sire sons in South Africa include the likes of Kingsbarns and The United States, while the much missed New Predator was sired by Galileo son New Approach. Another son of Galileo, Global View, is the sire of reigning South African Horse Of The Year Dave The King.
Point Lonsdale also hails from an outstanding female line. He is one of three multiple group winners produced by the Acclamation sired Listed National Stakes/Listed Bedanken Stakes winner Sweepstake.
The latter, whose sire is also responsible for Hong Kong superstar Romantic Warrior and champion sire Dark Angel, also ranks as the dam of Point Lonsdale’s champion full-brother Broome.
Ireland’s Champion Older Male in both 2021 and 2022, Broome earned more than £2 000 000 in a career that saw him compete in all of Britain, France, Ireland, Japan, Hong Kong, the UAE, and the USA. His nine career victories, of which eight came in black-type races, included the 2021 G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.
Sweepstake is also dam of the top-class Diego Velazquez (by Galileo’s son Frankel), a 2,400,000 guineas purchase from the 2022 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. To date, Diego Velazquez has won four of eight starts including the 2023 G2 KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes. The son of Frankel also won last year’s G2 Tonybet Solonaway Stakes and G3 Meld Stakes before suffering a setback which saw him miss the G1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.
The impeccably bred Point Lonsdale hails from a high-class family, with his relatives including the short-lived, but hugely successful sire and G1-winning two-year-old, Zoffany, as well as the Galileo sired G1 James Squire Metropolitan winner Land Legend and group-winning two-year-olds Elite Status, Wilshire Boulevard, and Rostropovich.
