Demarchelier another promising Tattersalls recruit for Chad Brown

Chad Brown’s visits to Tattersalls are continuing to pay dividends as Demarchelier became the latest graduate from Park Paddocks to obtain notable success in America.

The Eclipse Award-winning trainer was rewarded with his enterprising visits to Newmarket by the exploits of Lope De Vega’s Newspaperofrecord, who took the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ as a 200,000gns purchase by Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables.

Digital Age, the son of Invincible Spirit who cost 325,000gns at the same event, has looked another bright prospect in extending his unbeaten career record to three in the Grade 2 American Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Demarchelier also formed part of that Book 1 raiding party in 2017, being picked up by the White Barn Farm operation of businessman and breeder Peter Brant.

The son of Dubawi was a 425,000gns acquisition from Newsells Park Stud. She is out of Sadler’s Wells mare Loveisallyouneed, an immaculately-bred sister to the likes of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Yesterday and the Moyglare Stud Stakes scorer Quarter Moon.

He has been raised gradually through the ranks in events at Aqueduct and Keeneland before his stakes debut in the Grade 3 Pennine Ridge Stakes over nine furlongs on the grass, holding on by a neck from Juddmonte’s Seismic Wave.

Value Proposition, yet another 2017 Tattersalls buy for 400,000gns for Brown and Klaravich Stables, made the early running but dropped away to be last.

Brown told BloodHorse: "We were fortunate to have Peter Brant step up and buy this horse on our first trip to Tattersalls. He bought us a nice colt who is perfect so far.

"Peter is very involved and very knowledgeable. We all work together as a team, and [bloodstock agent] Mike Ryan helped in picking him out. Peter is not just the guy who writes the cheques. He knows what he's doing."

This event was a stepping stone for top-level company in next month’s Belmont Derby Invitational, with Brown adding: "It looks like the plan is coming together. Obviously he's a top-quality horse. He's well bred and has been very well ridden each time [by Javier Castellano]. It's exciting to have a horse headed to the Belmont Derby."

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