Arrowfield Stud is making inroads on two fronts in New Zealand this season.

Champion sire Redoute’s Choice has King’s Rose heading for Champion 3YO Filly honours after dominant victories in the G1 1000 Guineas, G2 Royal Stakes and G3 Eulogy Stakes.

And Arrowfield young gun Charge Forward soared to the top of the NZ 2YO sires’ premiership when his colt Fort Lincoln earned $550,000 for winning the Karaka Million at Elleslie on Sunday.

Fort Lincoln (2c Charge Forward – Belle Toujours by Flying Spur) slipped through along the rails to claim the million-dollar feature by a nose from Antonio Lombardo (Pins) and the favourite Planet Rock (Fastnet Rock).

The winner is trained by Lisa Latta at Awapuni and started a $42 outsider after a run of four defeats since winning at Otaki in October.  He was bred by Joan Egan and the late Marilyn Kent and sold to Lincoln Farms Ltd for $110,000 at the 2010 NZB Premier Sale at Karaka.

Egan and her husband Peter breed from about ten mares based at Legacy Lodge near Hamilton on the North Island.  Peter Egan was a member of the syndicates that raced G1 winners St Reims (NZ Derby) and San Luis (Awapuni Sires’ Produce Stakes).

Fort Lincoln’s dam Belle Toujours is a sister to Champion 2YO Filly Flying Babe (Flying Spur) and a half-sister to G2 winner Belle Femme (Zeditave).

The Egans sent Belle Toujours and Belle Femme to Charge Forward in 2008 and those colts are catalogued for the 2011 NZB Premier yearling sale that starts at Karaka on Monday.

Charge Forward is a son of Red Ransom from the Bletchingly mare Sydney’s Dream and offers a valuable outcross option for Northern Dancer line mares.  He has a particular affinity for Flying Spur mares.  That cross has a 50% winning strike rate with Group 1 filly Headway and Fort Lincoln leading the way.

A high-class juvenile himself, Charge Forward won the G2 Todman Slipper Trial and ran Dance Hero to a short-neck in the G1 Golden Slipper.  He trained on to win the G1 AJC Galaxy as a three year-old.

Charge Forward was Australia’s Champion first-season sire in 2008-09 and, to date, has sired 47 individual winners from 102 starters.  Arrowfield stood him for a $33,000 fee in 2010.