Blue Gum Farm sire Turffontein heads to the Inglis VOBIS Gold Sale with a superb strike-rate among his first two crops.

He’s sired the winners of 10 races in the last few weeks and among them are 2014 VOBIS Gold graduates Dance With Fontein and Lyuba.

Dance With Fontein cost just $2,000 and has won 3 of her last 4 starts at Ararat, Kyneton and Pakenham for a large syndicate and trainer Robbie Griffiths.  “Since winning her maiden, she has come ahead in leaps and bounds,” jockey Ryan Maloney said after her latest victory on Sunday.  “She’s going really well and when I asked her for an effort, she quickened up and dug deep.”

Turffontein filly Lyuba was another $2,000 graduate for trainer Darren Weir at the 2014 VOBIS Gold Sale and she is unbeaten in three starts at Donald and Sandown Hillside & Lakeside.

There are three fillies and a colt by Turffontein this year at Oaklands and Blue Gum has entered the filly from Encosta Di Hero as Lot 201.  Her older half-sister Louisville Lass is a last-start winner at Ballarat.

Blue Gum sales manager Chris Kent was also parading yearlings by Blue Gum stallions Canford Cliffs and Glass Harmonium at Oaklands on Thursday.  “The Canford Cliffs filly from Caponi is a lovely type,” he said.  “The Canford Cliffs are screaming out to be three year-olds.”

Blue Gum has also catalogued a Canford Cliffs – Crevasse colt among the Supplementary Catalogue (Lot 301).  He developed an abscess and was withdrawn from the Melbourne Premier last month.

“Our Glass Harmonium colt is the only yearling by the sire at the VOBIS Gold Sale,” Kent continued.  “He was test bred to a handful of mares in 2013 and there are 6 yearlings from that first-season.”

The Glass Harmonium – Picune colt is a grey and is the first foal of a mare who descends from Dahlia.

TURFFONTEIN – ENCOSTA DI NERO FILLY