Why Gizmo Can Be A Big Hit At Stud

REGALLY bred group 1 Topgun winner Get It Gizmo has all the attributes to make his presence felt at stud, writes breeding expert David Brasch.

VICTORIAN breeder, owner and trainer Harry Manolitsis has had a BIG couple of years.

Elevated and Get It Gizmo both won Group 1s and Flynn stamped himself one of the best of his time.

Now Harry has passed the baton over to fellow Victorian breeder Nick De La Roche who has been given the huge opportunity of standing at stud both Get It Gizmo and Flynn.

Both sons of champion sire Kinloch Brae, Get It Gizmo is out of the Go Wild Teddy bitch Dasha, while Flynn is out of the Collision bitch Jubilation, both hugely successful producers.

And, both head to stud with amazing records on the track, damlines the equal of any in the world, and a future assured.

Get It Gizmo's standout performance was in the 2019 Group 1 Topgun when he smashed a field considered possibly the best ever assembled for the invitation-only event.

His victory came at the expense of such luminaries as Feral Franky, Whiskey Riot, Good Odds Harada, Black Opium, Shima Shine, Barooga Brett and Sennachie.

Between them, those seven dogs won 177 races, $4.651 million in stakes, and won, were placed in, or made the finals of 73 Group races.

He retires with the record of 38 starts for 15 wins, seven 2nds and six 3rds for stakes of $273,000.

BUT, there was much more to Get It Gizmo than his Topgun victory even though he could stand alone on just that success.

He was third in the Group 3 Cranbourne Classic and the Group 3 Warragul St Leger, both as a young pup.

Then, as maturity grew, he was third in the Million Dollar Chase, a finalist in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup, Group 1 Maturity and Group 2 Bendigo Cup.

Get It Gizmo's damline is the equal of any.

His granddam Outlandish has become a broodbitch great, and this line is already represented by promising young stud dog Bewildering.

It is a wonderful, wonderful damline tracing to that most famous of producers Fitzroy Lass dam of legend stud dog Head Honcho (head of Victorian sire list five times).

Outlandish is also the dam of Azkaban (26 wins, $155,000, finalist MDC) and Elevated (12 wins, $153,000, G1 Sapphire Crown).

Get It Gizmo's third dam Tocsin was a sister to the dam of G1 star Aston Bolero (53 wins, $399,000), and a sister to Regal Blaze, granddam of Group 1 stars Ring The Bell (G1 Nat Distance, G1 NZ Silver Collar, G1 NZ Stayers Cup), Bells Are Ringin (G1 Sandown Cup) and Blazin' Bomber (at stud), and from a repeat mating of that litter Ringside (2nd G1 NZ Auckland Cup).

Get It Gizmo has an incredible opportunity for success at stud.

WHILE, Get It Gizmo has credentials to brag about, so too does Flynn.

His 14 wins, nine placings and almost $100,000 in stakes included a Bendigo track record of 23.37 … and at just his fifth race start!

He also picked up the ultimate test of speed, the G3 Speed Star running 29.08 around Sandown.

Add to that his victory in the Listed Ballarat Derby and you have a dog of the highest quality who goes to stud with just about every attribute any stud dog could wish for.

But, he raced the very best right throughout his career.

Flynn was also a finalist at G1 level in the Melbourne Cup and Harrison Dawson, and made the final also of the young dog's testing material, the Launching Pad.

Flynn was never a cotton wool champion. He raced the best of his era taking on such superstars as Whiskey Riot, Feral Franky, Orson Allen, Start A Riot, Tauwitchere, Jaro Bale, Last Hurrah, Barooga  Brett, Lucy's Milo etc. 

Flynn's mother Jubilation (Collision-Velocity Cloud by Bombastic Shiraz) is a litter sister to Captivating and Velocity Shirl.

Captivating is the dam of champion Black Opium (G1 Sapphire Crown, G1 Brisbane Cup, 2nd G1 Melbourne Cup, G1 Australian Cup, finalist G1 Easter Egg, G1 National Sprint, G1 Topgun, Million Dollar Chase etc) and the high class gallopers Equalizer, Immunity and Poise (finalist G1 Sapphire Crown).

Velocity Shirl is the dam of superstar stayer Velocity Bettina (17 wins, $163,000, G3 Golden Sands, G3 Super Stayers, 2nd G1 Qld Cup, finalist G1 Rookie Rebel etc).

This is the damline of legends Flying Amy and Tenthill Doll.

Flynn goes to stud with a damline full of the very best lines this country has seen … that of Collision, Bombastic Shiraz, Brett Lee and Token Prince. It allows for Flynn to be mated with confidence with so many, many lines.

 

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