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Around The Horn scores at Murray Bridge to become his sires first winner in Australia.
Darley stallion Golden Horn (Cape Cross) was represented by his first winner in Australia on Wednesday as the Tony and Calvin McEvoy-trained Around The Horn (3 c ex Paper Round by Street Cry) made a winning debut over 1600 metres at Murray Bridge.
The three-year-old colt stayed on strongly to beat Muffla (Free Eagle) by half a length, while Mr Pocket (Sweynesse) was another neck away in third.
The colt was purchased by Rifa Mustang for $425,000 at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale from the Daisy Hill draft and she is out of unraced Street Cry (Machiavellian) mare Paper Round, who was purchased by Seamus Mills and Yulong Investments for 80,000gns at the 2016 Tattersalls July Sale and put into foal to Golden Horn and then shipped to Australia.
Robert Roulston Bloodstock then purchased the mare for $300,000 at the 2017 Inglis Chairman's Sale Breeding Prospects, carrying Around The Horn in utero.
Paper Round herself is out of Group 3 winner New Morning (Sadler's Wells), who produced four winners.
New Morning herself is out of Group 1 winner Hellenic (Darshaan), who in turn produced multiple Group 1-winning mare Islington (Sadler's Wells), fellow elite level scorers Mountain High (Danehill) and Greek Dance (Sadler's Wells) and Group 3 winner Election Day.
Hellenic also produced stakes-placed mare Desert Beauty (Green Desert), who is herself the grandam of Fiorente (Monsun), who landed the Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) in 2013 and now stands at Sun Stud in Victoria, while further back this is also the same family as Listed winner and multiple Group 1-placegetter Tom Melbourne (Dylan Thomas).
Paper Round's colt by Coolmore Stud-based Vancouver (Medaglia d'Oro) was purchased by trainer Anthony Cummings for $80,000 at this year's Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling and she was covered by Coolmore Triple Crown-winning shuttler Justify (Scat Daddy) last season.
Golden Horn - whose oldest crop are three-year-olds - is the sire of three stakes winners, headed by Group 3 winner West End Girl and he stood at Darley's Dalham Hall base in Newmarket for a fee of £40,000 in 2020.