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Deep Impact colt’s half-sister set to be offered on the Gold Coast.
The Chris Waller-trained Solar Apex (3 c Deep Impact - Aspen Summit by Fastnet Rock) broke through for his first victory at fifth attempt when he landed the Jim Beam Maiden Handicap (1600m) at Wyong on Saturday.
Bred by Arrowfield Stud and raced by Katsumi Yoshida, the colt forged clear to defeat Speedzone (Eurozone) by a length, while Jauhera (Artie Schiller) was another head away in third.
Purchased by Yoshida from Arrowfield for $300,000 at the 2019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, the colt is out of dual-winning Fastnet Rock (Danehill) mare Aspen Summit.
Aspen Summit is herself a daughter of Aspen Falls (Hennessy), whose progeny is headed by 2009 Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) Irish Lights (Fastnet Rock), who is in turn the dam of Group 2 scorer and Group 1 performed Omei Sword (High Chaparral) and Listed scorer Lippizzaner (Uncle Mo).
The colt also shares a page with Wakefield Challenge Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) winner La Italia (Stravinsky) and Japanese Grade 1 winner Asia Express (Henny Hughes).
Aspen Summit's colt by Arrowfield Stud resident Dundeel (High Chaparral) was purchased by Bon Ho's Legend Racing for $270,000 at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and he is now called Peak Legend and is unraced.
Arrowfield Stud will offer the mare's 2019 filly by Real Impact (Deep Impact) at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale later this month and she has been catalogued as Lot 1163. Last year the mare produced a colt by the operation's former shuttler Real Steel (Deep Impact) and she was covered last breeding season by Castelvecchio (Dundeel).
Deep Impact, who stood at the Shadai Stallion Station for his whole breeding career, died in 2019 and he was represented by his sire sons Tosen Stardom, who stands at Woodside Park Stud and Coolmore Stud-based Saxon Warrior in Australia last season.