Breeders have an exciting opportunity to secure services to some of the industry’s most sought-after stallions in our Stallion Service Auction to support the Darling Downs Harness Racing Club. Among the elite sires on offer are Colt Thirty One, Queensland’s own million-dollar pacer and multiple Group 1 champion, and Skyvalley NZ, the proven sire of champions and a dominant force in the trotting ranks. Both stallions bring world-class bloodlines and outstanding race records, making this auction one you won’t want to miss.
Colt Thirty One
Colt Thirty One, who is standing his fourth season at Egmont Park Stud – his first crop are now yearlings – is the greatest Australian-bred stake winning pacer by the champion sire Mach Three available to breeders in this country. He won a total of $1,087,535.
His first crops are a splendid advertisement for him and as two-year-olds next season should add some interest to the juvenile scene. A yearling colt by Colt Thirty One sold at the last Redcliffe Yearling Sale for the record price of $55,000.
It can rightly be claimed of Colt Thirty One that he is one of the best bred and best performed horses ever foaled in Queensland.
Colt Thirty One was an outstanding two and three-year-old, winning 19 of his 29 starts highlighted by the Victoria Derby beating Poster Boy and Spankem. He was the second richest four-year-old and the third richest five-year-old of his year on a national scale.
A three-time Queensland Horse of the Year, Colt Thirty One won 51 races including 11 at Group level with 36 placings from 125 starts and took a mile record of 1:51.2. Among his list of successes were the Blacks A Fake, Queensland Cup, Popular Alm Free-for-all, Victoria Derby, QBred Triad 2YO, 3YO and 4YO Finals and the Be Good Johnny Sprint.
Colt Thirty One is a quality young horse bred on a classic cross of blood – that of Mach Three his sire and Perfect Art his maternal sire. Mach Three, sire of Colt Thirty One, was a leading sire of two and three-year-olds in Australia, New Zealand and North America and his progeny have earned more than $110 million.
A champion pacer himself, with a record of 1:49, Mach Three’s major victories were the $1.1 million Metro Pace, the $1 million Meadowlands Pace and the Oliver Wendell Holmes and he ran up a tally of $2,376,700 to the end of his two and three-year-old racing.
Mach Three has matched his greatness as a racehorse in the siring field, and now his sons and grandsons are achieving distinctions of the same order.
On his dam’s side, Colt Thirty One belongs to one of Australasia’s premier maternal families, that tracing to Browngate Girl. His dam Charm Personified left eight sub 2:00 winners from 10 foals and his grand-dam Charming Reminder left six sub 2:00 winners from 10 foals.
This is the family that produced this year’s NSW Oaks winner Cool And Classy, the Australian and Victoria Oaks winner Cherry Cheer, the Queensland Oaks winner Goldrush Girl, the Triad winners Girl From Ipanema, Rani Major, Racy Roxy and Red Charmer, The Hayden victor Free Thinker and many others.
Skyvalley NZ
Skyvalley NZ, the sire of one of the greatest trotters raced in NZ and Australia in Tornado Valley ($1,033,977) and an outstanding racemare in Pink Galahs ($333,549), is without question one of the most proved trotting sires available to breeders in this country.
He has been the leading colonial bred trotting sire since his first crop raced in 2013/14, is again the premier sire in this category in 2025 and is ranked third on the all aged sires’ list with progeny earnings of over $560,000. Siring 34 individual winners this season to date including the Inter Dominion heat winner Golden Sunset, the WA Trotters Cup winner Patched and the metropolitan winners Kyvalleyhoneybunny, Timmy Turtle, Kyvalley Finn, Aldebaran Sundown and Old Villa Boy.
Overall, Skyvalley is the sire of the winners of more than $7.7 million including 24 $100,000 earners, six $200,000 earners, seven Group 1 winners and six Group winning two and three-year-olds including three Vicbred champions.
Besides Tornado Valley and Pink Galahs, Skyvalley’s top performers include Patched ($304,178), Kyvalley Finn ($291,611), Sky Petite ($251,015), Kyvalley Boomerang ($246,834), Golden Sunset ($198,360), Fear Not ($196,555), Flash Kyvalley ($193,674), Scenic Sky ($175,461), Aldebaran Eve ($158,508) and Blue Sky Commander NZ ($152,536).
Skyvalley boasts an amazing winners-to-starters strike rate of 70 percent and has average earnings per starter of almost $40,000.
He is now starting to make a real impact as a broodmare sire. Among his credits are boom Victorian trotter Im Bobby ($189,890), Banglez (2020 2YO Filly Trotter of the Year, Just A Bit Touchy (2021 2YO Filly Trotter of the Year), Super Service ($112,764), Lady Adelia ($101,010), the exported Lair Of The Eagle and the SA Southern Cross winner Bacardi Bindy.
Skyvalley is unquestionably one of the best bred and best performed trotting stallions ever to stand stud in this country. From 47 starts he won 24 and was 13 times placed for $322,675 in stakes. He won six races at Group level and was placed a further three times and established three national records.
Among his major successes were the Breeders Crown at 3 and 4, the Bill Collins Mile, Scotch Notch Memorial, Freestone Cup and the Melton Trotters Cup.
Skyvalley is a son of the former world No.1 sire in Muscles Yankee 1:52.4, now a champion sire of sires and a champion broodmare sire. Muscles Yankee has sired the winners of over $100 million in stakes and at this stage is credited with 146 on the 1:55 list. In the Southern Hemisphere Muscles Yankee is best represented by the dual Inter Dominion champion I Can Doosit.
Not only is Skyvalley a son of Muscles Yankee, but on his distaff side he can claim equal distinctions. He is a half-brother to a champion trotting mare in Allegro Agitato 1:57.8 ($529,854), a multiple winner at Group 1 level in NZ and Australia.
Their dam, Chiola’s Lass ($157,779), was one of the leading daughters of a champion trotting sire in Chiola Hanover. She won 10 of her 17 starts including the Victoria Oaks, NZ Great Northern Derby and The Holmfield and was voted the NZ Trotter of the Year at 2 and 3.
From APG Media
