He may be out of the champion broodmare Staging, but this picture proves that Duporth is in every way his father’s son. As this digitally created image shows, the similarities between Duporth and his sire Red Ransom are quite uncanny. “They are dead ringersfor each other, except that Red Ransom looks a bit older when this picture was taken, but type wise, he’s the spitting imageof his father,” Duporth’s owner/breeder Peter Moran said.
“You can only presume that he is going to pass on the same sort of stock and at that should make them very saleable as yearlings. “Everyone who has had a look at him, there’s been no negative reports at all, everyone’s loved the horse and a great majority of breeders have booked their mare in because of his looks.” Duporth is about to embark on his first season at Kitchwin Hills Stud at Scone alongside Dane Shadow, sire of Shellscrape et al.

“It’s hard say how many mares he will serve exactly but we are looking at about 150,” says Moran. “I am sending him a lot of my best mares, including Tarcoola Diamond who I bought for $420,000 at Easter this year specifically to go to Duporth.” Moran revealed that Duporth very nearly made a one-way trip across the Tasman to stand at one of New Zealand’s leading stud farms. “Waikato Stud made an offer on the horse but, I decided I wanted to keep the horse basically, I have a lot of faith in him and if he went to New Zealand he’d be out of my reach,” he said. Gerry Harvey also expressed an interest in Duporth (and his halfbrother Tickets) to stand at his Shakey Isle’s base, Westbury Stud. “Eliza Park were chasing him too,” Moran added.

“Kitchwin have only had the one stallion and have done a great job with him.” As one of about a dozen Red Ransom sons availableto breeders to Australia this season, Duporth is armed with a peerless CV. “Duporth is the only son of Red Ransom at stud this year to win a Group One over 1200m, he won a San Domenico, he beat Apache Cat to win his Group One and he won the Golden Rose – and the Rose is what they are selling Denman off.” One of the mares who Moran has ear-marked for Duporth in 2010 is Rubitano’s stakeswinning sister Rubitoff, whose Redoute’s Choice twoyear- old, Achievements, is highly rated by his owner/ breeder. “Achievements is due to race on Saturday but I don’t know if he’ll get a run,” Moran said. “Peter (Moody) has classed him as one of his best two-year-olds and he’s being set for Golden Rose. “It’s a long way off but he’s got plenty of ability.” Meanwhile, theaforementioned Tickets has a new home, having been amicably transferredfrom Moody’s Caulfield stables to Joseph Pride’s Randwick lodgings.