Coolmore Australia Brochure 2023

While Australia can now lay claim to producing many of the world’s finest wines, they’ve been doing it a little longer in the south-west of France. Bordeaux wine production is said to have begun sometime a ft er 43 AD, during the Roman occupation of Gaul, when the Romans established vineyards to cultivate wine for the soldiers. In time, Bordeaux became the undisputed wine capital of the world and home to many of France’s most beautiful châteaux. Our own Best Of Bordeaux announced himself on debut with a vintage performance in the Canonbury Stakes-Gr.3 at Rosehill. A month later in the Silver Slipper-Gr.2 he again displayed his brilliant speed to remain unbeaten. In the Golden Slipper-Gr.1 he was best of the colts running a gallant second to star filly Fireburn. And like many fine wines, Best Of Bordeaux improved with age adding the Roman Consul Stakes-Gr.2 as a three-year-old. Timeform’s highest rated two-year-old colt of his generation, he was a natural, front-running speed horse just like his sire Snitzel with whom he shares an uncanny resemblance. Pedigree, race performance and looks to match!

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