Superbly bred Silent Action stands his first season at Michael Fitzgerald’s Bengalla Stud, Muswellbrook in 2008 and offers breeders the chance to use a son of champion sire Sunday Silence for the value fee of just $3300.

Silent Action, a handsome chestnut standing 16.2 hands, was a $450,000 yearling and won five races from 1250m-2048m. He was in the money at three starts at two and continued to race in great heart in subsequent seasons.

The only son of Sunday Silence available in the Hunter Valley this year, he offers owner-breeders in particular to access the most successful branch of the Halo male line via US Horse of the Year and Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence (Halo-Wishing Well by Understanding).

Sunday Silence was Champion Sire in Japan from 1994-2006 (inclusive) and his 169 stakes winners include 43 Gr.1 winners led by Deep Impact, Dance Partner, Dance in the Dark (sire of 2006 Melbourne Cup winner Delta Blues (JPN)), and shuttle sires like Tayasu Tsuyoshi (JPN) (sire of VRC Oaks/Arrowfield Stud Stakes-Gr.1 winner Hollow Bullet) and Genuine (JPN) (sire of Australian Cup-Gr.1 winner Pompeii Ruler.

The Halo sireline was really firing last season with its Australian-bred representatives including the Golden Slipper winner Sebring, by Champion Sire of 2YOs More Than Ready (USA) (Southern Halo), while the unraced Sunday Silence horse Any Given Sunday (now deceased) sired the Queensland Oaks and Derby heroine Riva San and shuttler and Sunday Silence son Fuji Kiseki (JPN) had the winner of the Dubai Sheema Classic-Gr.1 winner via his Australian-bred daughter and dual South African Gr.1 winner Sun Classique.

Silent Action’s dam Nance Chrissie (Bluebird (USA)-Clystalla (USA) by Pia Star) is a sister to South African Gr.1 winner Race Master and Group-placed Chagall (sire) and a half-sister to triple Oaks (VRC, AJC, QTC) heroine November Rain (Estaminet (GB)), dam of the South African Oaks-Gr.2 winner Stormy Hill (Danehill (USA)) and grandam of Shannon Stakes-Gr.2 winner Stormhill (Danehill) and South Australian Derby-Gr.1 runner-up Hurricane Storm.

Nance Chrissie is also a half-sister to Star Style Girl (Without Fear (FR)), whose five wins included the Queen of the South Stakes-Gr.2 and who is the dam of Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes-Gr.1 winner and sire San Luis (Flying Spur).

Nance Chrissie is by one of the best of the early shuttlers, Bluebird (Storm Bird-Ivory Dawn by Sir Ivor), a brilliant sprinter who won the King’s Stand Stakes-Gr.1 (5f) at Royal Ascot by four lengths and left 13 Gr.1 winners among his 73 stakes winners, notably Flitter, the successful sire Dolphin Street (FR), Azzurro and Lake Coniston (IRE) (sire). His daughters have produced 37 stakes winners led by seven Gr.1 winners including Universal Prince, Yell, Thorn Park and Zaglia.

Silent Action’s second dam Clystalla (ex Glass of Fashion by Ambiorix) is a half-sister to the American Gr.1 winner Trojan Bronze (by Australian champion Tobin Bronze).

Glass of Fashion, Silent Action’s fourth dam is intensely inbred to a famous family being by Ambiorix (Tourbillon-Lavendula by Pharos) and from Giff Gaff (Nasrullah-Source Sucree by Admiral Drake). Giff Gaff, a three-quarter sister to multiple Gr.1 winner and successful sire Turn-to (great-grandsire of Sunday Silence) is a daughter of Lavendula (Pharos-Sweet Lavender by Swynford). Lavendula’s descendants also include My Babu, Irish River, Sayani, Cagire and English Prince.

Michael Fitzgerald is keen to attract city winners and proven producers to Silent Action and owners of such mares would do well to give him a call on 0428 429 614. Bengalla Stud, also home to Gr.1 sire Bite The Bullet (USA) and young Nureyev horse Dance Dreamer (USA), is at Old Bengalla Road on the Denman side of Muswellbrook.
(Source: Breednet)