Home Affairs X Marchena 1yo Filly

Monarch Racing is proud to present a powerhouse, early 2yo prospect by Australia’s hottest young Stallion Home Affairs. Purchased from the Coolmore Draft at the 2026 Inglis Classic Sales, in partnership with Australia’s top dream team of Judges, Paul Moroney / Catheryne Bruggeman / Bruce Slade. Not your typical small speedy 2yo type, this filly has good size, scope and is extremely strong as a physical, she will be a runner at 2 and has the scope to continue to improve beyond. A genuine prospect for 2yo Black type pathways including the 2 Million Dollar, Inglis Millennium next year. Her mother was Group 3 placed and an extremely fast daughter of Deep Field, with the injection of Home Affairs she is simply bred to be a flying machine. She is BOBS Bonus, Golden Slipper & Inglis Bonus Nominated. To be Trained by Australia’s best 2yo trainers in Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott, Randwick NSW. Extremely limited shares available, we highly recommend you secure your shares today.

The highest prize money earning colt by I Am Invincible – and one of that Champion Sire’s 17 Gr.1 winners amongst his 120 stakes winners – Home Affairs caught the eye from the start Bred by Torryburn Stud, the eye-catching bay was a $875,000 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale purchase for Coolmore and during his first campaign he was able to prove himself amongst Australia’s best two-year-olds. Working hard as favourite off an awkward start at his debut in the Gr.3 Canonbury Stakes, Home Affairs was only just beaten – atoning with a strong on pace victory in the Gr.2 Silver Slipper Stakes at just his second start. Right in the thick of things when third behind Anamoe in the Gr.2 Todman Stakes, Home Affairs was unplaced but sound in the Gr.1 Golden Slipper Stakes quinelled by Stay Inside and Anamoe.The majority of I Am Invincible’s progeny are better at three than two and Home Affairs was no exception, first up at that age defeating Paulele in the Listed Heritage Stakes – earning himself a place in the rich Everest in which he was not disgraced taken on the older, more seasoned horses – that race won by Nature Strip. Back to his own age group contesting the Gr.1 Coolmore Stud Stakes down the famous Flemington straight, Home Affairs travelled beautifully in the lead and was never going to lose; his three length victory over the best of the country’s best young sprinters a most impressive one. Again taking on the older horses in the Gr.1 Lightning Stakes a few months later, Home Affairs again put his natural pace on display – also showing plenty of heart, digging deep when challenged over the final stages by Nature Strip with Eduardo another 1 1/2 lengths away in third. Not in the right part of the track when unplaced but not disgraced in the Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap, Home Affairs headed to Royal Ascot where he raced a bit keenly in the Gr.1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes. Retired to Coolmore as the winner of four of his ten starts and over $2.29 million, Home Affairs was immediately popular, serving 203 mares in his first season – maintaining the numbers and quality of his books ever since. Creating a stir when first making their way to the yearling sales, Home Affairs’ progeny have always been in high demand and continue to be so with his first crop of two-year-olds so successfully hitting the track. Currently Australia’s leading first season sire (also leading the way in New Zealand), Home Affairs has four winners and seven placegetters amongst his first 17 runners.A winner at debut, Kinnaird became his sire’s first stakes winner when taking out the Gr.2 Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie whilst Harvey Wallbanger (a NZ debut winner, three times placed in Group and Listed company since), Guest House (the Gr.1 Blue Diamond Stakes second favourite), Gin Twist (third in a Gr.3 Blue Diamond Preview at just her second start), I’m Ya Huckleberry (a brave debut second as favourite in the Gr.3 Breeders Plate), La Gitana (third behind the Blue Diamond favourite at her first start in the Gr.3 Chairman’s Stakes) and Internal Affairs (good to the line when second in the Listed Inglis Nursery) have all also earned early black-type. Also sire of the impressive debut winner Jacaranda, Home Affairs has made an outstanding start to his stud career. He ticks all the boxes as a stallion prospect – sire line, conformation and ability as well as breeding with his family, that descending from the famed matriarch Fanfreluche, being one of the world’s best. It is a family which has produced two outstanding local stallions in Encosta de Lago and Flying Spur, noting that the latter is Home Affairs’ dam sire.

A $200,000 Magic Millions purchase for Ciaron Maher, Marchena showed up early – racing six times as a two-year-old with a Gr.3 Ottawa Stakes placing (green but strong to the line) at her debut.  A winner over 1000m at three, Marchena is a daughter of the very fast Gr.2 winning Northern Meteor horse Deep Field. The winner of five of his eight starts, he did a great job at stud before fertility issues brought his career to an early end. Forty of his sons and daughters – including the Gr.1 gallopers Portland Sky, Voyage Bubble, Al Muthana and Sky Field – are stakes winners and he already has 13 winners including the last weekend’s stakes placegetter Missy Aggravation and the good Sydney mare Miss Spacegirl. Purchased for $185,000 as a broodmare prospect, Marchena had her first foal – a son of Wootton Bassett – make his way through the sales in 2024 and that $230,000 member of the Annabel & Rob Archibald stable was good finishing off well behind the subsequent Gr.3 winner Raging Force at his first start. Marchena has another filly by Home Affairs, her owners so impressed with the match that she paid another visit to him last spring.

A $220,000 yearling by the four time Australian Champion Sire Snitzel, Flamenco Girl was a debut winner at two over 1000m at the Sunshine Coast – run down only late when a game on pace second in the Listed Calaway Stakes at just her second start. Still at stud (served last spring by Cosmic Force), Flamenco Girl is doing well with her first three foals to race all being winners – Marchena stakes placed whilst Betterlucknexttime won his first two at Doomben at two; Roaring Thunder winning three of his 12 starts. Flamenco Girl’s Gr.1 sire Snitzel is the sire of 25 Gr.1 winners amongst 167 stakes winners and his daughters have produced another 46 stakes winners; six of whom have been successful at the elite level.

A very good race mare by the classy Green Forest horse Made Of Gold (dam sire of Starspangledbanner and Star Turn – and ten other stakes winners), Dance Girl Dance hit the ground running winning her first three starts and finishing first, second or third at each of her next four. Unlucky off a slow start when finishing off strongly for a Gr.3 Dane Ripper Stakes fifth was again great to the line when third in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Stakes and the Listed Just Now Quality – and so tough off a wide run when third in the Listed Leo Williams Classic. A mare who deserved to win a stakes race, Dance Girl Dance did a good job winning seven (three in town) of her 30 starts with another ten placings on her record. And she also fared very well at stud with all six of her foals making it to the track – and all being winners including the multiple city winner Don’t Tell Mama (eight wins and nine placings from 32 starts) and the city placed three time winner Bubbles Ball. Dance Girl Dance is one of the four winners produced by the Scenic mare Cabaret Girl, a half-sister to the Gr.2 Moonee Valley Stakes winner Hollowlea.

Home Affairs’ first two runners – I’m Ya Huckleberry and Gin Twist – out of mares carrying strains of Encosta de Lago (the sire line from which Marchena hails) are both exciting stakes placegetters. This is a cross expected to excel with Home Affairs’ dam sire Flying Spur being a son of the terrific mare Rolls (4 X 6 here) – the grandam of Flying Spur. And she is a granddaughter of Northern Dancer’s finest daughter Fanfreluche – the prolific fifth dam of Home Affairs. Marchena is bred on a 5 X 6 cross of another influential mare in Fairy Bridge who appears via her sons, the full brothers Fairy King (sire of Encosta de Lago) and Sadler’s Wells.  Home Affairs meanwhile has a strain of Nureyev (sire of his second dam sire Stravinsky) – 3/4 brother to Fairy King and Sadler’s Wells out of Fairy Bridge’s wonderful dam Special. These close relations combine exceptionally well – Nureyev and Sadler’s Wells in 1484 stakes winners including 225 Gr.1 horses – Nureyev and Fairy King in 158 stakes winners including 24 Gr.1 winners. In short, Fairy Bridge and Special are amongst the most prolific modern day line-breeding forces. As is the Kentucky Oaks heroine Lalun whose sons Bold Reason and Never Bend both appear in this filly’s pedigree. Also boasting background crosses of the great mares Chelandry (ancestress of I Am Invincible), La Troienne, Gibside Fairy, Mumtaz Begum, Queen Mary, Sans Tares, Frizette, Pretty Polly and Tedmelia, this filly also has male strength to her pedigree with Home Affairs bred on a Canny Lad/Danehill cross – the opposite to Snitzel. There have been six stakes winners bred on this I Am Invincible/Snippets cross whilst I Am Invincible has displayed a lovely affinity for Northern Meteor (sire of Deep Field) – out of his daughters having seven runners, all of whom are winners; three stakes winners including the dual Gr.1 winner Charm Stone.