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Leading Hong Kong trainer John Size will welcome talented three-year-old Bourbonaire to his stable after his purchase out of Stephen Marsh’s Cambridge barn.
The son of Darci Brahma has had just five starts for a win and second placings in the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), Gr.2 Sarten Memorial Stakes (1400m), and Gr.2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m).
Purchased out of Little Avondale Stud’s 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft for $120,000, Bourbonaire was raced by Marsh in partnership with an American-based group of thoroughbred enthusiasts, including former pilot and corporate chief executive Dennis Foster with bloodstock agents Mike McMahon and Jamie Hill, who oversee the Bourbon Lane Stable Partnership.
Marsh said it’s bittersweet to lose his stable’s flagbearer, who was beaten by the barest of margins in the Guineas, but the money on offer was too good to turn down.