Bivouac began his racing career with a second placing at Randwick, followed by a third placing three months later at the same track. His third start in a race was at Warwick Farm racecourse in the Listed Lonhro Plate. Starting at odds of $6.50 he won by a length under jockey Blake Shinn. Immediately after the race assistant trainer Darren Beadman said, "Being on his home track he had a big advantage. He is a real little professional, he just gets the job done".
After finishing unplaced at his next start in the Todman Stakes, Bivouac was listed as the first emergency for the Golden Slipper Stakes, however he failed to gain a start. Two weeks later he started in the Kindergarten Stakes at Group 3 level at the odds of $6. He won the race by 2 lengths with Blake Shinn in the saddle again. After the race Shinn stated, "He's a very exciting horse, he won dominantly today as he did when I won on him at Warwick Farm."
2019/20: three-year-old season
Bivouac resumed racing as a three-year-old in the Vain Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse. Starting as a $3 favourite he won the race by over 4 lengths. As a result of his dominant win in the Vain Stakes, his next start he was installed the $1.35 favourite in the San Domenico Stakes but finished in second place.
Bivouac's next start he was successful in The Run to the Rose Stakes. Two weeks later he contested his first Group 1 race, the Golden Rose Stakes at Rosehill racecourse. He won under jockey Hugh Bowman as the $2.50 favourite. His trainer James Cummings described watching Bivouac win the Golden Rose as ‘poetry in motion’.
Bivouac started $1.80 favourite at his next start in the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse. Starting from barrier 1, the horse drifted back through the field and was blocked for runs throughout the race, eventually finishing in 6th position. Jockey Kerrin McEvoy said after the race, "He was a little bit unlucky. He was three-back the fence and I never really got to let him off the bridle at all". Some however were critical of McEvoy's ride. Columnist Richard Callander believed that the Manikato Stakes was a major race that got away from McEvoy and made him pose the question "Was Kerrin McEvoy asleep at the wheel on Bivouac?" Bivouac contested the Coolmore Stud Stakes a week later and was narrowly beaten into second place for jockey Hugh Bowman.
Bivouac was then sent for a three-month spell and returned to racing in the 2020 Oakleigh Plate. After settling in the back half of the field, he flashed home late to finish 6th, beaten 2.5 lengths. Next start he contested the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington Racecourse. Ridden by jockey Glen Boss, he started at odds of $5.50 and won the race comfortably by 2.5 lengths. Boss said, "It’s amazing when you get on these colts, just going to the barriers, I knew I was a winner, you can just tell when they’re on. He went down to the barriers like he really meant business, every stride he took he had his game face on.”
On 20 May 2020 Bivouac finished third in the William Reid Stakes, before unplaced runs in the TJ Smith Stakes and All Aged Stakes.
2020/21: four-year-old season
After running placings in The Shorts and The Everest, on both occasions beaten by Classique Legend, Bivouac started at odds of $3.20 in the Group 1 VRC Sprint Classic. Ridden by Glen Boss he won by over 3 lengths, beating the reigning Australian Horse of the Year, Nature Strip.
Bivouac would not start for another 3 months when resuming on the 13 February 2021 in the Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington over 1,000 metres. Starting the $2.15 favourite he failed to threaten in the finish, eventually being beaten into 5th place by the winner Nature Strip. After two unplaced starts in the Canterbury Stakes and TJ Smith Stakes the horse was retired from racing.
It is fair to say that Bivouac was an absolute star on the racetrack finishing with the unenviable record of having had 22 starts- 7 wins, 4 seconds and 4 thirds for $5,696,110 which included 3 GROUP 1 victories!
He has commenced his stud career in outstanding fashion and is currently Australia’s leading second crop stallion by winners (24) to 11th Feb. Standing his most current season at $55,000 at Darley, Bivouac has already sired GROUP 1 Golden Rose winner BEIWACHT, GROUP 2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes winner INTENTION, BIG SKY winner of the GROUP 3 Chairmans Stakes and the dual Stakes winner LUANA MISS. He is doing an outstanding job at stud where his oldest progeny are only three, and obviously the best days lay ahead for this brilliant son of Exceed And Excel!!
This Fillies family well and truly knows where the winning post is and is littered with winners in every dam and Black type prevalent across all distances and ages. Interestingly, we feel that 2YO action is on the cards for this filly who has a real running pedigree through the third Dam. Whilst a GROUP 1 Brisbane Derby winner in EAGLE WAY heads the list, it is a bit of an outlier as to what the Dam Wedgetail Eagle had commonly thrown which to me is very important. This family oozes speed and is crystalised via KALASHNIKOV- Winner of the GROUP 3 Canberra Black Opal, THERMAL CURRENT- Winner of the GROUP 3 Red Anchor Stakes AND the GROUP 3 SAJC DC McKay Stakes, SOARESSA- Winner of the LISTED SAJC Proud Miss Stakes, FOREVER FREE- Winner of the LISTED SAJC Queen Adelaide Stakes, IMPRESSIVE EAGLE- Winner of the LISTED SAJC Laelia Stakes and ASSERTIVE EAGLE- Winner of the LISTED SAJC Proud Miss Stakes. This is a very fast tough Sprinting family that fits the mould of our filly and more importantly, the common theme about this family is speed early on in their careers with the ability to then train on and this filly gives every suggestion that she will continue on in the tradition of her family and be a part of the action in her two year old year career as she presents as a sharp/spunky athletic filly and then to train on which is exactly what you want when you are identifying and inspecting potential yearlings to purchase!!
This is a family where the list goes on and on with winners through ALL dams with a proliferation of Black Type performers! It is indeed an outstanding pedigree and if this Filly can win any Black Type, she will be worth a good deal of money. This is a Filly that Mick and Michael feel will run as a 2YO, so understandably, we are very excited to have purchased a Filly that ticks ALL of the boxes on type, being such a stunning horse that she is, conformation and pedigree and is a Filly that I can only encourage participation in! I firmly believe that I have purchased a really nice horse here and if looks have anything to do with it (which we hope it will), she will be a success!!!
It is indeed exciting to have purchased a filly that is such an athletic type with the looks to match with a terrific hind quarter and girth, backed up with an outstanding pedigree as I have detailed and goes to one of the best trainers in Australia in Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr who United Syndications have been associated with for now 26 years and we have enjoyed much success with our horses including Black type performers LA BELLA DAME, LE BONSIR, DAMSELFLY, LOVEYAMADLY, ONPICALO, ROYAL CHARADES, ROYAL SNITZEL, IMMORTAL LOVE, I’MLOVIN’YA etc. We pride ourselves on the service that we offer to everyone, which incorporates breaking in videos, pretraining videos, and track work videos. This is a service that we are very proud of and well renowned for and allows all owners to enjoy and watch the progression of their horse from the beginning at the breakers, to all of the way through to then hopefully the winners circle in the future!
