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Kaphero Yearlings Another Robert Sangster Legacy

admin@galloper.com.au — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:46:33 +1100

KAPHERO, one of the young sires in the powerful team that Adam Sangster has assembled at Swettenham, the stud at Nagambie in Victoria he acquired after the death of its founder, his father Robert, in April 2004, has a lot of sentimental value to him.

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Story’s Nest for Rainbird Chick Led to Years of Success

admin@galloper.com.au — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:37 +1100

ADELAIDE merchant Malcolm Reid was unlucky in the mid1940s not to have been the breeder of two successive winners of the Melbourne Cup.They were Peter, a son of two times Melbourne Cup winner Peter Pan who was overhauling the winner, Sirius, after a chequered passage when a half length second in1944, and his half-sister Rainbird, the comfortable two lengths winner in1945. Among those behind Rainbird in the 26-runner field which contested her Cup were Peter (12th), appearing in the race for the third time, and the following year’s winner Russia.

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Youthful Jack’s Breeder’s Sixty Years in Segenhoe Valley

admin@galloper.com.au — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:41:48 +1100

JIM BOWCOCK, the breeder of Youthful Jack, the Youthful Legs 6-year-old gelding who has stormed to victory in two stakes races in Tasmania in the first two weeks of this month, was bred by Jim Bowcock, a man who spent more than sixty years with the now disposed Alabama stud in the Segenhoe valley near Scone.

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Clang of Hobart Cup Victory Sounds Out for Ingham History

admin@galloper.com.au — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:58:50 +1100

TWO fleetfooted half-brothers and competent sires, Clang and Strategic, are part of the sixty years of horse history of Jack and Bob Ingham, the west Sydney farmers who plucked a fortune out of chook growing and processing.

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Darley Storm Cat Dynasty Shuttlers Enjoy Juvenile Success

admin@galloper.com.au — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:36:40 +1100

TWO sires from the Storm Cat male line who have been shuttled by Darley enjoyed juvenile success at the weekend.The winners were Looking Ahead, a 2.3 lengths victor at Perth’s Ascot by Consolidator, a visitor to Darley’s Northwood stud in Victoria in 2006 and 2008, and Lil Red Corvette, a filly successful at Moonee Valley on Friday night in the first Australian crop of Henny Hughes.

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New 2yo Winner More Joy for Singleton and Harvey

admin@galloper.com.au — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:31:32 +1100

LATER GATOR, an eye-catching four lengths debut juvenile winner at Canterbury on Friday night, provides more joy for longtime mates John Singleton and Gerry Harvey, although they do not share ownership.

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Bel Sprinter’s Genes Have Much Caviar Flavour

admin@galloper.com.au — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:03:51 +1100

BEL SPRINTER, the comfortable winner of the $100,000 United Arab Emirates Stakes over 1000m at Caulfield on Saturday, possesses much of the genes that threw up current sprinting world superqueen Black Caviar, and, also, it appears, nearly as good a turn of foot.

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Big Brown’s Sire Reaches Boundary of Life

admin@galloper.com.au — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:36:00 +1100

BOUNDARY, the Danzig sire who died in America this week at the age of 22, was not an exceptional racehorse or sire, but in his second last season of use, 2004, impregnated a modest Nureyev winner named Mien, resulting in a foal who under the name of Big Brown awed the world with his ability and who could, in the near future, have a big input into Australian racing and breeding.

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Dubleo a Worthy Alternative to More Than Ready

admin@galloper.com.au — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:24:55 +1100

WINNERS at Moonee Valley on Friday night and Canterbury on Saturday, January 27 and 28, Koonoomoo and Skateboard, were further suggestions to breeders that if they find the shuttling More Than Ready (2011 fee $99,000) beyond their budgets, one of his associates at the Vinery stud in the Hunter Valley offers a lot of the same genes at far more modest cost.

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Queensland Stud’s Freakish Input Into Juvenile Race

admin@galloper.com.au — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:19:47 +1100

APPEARANCE of the Trevor Rowe (Cairns) trained sixth placed Falvelon gelding Blufalo in the juvenile event at Townsville on Tuesday of this week stopped a freakish occurrence in world racing. Without Blufalo, every one of the eight runners left in the field were bred on the one stud, had associated owners and prepared by the one trainer, Gympie based Peter Fleming.