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Kaphero Yearlings Another Robert Sangster Legacy
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.
Story’s Nest for Rainbird Chick Led to Years of Success
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...
Youthful Jack’s Breeder’s Sixty Years in Segenhoe Valley
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.
Clang of Hobart Cup Victory Sounds Out for Ingham History
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.
Darley Storm Cat Dynasty Shuttlers Enjoy Juvenile Success
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...
New 2yo Winner More Joy for Singleton and Harvey
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.
Bel Sprinter’s Genes Have Much Caviar Flavour
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.
Big Brown’s Sire Reaches Boundary of Life
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....
Dubleo a Worthy Alternative to More Than Ready
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.
Queensland Stud’s Freakish Input Into Juvenile Race
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.
Sixty Years After Kingster, Les Gibson Buys in Sydney Again
RARE anywhere in the world in horse selling would have been the purchase of two yearlings at last week’s Inglis Sydney Classic sale by a buyer who bought his first horse at the same sales centre nearly sixty years earller.
NZ Juvenile Star in First Crop of Show a Heart’s Cousin
AUSTRALIAN Bloodstock, a Newcastle region based enterprise which has become a significant player in Australian racing, got some solace for narrowly missing out on glory in last year’s Melbourne Cup, a race in which their imported German entry Lucas Cranach finished third, when their part owned colt Ockham’s Razor was successful in the Listed Karaka Million at Ellerslie...
Roaming Gloaming Heads Victorian Sale Trifecta
ACCEPTING that Black Caviar, now unbeaten in her seventeen outings following her success at Moonee Valley last Friday night, is qualified and is heading in due course for listing in the Hall of Fame, she is the third leg of a trifecta of giants of Australian racing who were bred in Victoria and offered at their yearling sales.
Victoria Derby Winner to Upgrade Packer’s Polo Ponies
AMALFI, the 2001 Victoria Derby winner who was represented by three winners over four days, January19-22, has embarked on a new career as a sire, and that is supplying outcross vigor in breeding the Packer’s polo ponies at Ellerston on the mountain slopes east of Scone.
Cavalry Rose Has a Golden Slipper Heritage
CAVALRY ROSE, the winner on debut at Rosehill Gardens for a Triple Crown Syndicate and the Gerald Ryan stables of this year’s $250,000 Inglis Classic for 2-year-olds who graduated from their Classic sale, in doing so showed all the courage and ability that saw her sire Charge Forward and paternal ‘half-brother’ Headland each exhibited in finishing second in the...
Flemington Double Shows Bianconi One of Best Value Sires
ONE of the best value sires by world giant speed influence Danzig appears to be consistent top grade Victorian located winner getter Bianconi (USA), the source of a double, Royal Mail (won over 2000m) and Flyingconi (1400m), at Flemington on Saturday and of Glisson, a three lengths winner at 1200m on the Hobart Guineas program on Sunday.
NZ Sprint Win Recalls American Mating of Exported Aussies
BRIGAND, a handy middle distance stakes performer in France and America who, from his use at the Waikato stud in New Zealand, supplied champion Australian sprinter River Rough and Caulfield Cup winner Cole Diesel, has a close connection in blood with the maternal breeding of Avant, the grandam of Guiseppina, the 5-year-old Johar (USA) (by Gone West) mare who came with a...
Karuta Queen’s Half-brother Another Brave Heart
KARUTA QUEEN, the Neville Layt (Queanbeyan) trained Turangga stud bred Not a Single Doubt filly who has turned in some dazzling front running displays in recording six wins, including appearances in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast (Magic Millions 2YO Classic), and who was runner up to Black Caviar in the Schillaci at Caulfield last spring, looks set to rocket to more glory in...
First American Foal for Victorian Visiting Kentucky Derby Winner
BREEDING of a filly foal which arrived in Kentucky this week combines two sires used in Australia, being the first by year 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver (USA), a debut visitor at Eliza Park, Kerrie, Victoria in 2011, and from Yield of Faith, a mare by High Yield (USA), a Storm Cat triple Group1 winner used over an aggregate of 387 mares in four visits, 2001-200, to...
Former Shuttlers the Champion Sires of America and Europe
Distorted Humor (by the Mr. Prospector sire Forty Niner), the leading North American sire of 2011 who traveled to Victoria in1999 and 2000, is the fourth to take their Champion sire title who has shuttled to Australia, the others being Thunder Gulch (on top in 2001) (Kentucky Derby winner by the Mr. Prospector sire Gulch), Elusive Quality (2004) (set world record for a mile; by...
American Supersire Unwanted by Top Breeders in Australia
ALTHOUGH he had books of 78 and 81 respectively on his two visits to Victoria in1999 and 2000, Distorted Humor, now one of the most consistent high rank sires in America, including being their champion for 2011, wasn’t wanted by top breeders and had restricted opportunity in leading stables. Despite this, the 15.3 hand showy chestnut by the Mr. Prospector sire Forty Niner...
Eureka Stud Bred Sprinters to Boom Interstate
SPIRIT OF BOOM, the 4-year-old stallion who has taken out two successive majors at the Gold Coast in fine style this month, the $100,000 Goldmarket on January 2 and then the $400,000 R.M. Magic Millions Cup on January 14 , is a half-brother by the Lyndhurst stud sire Sequalo to Temple of Boom, winner 12 months earlier of the $200,000 Magic Millions Sprint.
Green Wings Puts a Spring in Veteran Horseman’s Step
VETERAN horseman Jim Buchanan, the founder for clients of the Palmaday stud, now Secret Hills Farm, near Beaudesert in Queensland, has a variety of reasons to have a new spring in his step following the bold start to its racing career in New Zealand of the Dr Green 2-year-old Green Wings.
School Blue Produces Very Good Punches
PUNCH ON, the filly by the Darley shuttled Ireland bred Danehill sire Tiger Hill bought for $16,000 out of the Basil Nolan Raheen stud draft at the 2010 Magic Millions Queensland breeders yearling sale, the QTIS 600 series, who beat off another Queenslander, the Easy Rocking gelding Easy Running, to nose to victory in this year’s running of the million dollar Gold Coast...
Magic Millions 2yo Classic Winner a Memorial to Breeder
DRIEFONTEIN, the Fastnet Rock filly who collected the glory in the stewards room on Saturday (January 14) of being the winner of the 2012 edition of the $2million BMW Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast after being second across the line after a tigerish battle with stablemate No Looking Back (by Redoute’s Choice), is a memorial to the contributions of the late Ed...
Dystopia’s Immediate Family Something to Lord About
DYSTOPIA, the 5-year-old Redoute’s Choice mare trained for the Bob Ingham headed Ingham Racing Syndicate by Chris Waller who lowered the 1300m record to 1:15.26 when she recorded a dynamic 2.5 lengths win in an open handicap at Warwick Farm on Saturday, is from an immediate family which has much to lord about.
Sequalo Blood Goes Like a Bat Out Of Hell
ONE of the fastest horses and speed influences to stand in Queensland is the Kruger family’s Lyndhurst stud’s now veteran winner Sequalo, contributor to the immediate breeding of each of the first three home in the $100,000 Bat Out of Hell over 900m at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
Aussies Explode Into New Year With Trifectas in NZ
IT IS DOUBTFUL that the Australian breed has ever before got off to such as an explosive start to a new year overseas as it did at Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand on Sunday, day one of 2012. It saw Australian sired horses fill the trifectas in two major events over 1200m, the wfa Group1 Railway Stakes and Group 3 Eclipse Stakes, their first Group event of the racing year for...
Western Jewel’s Potential for Rare Melbourne Cup Double
WESTERN JEWEL’S strong finishing win in the Perth Cup (2400m) at Ascot on December 31 indicated that there is still a chance for her sire to join the small group of Melbourne Cup winners who have gone on to sire a winner of the great staying test.
Zabeel One of the Great Sires Bred by Robert Sangster
FEW breeders in thoroughbred history have made a bigger contribution as a breeder of huge sire forces as the late Robert Sangster, founder of the internationally successful Swettenham stud operation, one whose Australian arm is now making big strides at Nagambie in Victoria in the ownership of his son Adam.
Rain Affair’s Pedigee Shows Raffle of Breeding
MARECHAL, the General Nediym 2-year-old filly who finished fourth in the Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie at Auckland on Sunday, has as her third dam, Habibti, a mare who as a producer failed to live up anywhere near to her awesome sprinting ability, quality breeding and opportunity. A daughter of the influential Habitat and from a grandaughter of Tessa Gillian, a talented sister to...
Australian Sires Have Boxing Day Classic Double in NZ
BOTH the Group 2 races for the current classic generation, the 3-year-olds, held over 1600m at Trentham, Wellington, New Zealand on Boxing Day, were by annexed by progeny of eminent younger sires in Australia with the first of them, the Great Northern Guineas, being taken out by Knight’s Tour, a son of the Zabeel sire Reset (Darley’s Northwood Park, Seymour, Victoria),...
Christmas Day Racing a Nice Present for Swettenham
ADAM SANGTER, the dynamic owner of the Swettenham stud at Nagambie in Victoria, received an extra 2011 Christmas present. It was the feat of Swettenham being the breeder of a winner on Christmas day and it occurred when the Hussonet gelding Good Baby made it five wins from ten outings when he was successful in the Aust$300,000 Magic Millions Classic (3 and 4yos) over 1200m at...
Weekly Scoreboard Showcases Glenlogan Sires
RARE is the week in which race results around Australia fail to mirror the rise of the Jon Haseler established Glenlogan Park at Innisplain near Beaudesert in Queensland into one of the foremost studs as a base for sires of good performers.
Great Villiers Winners Emerged From Obscurity
TWO of the greatest performers to win the Villiers Stakes, a1600m event first run at Randwick in1892 and taken out last Saturday by the Catbird 5-year-old gelding Monton, were a relation of his, Carioca (won in 1952), and the mighty Bernborough (1945). Both were unfashionably bred, started their racing in restricted events in Queensland and did not hit the limelight until they...
Catbird Keeps Up Record of Slipper Winning Sires
CATBIRD, the prematurely deceased Danehill sire represented by a stakes double on Saturday in the shape of Monton (AJC Villiers – 1600m) and Moonlight Bay (Western Australian St Leger – 2100m), is one of the18 of the 21 Golden Slipper winning colts who have had runners to have winners up to Group1 level.
General Nediym and Best Runner Show Up Horse Lottery
BACK at the beginning of 1990, a visionary Brisbane businessman, the now deceased Ron Ashdown, and his wife Helen, established the Glengarry stud on quality tree studded rolling country served by a crystal clear mountain streams in the Fassifern valley out of Ipswich in Queensland.
Peter Pan Magic in Era of Melbourne Cup Glory
IN the five years of the horror world economic disaster era1929-34, a period when nearly a third of the Australian population were unemployed and many others existed on diminished incomes, winners between them of four Melbourne Cups showcased the lottery of thoroughbred breeding. All by England bred sires who raced in that country and Australia, they were New Zealand bred...
Shuttle Sires Big Impact at HK International Meeting
SIRES, who have provided winners to Group1 level from use in both hemispheres, had a big impact on the winners’ stall on the Hong Kong international program on Sunday. The sires are the Coolmore used High Chaparral (by Sadler’s Wells), Fastnet Rock (Australian bred son of Danehill), Spinning World (by Nureyev) and Danehill (Danzig) and a Darley duo of Dubawi (by the...
Catbird’s Brother Has Another Hong Kong Winner
TWO performers bred in Great Britain – Ireland using visiting Australian bred Danehill sires have been winners in Hong Kong. The first of the contestants was Firebolt, one of the foals got by Golden Slipper winner Flying Spur in Ireland on the first of three trips away from the Arrowfield stud, Scone – 1997,1998 and 1999 seasons. A winner of three of eight starts in...
Noted Queensland Mare A Mast For Sea Galleon
SEA GALLEON, the rising Australian stayer who was very impressive in taking out the Christmas Cup (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday, has as a mast in his very strong pedigree one of the best classic racemares produced in Queensland in the past thirty years.The fourth dam of this 5-year-old gelded son of the former Coolmore shuttled Sadler’s Wells English and Irish...
Melbourne Cup Ownership Led to Quarter Century of Joy
BACK in the early 1980s Russ Lazarus, a former owner of Sydney restaurants, including one in the heart of the city that was a popular gathering place for prominent identities, and later developer of a spelling farm for humans at Kurrajong Heights in the Blue Mountains, cracked the racing lottery when he bought a share for a small outlay in a potential stayer.
Hidden Dragon’s $2m Magic Millions Classic Prospect
HIDDEN WARRIOR, a gelding by booming Danehill sire Hidden Dragon (Lyndhurst Stud, Warwick), one represented during the month of November by a spectacular 19 winners of 21 races, confirmed that he is a serious candidate for the $2million BMW Magic Millions 2YO Classic to be run at the Gold Coast on Saturday January 14 when he cruised to an easy front running win in a trial at...
Son of Top European Danehill Sire a Valuable Import
ONE of the most spectacular efforts in a big event in England in recent years has been the eleven lengths win in new 2400m course record time of the Dansili 4-year-old stallion Harbinger in the 2010 edition of the great wfa test, the King George V1 & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. Now at the Shadai Stallion Station in Japan, Harbinger turned in what was written up as...
Manning Valley Ideal for Sea Change for Horse Breeders
BLESSED like his owner – trainer Jim Delaney with an iron constitution, the 4-year-old Floral Dynamite gelding Floral Insight was having his seventeenth start and sixth win since mid May when he came with a powerful burst on the inside to win the 1000m event on Wednesday’s Warwick Farm program. In rolling the $1.65 favourite Skateboard, Floral Insight registered...
Playing God Blessed With a Top Speed Family
PLAYING GOD, the son of the Danehill sire Blackfriars who took the $500,000 Group1 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot, Perth on Saturday for the second successive year, is from a family that consistently throws up fleet footed quality performers. Also winner of the Western Australian Guineas, Aquanita Stakes and Magic Millions Perth 3YO Trophy, runner up in the Western...
Luckygray’s Elevation In Railway Well Deserved
LUCKYGRAY’S elevation by the stewards from second to the winner’s stall after the running of the million dollar Group1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at Perth’s Ascot on Saturday November 19 appeared well deserved. After battling through the wruck from a wide barrier in the16-runner field, the Bradbury’s Luck first crop 4-year-old gelding lived up to his...
Rapid Rise To American Win Sequence Record
WHEN Robert Cole picked up the tough 4-year-old Rapid Redux for US$6,250 out of a claiming race on Penn National Racecourse, Pennsylvania, the American state bordering that of New York, in October 2010 he could not have envisaged just how busy as an owner the gelding was going to keep him over the next twelve months.
Awesome Just For Dash Juvenile’s Smokey Eyes Heritage
SMOKEY EYES, one of the most spectacular sources of winners ever in Australia from use at the Kruger’s Lyndhurst stud at Warwick in Queensland, may never had the opportunity in the north if he had stayed one or two more years in Victoria, the launching pad for his sire career.
Orange District Storm Cat Sire Fires At Perth Meeting
THE impressive run in Western Australia by the modestly used powerfully bred importation Mosayter (Storm Cat – Bashayer, by Mr. Prospector), one transferred from the west last year to Louise Ellis’s expanding Argyle Thoroughbreds stud and agistment farm at Panuara near Orange central western New South Wales, continued on Saturday when two of his 3-year-olds, Roman...
Hidden Dragons Puffing Big Score Of November Wins
RACING results in November have seen Hidden Dragon, a Danehill winner of six races in Hong Kong whose oldest are four, stamp himself as another budding prolific sire of winners at the Kruger’s Lyndhurst stud at Warwick in Queensland, one which in the past has had five lead Australian statistics numerically.
Galileo – Danehill Cross Conquering The World
TRADITIONALLY the flat racing season in Great Britain and Ireland each year concludes in early November, but in recent years it has been extended through the development of all weather tracks that host lower grade meetings, none of which have stakes.
26yo American Sire Has Australian City Double
ONE of America’s oldest currently active sires, the 26-year-old Dynaformer, had a metropolitan double in Australia at the weekend. It was provided by the Chris Waller prepared Dynamic Honour, a 3-year old colt who was successful by 1.8 lengths in an event at 1250m at Canterbury on Friday evening, and the world class stayer Americain, the dominant winner of the $350,000...
Melbourne Juvenile Winner’s Danehill Genes
THERE is no Danehill in the pedigree of Maximus Moonard, the dashing 1.5 lengths winner on debut at Sandown on Saturday of the $100,000 Written Tycoon Champion Sire Stakes (the Merson Cooper Stakes) for juveniles, but the chestnut colt’s pedigree contains much of the genes that produced the dual hemisphere sire giant.
Taits Producing Gems Before Dark Jewel Dynasty
SIR CHARLES LEICESTER, an esteemed authority on breeding in England in the first sixty years of last century, in his historical book Bloodstock Breeding, described a stallion by the name of Willonyx, a winner of the Royal Ascot Gold Cup (4000m), as a very bad sire.
Swettenham’s Acclamation For European Sire’s 2011 Record
DOUBLING, and more, of the size of the books supplied to top rank sires this century has had a big impact on the annual talies of winners credited to leading juvenile sires in Europe.This is shown by perusal of the statistics of the leaders for European racing in 2011 through to early November, the twilight of the year’s juvenile racing.
