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Breeding Briefs
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11/04/2002 |
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Proud Knight; NZ Weanling and Broodmare Sale; Seto Flowerian; Anglia; Woodlands Stud Fees; Easter Thoroughbred Sale; Val Royal; Distilled; Victorian Weanling Sale; Greek Dance.
*VETERAN sire Proud Knight has been retired from stud duty at the age of 23.
The son of Vain produced more than 200 indvidual winners of 700 races and $5.2 million prizemoney.
The brilliant stakes winner started his stud career in 1982 at Holbrook Stud in the Widden Valley, run by the Harris family.
When Holbrook was sold four years ago, Proud Knight was transferred to the family’s new breeding and agistment farm near Scone run by Julie Harris.
She reared and prepared for sale the Zoffany mare Miss Zoe, winner of last Saturday’s G2 Emancipation Stakes at Randwick.
* MORE than 800 lots have been catalogued for New Zealand’s National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale in May.
The three-day sale on May 12, 13, and 14 included some 70 lots as part of an unreserved dispersal of stock from Grangewilliam Stud.
Grangewilliam Stud, which has produced such top horses as Happyanunoit, Doriemus, Drum, Apollo Run and Kilmore Quay, will continue to operate with a focus on developing the career of resident sire Al Akbar.
The weanling session will see 380 lots including the first crop offerings of some interesting and exciting new sires. including foals by American Odyssey, Cape Cross, Colombia, Dream Well, Germano, Istidaad, Marju’s first southern crop, Pins, Seven Figures, Stravinsky and Zerpour.
The 350 broodmares reprsent many6 proven successful broodmare sires including Balmerino, Bletchingly, Caerleon, Centaine, Crested Wave, Dahar, Diesis, Kaapstad, Last Tycoon, Marscay, Nassipour, Pompeii Court, Quest For Fame, Seattle Slew, Sir Tristram, Sound Reason, Star Way, Twig Moss, Vain, Vice Regal, Zabeel and Zamazaan covered by a huge cross section of leading local and overseas stallions.
There are 50 lots in the yearling session
* TIGER Café, a Sunday Silence colt from the Australian Group winner Seto Flowerian, has finished second in Japan’s G1 2000 Guineas at Nakayama.
Bred by Shadai Farm, Tiger Café finished second to the Brian’s Time colt No Reason, ridden by visiting English jockey Brett Doyle. The winner ran the 2000m on turf in a blistering 1.58.5 seconds.
Tanomi Gimlet, another Brian’s Time colt, finished third in the 2000m three-year-old classic that offered more than 233 million yen in prizemoney.
Seto Flowerian, by Bellotto from Yeatsina, was trained in Sydney by Paul Cave for a syndicate that included several Japanese owners who setn to stud in their homeland at the end of her racing career.
She won five of her 38 starts including the G3 Adrian Knox Stakes at Randwick.
* ANGLIA, an unraced three-quarter brother to Dr Grace, will be the first son of champion Octagonal to go to stud in Australia.
Anglia, from the G1 winner English Wonder, was bred in 1998 and had been in training under John Hawkes at Crown Lodge but will be retired without racing due to a leg injury.
He will not join Octagonal at Woodlands Stud but will go to Queensland to stand at Raheen Stud, a nursery that has had a long and successful run with stallions raced by Jack and Bob Ingham.
Raheen has has previously stood Crown Jester, Sanction, Dodge and Clang.
* ON the subject of Octagonal, his service fee for 2002 has risen from $40,000 to $55,000 (including GST).
Other fees set for Woodlands stallions next spring (inc. GST) are Grand Lodge (38,500); Quest For Fame ($33,000); Canny Lad ($27,000); Desert Prince ($27,500), Strategic ($27,500); Viscount ($27,500); Commands ($13,750); Over ($9900) and Dracula ($8250).
* THE 2002 Easter Thoroughbred Sale at Newmarket on April saw 101 mixed lots selling for a gross of $634,600 at an average price of $6,283.
Red Star Thoroughbreds paid $40,000 to secure Regal Prospect, the highest priced lot in the broodmare section. She is a stakes-placed half-sister to stakes performers Regal Strike, Regency and King's Ransom, and comes with the added incentive of a positive test to Danehill Dancer .
Horses from the Kingmaker Park Dispersal sold well, with Lookalike, an unraced colt by Irgun, fetching top price of $40,000 to the bid of William Inglis and Son as agent. Last start winner
Impregnable, a stakes-winner of more than $150,000, was knocked down to trainer Steve Englebrecht for $30,000.
* VAL Royal and Distilled, among the best US performers produced by shuttle sires Royal Academy and Hennessy, have been retired due to injury.
Val Royal, who won the 2001 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Belmont Park, has had his career terminated by a tendon injury and is now destined for a stud career.
The problem surfaced after six-year-old Val Royal finished fifth in the Dubai Duty Free at Nad al Sheba on March 23 when trainer Julio Canani discovered a new lesion on top of an old one.
The French-bred son of Vadlava, by Bikala, won seven of only 12 career starts for $US1,186,687 in earnings. He began racing in France where he won the H2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano, G3 Prix de Guiche and Prix Matchem before he was acquired by US interests.
Val Royal won the G2 Del Mar Derby at his first Us start and also the G2 Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes at Santa Anita Park prior to his Breeders’ Cup victory.
Hennessy four-year-old Distilled, last year’s winner of the G2 Illinois Derby, has been retired after suffering a suspensory injury in a training gallop.
Distilled missed the final seven months of his three-year-old season last year after tearing the suspensory ligament in his near foreleg.
He made his return to racing only last month with a third at Gulfstream Park.
Distilled is owned by Dogwood Stables, who have indicated a possible stud career in Australia will be considered for the young stallion.
"We will now be discussing stallion plans for the horse in both the northern and southern Hemispheres," said Dogwood president Cot Campbell.
The Kentucky-bred Distilled won three of his 12 career starts and earned $378,410.
* THE Independent Stallion Station at Toolern Vale is the venue for third Magic Millions Victorian Weanling Sale on Friday April 26.
There are 67 lots in the catalogue by leading sires including Danehill Dancer, Rubiton Desert Sun, Brief Truce, Umatilla, Jugah, Northern Drake and Johan Cruyff.
Notable lots that should attrcat the attention of pinhookers include a half-brother to Western Outlaw, a half sister to Miamore and a half-brother to Tapalinga and progeny from a numb er of stakes performers including Asian Royale, Rest Assure, Karpat, Iceni Lady, Langtry's Image and Yulan.
* European G1 winner Greek Dance has been retired from breeding at the Gestut Gorlsdorf stud farm in Germany due to fertility problems.
The seven-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells had been booked to more than 60 mares for the current breeding season.
Greek Dance won four of 17 career starts inclujding the G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis and placed in five other G1 events, including the Juddmonte International, Prix Ganay, Hong Kong Cup and Irish Champion Stakes.
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