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Hunter bred Lonhro the new racing superstar
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Racing & Breeding News
Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service
Phone (02) 6543 3051, Fax (02) 6541 1022
The message at Rosehill on Saturday was that it was timely for Sunline to move aside and make way for a new Australian racing hero, the first crop Octagonal galloper Lonhro. It came through a dominating 3 3/4 lengths victory in the $101,000 Missile Stakes over 1100 metres.
Making his first appearance since mid February, Lonhro was recording his eighth win in succession and pushing his earnings to just on $1.5million, a sum he is confidently expected to double in the spring, a campaign that is planned to include a tilt at the Cox Plate.
Bred and raced by Jack and Bob Ingham through their Woodlands Stud empire, one with major breeding farms near Denman in the Hunter Valley and Cootamundra in central western NSW, Lonhro was also in the news earlier last week, being named the champion 3yo for 2001-02.
Close on his heels for that distinction was another Ingham bred and raced performer in Viscount. He had followed up being accoladed champion at two with some top performances last season including a win in the George Main Stakes at Randwick and a third in the Cox Plate.
Now starting his stud career at Woodlands,Viscount is by another of their sires, the English Derby winner Quest for Fame, a son of one of the best Blushing Groom sires, Rainbow Quest, also sire of the Yarraman Park Stud visitor Spectrum. Quest for Fame and Spectrum appeal as two of the best sires available to Australian breeders as they can get horses for all distances and blend with the more speedy bred mares.
The Inghams input into racing and breeding was very much to the fore last week not only through the achievements of Lonhro, but the close of the racing year saw two of their sires, Strategic and Canny Lad, the two leading Australian bred sires. Also four Woodlands sires, Grand Lodge, Strategic, Canny Lad and Octagonal, each finished the year with earnings of over $2.5million and were in the top twenty on the sires' list.
Racing & Breeding News
Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service
Phone (02) 6543 3051, Fax (02) 6541 1022
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