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55.
Fourth N.Z Horse Of
The Year Title To Sunline
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16/08/2002 |
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The
great racemare Sunline was awarded her fourth consecutive New Zealand Horse Of
The Year title to add to her recently awarded third consecutive Australian Horse
Of The Year title.
SUNLINE
During the season Sunline finished 2nd in the Manikato S. (G1), 1st Memsie S.
(G2), 2nd John F. Feehan S. (G2), 1st Turnbull S. (G2), 2nd W.S. Cox P. (G1),
1st Waikato Draught Sprint (G1), 1st Coolmore Classic (G1), 1st Doncaster H.
(G1), 1st All Aged S. (G1).
The highest earning female of all time, Sunline has started 44 times for 31 wins
8 seconds and 2 thirds for earnings of $AUS11,358,430 in Australia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong, and UAE.
Sunline’s dam Songline also earned the 2002 N.Z. Champion Broodmare Of The
Year title
Bred by the husband and wife team of Michael Martin and Susan Archer, Sunline is
a daughter of the stakes-placed Green Desert stallion Desert Sun, now a member
of the Eliza Park stallion roster. She is the first named foal out of the
Western Symphony mare Songline a winner of five races and stakes-placed three
times.
Songline was purchased from Martin and Archer by Dr. John Woolridge's Inverness
Stud, New South Wales in 1996 for $NZ34,000 before the emergence of Sunline.
Inverness has sold a 1997 filly by Simonstad (named Sunny Song) for $100,000 at
the Classic Sale, a 1999 colt by Octagonal (named Octasong) sold for $520,000 to
John Hawkes at the 2001 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
Songline’s yearling filly by Danehill was passed in at the 2002 Magic Millions
January Yearling Sale when she failed to make her $1 million reserve. After
missing to Peintre Celebre in 2000 Songline was one again served by Desert Sun
to produce a full sibling to Sunline this year. Songline will be one of an elite
group of mares to visit Sadler’s Wells Epsom Derby winning son Galileo at
Coolmore Stud this spring.
The 2002 N.Z Breeder of the Year award went to Pencarrow Stud's Peter &
Philip Vela. Stakes winners produced by Pencarrow Stud during the season
included the champion stayer Ethereal, N.Z. Oaks (G1) winner Vapour Trail and
champion South African mare Hoeberg, which is currently in training at Randwick.
By: Mark Smith
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