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Brian Russells
Breeding Review
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26/08/2002 |
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The
breeding of brilliant filly Innovation Girl is a tribute to the late John
Ingleton, a pioneer of the use of Northern Dancer sires in Australia.
Winner of six of her seven starts, Innovation Girl is by top
Victorian sire Rubiton from Bright Gleam, a mare bred on a cross of two Northern
Dancer sires imported to Australia by Ingleton’s Glen Appin Stud in Jugah and
Voodoo Rhythm.
Bright Gleam was a stakes placed performer in Adelaide and is a three-quarter
sister to the Ingleton-bred Jugah G1 Doncaster Handicap winner Soho Square.
Innovation Girl isf Bright Gleam first foal and the third stakeswinner in recent
months from a daughter of Jugah, the others being Crete and Magic Bird.
Jugah, now standing at Victoria’s Eldon Park Stud, is developing into a major
force as a broodmare sire.
Voodoo Rhythm, a veteran sire still in action at Yallambee Stud in Victoria, had
dams of 56 winners and over $800,000 prizemoney in 2001-02. To date his
daughters have produced at least 15 stakeswinners or placegetters.
STRATHEDEN Stud’s Brian Marheine can take the credit for outstanding
colt Snowland.
Marheine may have done the Australian breeding industry a big favour when he
selected Snowdrift, the dam of Snowland, among mares he secured in Europe
in1998.
Snowland was bred at Marheine’s Stratheden Stud at Tamworth and sold to Gooree
Stud for $90,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling sale.
Like his sire Snippets, a Magic Millions winner, Snowland is a tough, sound
early maturer with stud potential.
Although his maternal grandsire Polish Precedent was a top Danzig miler and has
been a middle distance sire, Snowland is expected to be at his best as a
sprinter.
This is boosted by his grandam Snowtop being a half-sister by champion European
sprinter Thatching to Al Hareb, the sire of the outstanbding record-breaking
speedster Hareeba.
Snowland is related to English Derby second and European sire Relkino and hails
from the same family as champion Australasian sire Alcimedes.
The bottom line of his pedigree goes back to a half sister to the grandam of two
of the world’s leading sire influences of last century in Fairway and Pharos,
the latter being the sire of Nearco and grandsire of Northern Dancer.
DANEHILL'S close relation Youthful Legs is fast developing a reputation
of his own.
The young import was responsible for another impressive winner in Adelaide on
August 24 in the shape of Get Up, who won over1806m at Cheltenham Park by eight
lengths.
It was the fourth win from six starts by Get Up, a member of Youthful Legs’
second crop from a mare by Always Welcome.
Youthful Legs is an American stakeswinner by a son of Northern Dancer’s sire
Nearctic from a half-sister to the dam of Danehlll,
He is standing at Erin Park Stud near Tamworth.
By
Brian Russell
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