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Flying bullets stir retail tycoon
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11/07/2002 |
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Racing
& Breeding News
Brian
Russell Bloodstock Media Service
Phone
(02) 654 3051, Fax (02) 6541 1022, July 8, 02
Harvey Norman chief Gerry Harvey is stirred by flying bullets, those of an equine variety which in the future will gallop out of the paddocks of his historic Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley. It is an enthusiasm which was boosted further by the powerhouse win of Bulletproof Billy in the $70,000 Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
Recording his sixth win in twelve starts, the Pat Farrell, Muswellbrook, trained three-year-old gelding is one of 17 metropolitan winners which in the past twelve months have represented the source of the Bullets, the imported Bite the Bullet.
Twelve of the others have also been successful on Sydney racecourses. In addition he has had winners in the past year at Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Wyong, Gosford, Hawkesbury, Newcastle, Kembla Grange, Canberra, Cessnock, the Gold Coast, Ipswich and Toowoomba, to mention prominent venues.
On Saturday he had a metropolitan double comprised by Bulletproof Billy at Rosehill and Powder Burn at Flemington. Also a three-year-old, Powder Burn was racing for the sixth time in eight weeks. A $7000 Scone yearling sale graduate, he had won at Randwick two starts back and then been third on the same course.
All these horses were sired when Bite the Bullet stood at the Philippine owned King Maker Farm near Scone. When this operation was wound down in 2000, Gerry Harvey took the opportunity to grab the sire for his newly acquired Baramul Stud.
Bite the Bullet's stock in general have been tough, sound performers, much the same as the progeny his deceased three-quarter brother Spectacular Spy has supplied in recent years.They were both sired in America by one of their greatest racehorses of all time, Spectacular Bid. He has been represented by winners of over 1300 races including 44 successful in stakes races.
On a fee of $6050, Bite the Bullet is sharing the Baramul stallion complex with newcomer Reenact, a Marscay Group One winning two-year-old and AJC Derby fourth who is looking at an initial book in excess of eighty mares. Mr Harvey, owner himself of some180 mares, will be supporting both solidly.
The success of Bulletproof Billy, a horse Pat Farrell picked up at a William Inglis & Son Sydney Classic sale for $8000, meant that the long time Muswellbrook trainer had been represented by two stakes winners in sixteen days. He won the Pacesetter Stakes, a race in which Bulletproof Billy was third in, at Gosford on June 20.
Racing
& Breeding News
Brian
Russell Bloodstock Media Service
Phone
(02) 654 3051, Fax (02) 6541 1022, July 8, 02
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