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Breeding Briefs
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03/06/2002 |
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Bahhare; Inflate; Desert Style; Japan Select Sale; Bluebird, Joe Walls; Our Emblem.
* NSW-based import Inflate and Irish shuttle stallion Bahhare have been represented by their first winners.
Bahhare, a Woodman half brother to Bahri who has been standing in NZ for the last three seasons, was represented by his first winner when Katdogawn scored at Bath in England by five lengths on May 31.
Bahhare first NZ-bred progeny begin racing next season but he will not be returning as he is having a year off from shuttle duties.
Inflate, a son of Forty Niner, had his first winner from only five runners when Inflation won at Canberra on May 31.
* JESSICA'S Dream, a daughter of Yarraman Park Stud’s former shuttle sire Desert Style, won the G3 Ballyogan Stakes at Cork on June 2.
The win was a notable victoiry for her English trainer James Given as sdhe was his first runner in Ireland.
Given is aiming Jessica`s Dream at the King`s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.
* THE 2002 Japan Racing Horse Association's Select Sale will feature 30 foals by Sunday Silence.
The sale will be held on July 8 and 9 at Hokkaido’s Northern Horse Park. A total of 296 foals have been cataloged, with representatives by top shuttle sires End Sweep and Spectrum among the select list.
There are also progeny from the first crops by Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, six-time G1 winner Giant's Causeway and 1999 Japanese Horse of the Year El Condor Pasa.
* KING Midas, a six-year-old English-bred son of popular shuttle sire Bluebird, topped the annual sale Emirates Racing Association’s Horses in Training sale at Nad al Sheba racecourse in Dubai.
King Midas, who has won three of his 28 starts, brought a bid of $US40,844.
A pair of European G1 winners also were sold. Night Style, who won the 1999 Gran Criterium at Milan, went to a buyer from Kuwait for $US8169 and Mantovani, the winner of the 1996 Phoenix Stakes in Ireland, sold for $US7352.
* THE board of New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing has appointed Joe Walls as the new chairman of the company.
Walls has been involved in the industry for more than 30 years, during which time he has been Managing Director of Wrightson Bloodstock and then New Zealand Bloodstock.
In recent times he has acted as an auctioneer and agent for New Zealand Bloodstock on a consultancy basis.
Walls will take on the management responsibilities and activities that were left vacant upon the departure of Mark Player as chief executive officer.
*OUR Emblem, sire of current US superstar War Emblem, has been purchased by a partnership of leading Kentucky studs Taylor Made Farm and WinStar Farm.
The 11-year-old son of Mr. Prospector from the undefeated champion mare Personal Ensign is currently completing his 2002 season at Murmur Farm in Maryland. He will stand at Taylor Made Farm in 2003.
The purchase price was reported to be more than $US10 million.
It is the second time Taylor Made and WinStar have combined to make a notable purchase, last year teaming in securing a substantial interest in dual Horse of the Year Tiznow. Tiznow is now standing at WinStar Farm.
Murmur Farm purchased Our Emblem for a reported $200,000 last year after he had stood for five season at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky.
Due to the deeds of War Emblem, Our Emblem is now on top of the US general sire list with only three crops of racing age.
He has sired five stakes winners and one stakes-placed runner among 35 individual winners from 65 starters.
Our Emblem’s other stakes winners include Private Emblem, winner of the G2 Arkansas Derby.
Our Emblem is a full brother to G1 winners Miner’s Mark and Traditionally and a half brother to G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner My Flag. He won five of 27 career starts and was placed in three G1 events.
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