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Breeding Briefs
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11/05/2002 |
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ARROWFIELD Stud has achieved an excellent percentage of stakeswinners among this season’s two-year-olds.
So far this season 59 2Y0 stakes races have been run in Australia and New Zealand with youngsters bred, raised or sold by Arrowfield winning seven of those races.
That is an amazing 12 percent of Australasia’s juvenile stakeswinners hailing from one stud, results that are delighting Arrowfield managing director John Messara.
The racetrack is all that matters in breeding and to get results like this is very satisfying,Messara said.
The numbers have grown quickly with recent victories by Flying Spur’s son Blur in the G3 Smoke Free Stakes at Morphettville, Fuji Kiseki’s daughter Fuji Dancer in the Gibson Carmichael Stakes (LR) at Flemington and Danehill filly Cassis in the Cinderella Stakes (LR) at Victoria Park.
Their success has taken the number of Arrowfield stakeswinners in the last five years to 41.
Older Arrowfield products were also to the fore with Fouardee (Forest Glow) winning the Dr John Power Stakes (LR) at Eagle Farm and the Danzero’s top class filly Miss Bussell taking the Gold Coast Guineas.
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SWITCH IN TIME
The record-breaking sire who has stood at Tamworth’s Stratheden Stud since 1987, has been relocated to Queensland’s Westhaven Park Stud.
One of the most successful sires in Australian breeding histoiry, Switch In Time has produced more than 330 individual winners of more than 1400 races and almost $13 million prizmoney.
In 1996-97 he had winners of a mammoth 220 races, the highest number of wins for one season by a NSW sire and a score surpassed by only one other sire in Australian history, Celestial Dancer who had a world record 239 wins in 1995-96.
Stratheden Stud will stand young sire Vitrinite this spring while sending many of its top class broodmare band to leading sires at major studs.
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PROLIFIC sire Yallah Prince has died at the age of twenty at his owner Ken Delforce’s Kendel Park Stud at Willow Tree near Quirindi in north-west NSW.
The son of the Northern Dancer sire Yallah Native has sired more than 500 winners, including notable performers Princely, Babu’s Boy, Pimpala Prince, Yallah Lad and Yallah King.
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COLLINGROVE Stud
sires Rory’s Jester, Scenic and Marju came to the fore on the international stage last weekend.
Rory’s Jester boosted his ranking among international sires when his brilliant three-year-old North Boy smashed the 1200m track record to beat world class racehorse and Group winner Caller One by three lengths in the KrisFlyer Sprint at Kranji .
In Hong Kong the Rory’s Jester two-year-old Wyndham Easy, his two-year-old full brother to Magic Millions winner Catnipped,
finished third to move to the top of prizemoney list for graduates sold at last December’s prestigious Hong Kong sale.
He is now the leading candidate to win the $HK1 million dollar bonus for the highest prizemoney earning sale graduate.
Scenic attracted attention due to his winning son Steal A Scene, now racing in Singapore on a permanent basis. Steal A Scene won a handicap race at Kranji on International night.
Marju’s evergreen nine-year-old Indigenous soldiered home to run third in the G1 Singapore International Cup, on the back of his third place run in Hong Kong’s G1 QE II Cup.
In England, Marju’s three-year-old daughter Marika was third in the Listed Chartwell Fillies Stakes at Lingfield.
Marju has now produced 116 international stakes performers.
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THE high demand for progeny by boom sire Carnegie was again evident when a filly by the son of Sadler’s Wells brought the top price of $NZ90,000 at the New Zealand’s National Weanling Sale at Karaka that ended on May 13.
Sold through the draft of Haunui Farm, the filly is from the good mare Solo Performance, winner of the G3 Merson Cooper Stakes and second in the G1 VATC Blue Diamond Stakes and is a half sister Solo Show, winner of the G2 Quick Eze Stakes at Caulfield.
She was purchased by New Zealand Bloodstock as agent for an Australian client.
At the conclusion of the weanling session, a total of 266 lots had changed hands for an aggregate of $NZ2,033,250 at an average of $NZ7644, almost $NZ2000 below last year’s result.
The leading buyer was Art – Mullar Enterprises of Hong Kong, purchasing 10 lots for a total of $NZ247,000.
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GRAEME Rogerson has been selected to train the Zabeel-Marquise colt who was the top-priced lot at this year's NZ National Yearling Sale at Karaka.
The colt was sold for $NZ1,050,000 from the Cambridge Stud draft on behalf of Matthew Oram and Malcolm Glenn.
He was purchased by Dr Shalabh Sahu as agent for His Excellency Nasser Lootah and ended a chase by his Emirates Park stud farm in NSW to buy into the great Eight Carat family.
Dr Sahu had been under-bidder on the $NZ3.6 million Zabeel-Diamond Lover colt two years ago who last month won the AJC Derby at Randwick as Don Eduardo.
Before that he had been underbidder on the $NZ1.6 million Zabeel-Eight Carat colt who was named Colombia.
The Zabeel-Maqruise colt, the most expensive horse Rogerson has ever trained. has been broken in and has already spent a short time at his Randwick stable in Sydney.
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HONG Kong-based barrister Gary Plowman has enjoyed instant Group One success as a horse breeder.
Plowman, a New Zealander who has lived in Hong Kong for the past 23 years, bred the G1 Australasian Oaks winner Tully Thunder.
The Thunder Gulch filly is from Fleur De Chine, a well-performed daughter of Centaine, who was purchased as a yearling by top Kiwi trainer Dave O’Sullivan on behalf of Plowman.
Fleur De Chine raced in Plowman’s colours and among her three wins was a G2 victory in the Lion Red Classic at Taranaki.
She also won the a Listed Race and was runner-up in the G2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes.
Tully Thunder is her first foal and was sold as a yearling for $350,000 from the Windsor Park Stud draft at the Karaka Sales.
Fleur De Chine has a two-year-old full sister to Tully Thunder in the stables of Paul O’Sullivan while her yearling filly was sold at Karaka this year for $NZ112,500 to Victorian interests.
She has a Zabeel weanling and is currently in foal to Montjeu.
Fleur De Chine’s dam, Sellou, has also produced Sneetch, a G3 winner and dam of recent stakes winner Gussy Godiva.
Plowman has half-a-dozen broodmares residing at Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand and these also include the Gr I placegetter Tristachine, who is in foal to Montjeu.
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A record catalogue of 325 mares will be offered at New Zealand’s National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka from May 12 to 14.
Over the past three years mares sold at this sale have recorded a 45 percent growth in average price. Top priced broodmare at last year’s sale was the G1 winner Clear Rose (by Deputy Governor), who was sold in foal to Carnegie for $NZ300,000.
Adding a further dimension to the sale will be the unreserved dispersal of stock from Grangewilliam Stud, the majority of the 70 lots being weanlings and mares.
Grangewilliam, nursery of such top class winners as Happyanunoit, Doriemus, Drum, Apollo Run and Kilmore Quay, will continue to operate with a focus on further developing the stud career of resident sire Al Akbar,
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THE 2002 Singapore Ready to Run Sale, conducted by New Zealand Bloodstock has felt the effects of a depressed local economy.
The sale of three lots passed in on sale day has lifted the aggregate to $S875,500 from a total of 16 lots sold compared to last year’s sale of 19 lots for $S1,245 million.
The average currently sits at $S54,718 compared with $S65,450 at last year’s sale.
A number of the leading trainers and several major owners commented that the Singapore economy is currently very tight which translates into depressed demand for racehorses.
The top price of the sale was $S100,000, paid by trainer Paddy Busuttin for a Straight Strike gelding from the Sovereign Edition mare Minted. He is a half brother to multiple Group winner in New Zealand, Amore Mia.
Top price of last year’s sale was $S115,000.
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