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7.
Sunline
Booked To Storm Cat
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02/12/2002 |
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Champion
mare Sunline is booked to be served by the world’s most expensive stallion
Storm Cat in America in January.
Sunline’s major part-owner and trainer Trevor McKee has confirmed an
application to have the mare served by Storm Cat had been accepted by
Kentucky’s Overbrook Farm, where he stands for an advertised service fee of
$US500,000.
McKee has said it is not definite that Sunline will fill the booking as several
other northern hemisphere stallion options remained under consideration.
However the Storm Cat booking indicates that McKee and his partners are
proceeding to finalise their breeding plans for Sunline due to the delay in her
proposed sale to northern hemisphere interests.
McKee said no sale arrangements have been finalised although negotiations are
still in the hands of bloodstock agents.
It had been reported that McKee and his partners had received seven expressions
of interest from parties interested in buying Sunline outright or entering into
a partnership with the existing syndicate.
However it is now believed only two parties from the US and England are showing
firm interest.
Storm Cat, at stud in Kentucky since 1988, has been the leading sire in the US
for the last two years with more than 60 stakeswinners to his credit among
almost 400 individual winners.
His progeny have won almost $US70 million and include Giant’s Causeway, Cat
Thief, Sharp Cat, Catrail, Tabasco Cat, High Yield, Hennessy and Black
Minnaloushe.
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