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Veteran
Stallion Switch In Time Put Down
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15/01/2003 |
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Bob
Logan of Logan’s Livestock Insurance announced this afternoon (Wednesday) that
Switch In Time, the sire revered as the king of north-western NSW breeding, had
been put down in the morning at his new home near Toowoomba after a prolonged
bout of pneumonia.
Protected by a Logan’s insurance policy, Switch In Time had been acquired from
the Marheines of Stratheden Stud, Tamworth twelve months earlier following
fertility problems reports Brian Russell. Imported to NSW by prominent breeder
Fred Pesiah, this1983 Ireland bred American sprinter had spent all his stud
career through to the end of 2001 at Stratheden, initially with John and Kay
Park and then with the Marheines.
To date he has been represented by 349 winners of 1660 races and $14.4million.
In the process he has been overall the most successful sire numerically for NSW
for the past seven years. He has had winners of over 100 races and $1million in
each of those years and in1996-97 supplied winners of 220 races, a record for a
NSW sire and a feat surpassed possibly by only one other sire in world racing
history, Queensland’s Celestial Dancer.
Like Switch In Time a representative of America’s celebrated Native Dancer
male line, Celestial Dancer had a world record 239 progeny wins in1995-96 and
234 the following year.
There have been few tougher or sounder racehorses around in recent years than
the stock of Switch In Time. He has had a least 50 metropolitan winners and a
spectacular 39 who have each won ten or more races. One of these, the Tamworth
trained Steelswitch, won 34 times and others have included Supertime Park (19
wins), Single Switch (18), County Switch, Minstinquett and Plenty To Go (16 wins
each).
Many of Switch In Time’s best progeny, including Group 1 SAJC Goodwood
Handicap winner Sword (12 wins all told), were sold through the Tamworth
yearling sales
By: Mark Smith
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