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Breeding Figures Take
Centre Stage At Asian Conference
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01/03/2003 |
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Australian
breeding and racing industry figures will play a lead role at the 29th Asian
Racing Conference in Auckland from March 2-6.
Breeders at all levels will take particular interest in the topics to be covered
during the Breeding Business session of the conference with a particular
emphasis on the impact and worth of shuttle stallions.
The chairman for the Breeding Session will be the Hon Michael Duffy, formerly
Australia's Attorney General and currently Deputy Chairman of Racing Victoria
The opening guest speaker will be John Digby, the respected Keeper of the
Australian Stud Book.
Digby will present a factual overview of the impact of dual hemisphere stallions
on the Australian breeding industry, and outline the consideration Stud Books
are giving to limiting stallions books.
New Zealand's Professor Twink Allen, a world leader in reproductive technology,
will outline the genetical implications of the use of shuttle stallions and the
influence that technology can have on the numbers of mares bred to a stallion.
An interesting debate should evolve from addresses by Coolmore Stud
representative James Bester and leading New Zealand studmaster Gary Chittick.
Bester will discourse on the benefits of shuttle stallions while Chittick will
argue the strengths of domestically-bred stallions.
Tony Hartnell, chairman of Racing NSW and a successful stud owner, will
introduce the often discussed but rarely detailed impact dual hemisphere
stallions have had on domestic racing.
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