Archive for
August, 2009
Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Racing and Breeding |
Termagant, winner of the
Group One Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh, Ireland, has
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Posted by
Alan Porter | Filed under
Alan Porter - Pedigree Insights, Feature Pedigree, Lonhro, Premium Updates |
Surprising as it may seem, very early in his stud career, there was a question mark
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Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding, Sir Percy |
Mark Of Esteem, whose best son
Sir Percy is standing at
Rich Hill Stud in New Zealand
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Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Feature Stallion, Mutawaajid, Premium Updates |
STALLIONS continue our series on horses retiring to stud this spring and amongst them is
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Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Exceed And Excel, Premium Updates, Shamardal |
Irish-trained
Arctic has claimed another ice-cool victory, this time in the
G3 Go And Go
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Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Racing and Breeding |
As it was in Australia, the weekend’s racing in
New Zealand, was high lighted with the first
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Posted by
Warren Wruck | Filed under
Northern Meteor, Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding, Sebring |
Each year, in the days leading into the breeding season,
Widden Stud holds a number of
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Posted by
Graeme Kelly | Filed under
Mount Nelson, Premium Updates, Quick Questions |
Considering the difficult economic climate
Baerami Thoroughbreds has scored quite a
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Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Choisir, Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding |
Starspangledbanner made it three wins on the trot when he showed a ton of courage to
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Posted by
Kristen Manning | Filed under
Desert King, Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding |
He’s back in Victoria! Outstanding stallion
Desert King arrived at Bombora Downs Stud
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Posted by
David Bay | Filed under
Aussie Rules, Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding |
Although he’s the cheapest horse on the roster at
Coolmore with an advertised fee of just
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Posted by
David Bay | Filed under
Racing and Breeding |
With eight winners so far this month, including three-year-old Power Princess who won by
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Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Commands, Lonhro, Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding |
A very proud Trevor Lobb led Denman back to scale after his fabulous victory in the
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admin | Filed under
Press Releases, Site Announcements |
Dear breeder, we are conducting a brief online survey
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Posted by
David Bay | Filed under
Premium Updates, Purrealist, Racing and Breeding, Tale of the Cat |
TALE of the Cat’s latest star
Trusting (ex Legible (NZ) by
Zabeel (NZ)), who trounced a
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Posted by
David Bay | Filed under
Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding, Shamardal |
SHAMARDAL (USA), who made such a great start to his southern stud career with 12 first crop winners in 2008-09, is doing equally well in Europe with 10 juvenile winners led by recent Group winner Shakespearean. The colt collected the Solario Stakes-Gr.3 (1400m) at Sandown Park on August 22 for trainer Mark Johnson, who also trained Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway (USA)-Helsinki by Machiavellian) at two when he won the first of his four Gr.1 events, the Dewhurst Stakes and also the Vintage Stakes-Gr.2.
Trained for Godolphin by Saeed bin Suroor at three, Shamardal won the French Derby (2100m), French 2000 Guineas (1600m) and the St James’s Palace Stakes (1600m) at the elite level and retired as the winner of six of his seven starts. He was rated World Champion 2YO in 2004 and European Champion 3YO Miler the following season. Shamardal stands at Darley’s Kelvinside at Aberdeen in the Hunter Valley on $27,500 and his stakes-placed dam is a sister to Dubai World Cup-Gr.1 winner and leading sire Street Cry (IRE), their dam being the Irish Oaks-Gr.1 winner Helen Street, by the Petingo classic winner Troy. Inbred 5fx4f to Halo (and with a further cross of his sire Hail to Reason in his five generation pedigree via Roberto), Shamardal is also 5mx5f to Natalma. Danehill carries a 3mx3f cross to this mare whose half-sister Cosmah is the dam of Halo.
Shamardal’s leading southern runners include the stakes placed duo Marquardt (dam by Centaine) and Premardal (dam by Rainbow Quest) while his northern stakes winners are Arctic (dam by Shareef Dancer), unbeaten in two starts at 1000m including the Listed Curragh Stakes and Shakespearean (dam by Priolo). Shamardal’s sire, the former Coolmore shuttler Giant’s Causeway (Storm Cat-Mariah’s Storm by Rahy), won six Gr.1 events including the Eclipse Stakes, St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix de la Salamandre and left the southern Gr.1 winners Juste Momente and Our Giant (in South Africa), while his northern Gr.1 winners include former shuttler and English 2000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand (USA), Aragorn, My Typhoon and First Samurai.
Posted by
David Bay | Filed under
Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding, Savoire Vivre |
A BOLD front-running display by Pass Me By (
pedigree), who scored his second Melbourne
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Posted by
Andrew Reichard | Filed under
Don Eduardo, Premium Updates, Racing and Breeding, Staff Favourites |
In these days of fast money and short term decisions, when commercial success in the (more…)
Posted by
admin | Filed under
Racing and Breeding |
Russeting another gem from Schillaci’s family
THE victory of the Commands mare Russeting in the Winter Stakes-Gr.1 at the recent Tattersalls (Qld) Club carnival in Brisbane, indicated the female line that has sprouted such luminaries as Schillaci and Forina is still producing good winners four generations on from Tobalina, the mare who could be described as the foundation of the family in Australia. The success of Tobalina’s family has been in spite of a number of her descendents being less than prolific breeders, including Tobalina herself. In 13 years at stud Tobalina produced only seven foals, one unnamed. Of the other six, four were fillies, but one never produced a live foal. TOBALINA PEDIGREE (more…)
Posted by
Michele Cullen | Filed under
Racing and Breeding |
With vision for the future, David Hayes has announced, that he will sell part of his famous
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