Date posted December 30, 2009 | Posted by Brian Russell | Filed under
Racing and BreedingMuswellbrook, NSW (December 30th, 2009) - WHEN the John Wallace, Gold Coast trained I’d Do Anything scored a narrow win over the Bradbury’s Luck filly Bokissa on the home track on Saturday, it gave his sire, the Danehill Golden Slipper second Shovhog, the spectacular strike rate for the current racing year of four juvenile winners from only five runners.
Among those that have preceded I’d Do Anything in the 2009-10 juvenile division have been Adebisi (at only start won easily at Eagle Farm), Raise Up (won Doomben, a close third of eleven Eagle Farm) and Rocket On By (on debut won by 6-1/2 lengths at Mackay). Also earning prize money has been the fifth runner, Dark Secrets, a fourth placegetter at Toowoomba on December 23.
Shovhog’s most recent winner, I’d Do Anything, was following up a debut sixth in a Listed stakes at Eagle Farm on December 12 when successful at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Sold at the Gold Coast yearling sales for $34,000, he is another winner bred by Ramsey Pastoral Company, owners of the Turangga stud at Scone, one represented by a major draft at the Magic Millions yearling sale commencing January 6.
I’d Do Anything is a good advertisement for Queensland breeding, his sire Shovhog being at one of the State’s most respected studs, the Basil Nolan’s Raheen at Gladfield near Warwick, and the first three dams all being bred in the Darling Downs region.
He is from Sheer Devotion, a Celestial Dancer Brisbane Listed stakes winning 2-year-old out of the Captain Piper mare No Sacrifice. She included in eight sprint wins an appearance in a Class 6 at Eagle Farm.
Four of the five Shovhog 2-year-olds seen out so far were purchased out of the Magic Millions yearling sales at the Gold Coast. Besides I’d Do Anything, the others are Rocket on By ($20,000), Adebisi ($15,000) and Dark Secrets ($32,000).
They were bred and marketed by Raheen, the contributor of the four lots by Shovhog in next month’s sale. All in the sixth session, January 14, they include a colt out of Bligh Bounty, dam of a winner in each of Perth and Hong Kong and a half-sister to the Raheen bred Brisbane iron horse Hard to Catch, a winner of 13 races and earner of $1,157,600 to date.
A son of another Raheen sire, Dodge, Hard to Catch has been another Gold Coast yearling bargain, selling to trainer Pat Duff for $25,000.
The source in the past two years of good winners in not only Australia, but also Hong Kong and Malaysia, Raheen each year is one of Queensland’s biggest marketers at the Gold Coast. For the 2010 January sale, they have 31 listed, including the four by Shovhog, six by their promising Redoute’s Choice sire Stromberg Carlson and others by fashionable outside sires including Commands, General Nediym,Testa Rossa, Canny Lad, Snippetson, Show a Heart, Bradbury’s Luck, Falvelon, Jet Spur and Strada.
