Trade Fair, who stood for the past four years at Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire, has been sold and will remain in Australia, where he has been shuttling for the southern hemisphere season and his first crop have made a big impression.
The son of Zafonic is also responsible for the 2010 European Classic prospect Fair Trade, trained by David Elsworth, but his northern hemisphere shareholders have decided to accept an offer to sell him to Ted Van Heemst’s Lynward Park Stud in Western Australia.

Trade Fair (ex Danefair by Danehill) was sold in a deal handled by David Redvers Bloodstock and John Chalmers Bloodstock.
David Redvers, who stood Trade Fair at Tweenhills Stud, commented: “Although I am very sorry that Trade Fair is not returning this season, we have managed to secure an excellent deal for his Northern Hemisphere shareholders and we also have an agreement from the new owners that we can lease the horse back next year should there be a demand for his services.
“He has made a bright start in Western Australia with his first runners and Absolute Pleasure, who won first time out at Ascot, Perth, looks an exciting prospect.  However, although he has had plenty of winners here and has the hugely promising David Elsworth-trained runner, Fair Trade, to look forward to, he failed to produce a stakes winner with his first two-year-old crop and that was going to make promoting him very difficult this season.  At the end of the day, we were made an excellent offer and it was in his shareholders’ best interests to accept.”
Tweenhills Stud is home to two highly-promising young stallions in 2010 in Lucky Story, sire of the Group 1 winner Art Connoisseur, and Sleeping Indian, whose  well-received first crop of two-year-olds will run this season.

Permalink| Jan 19, 2010

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