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Henny Hughes heading home for 2013 northern season

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WA breeder Rangeview Stud has completed an arrangement to shuttle recent acquisition Henny Hughes (Hennessy – Meadow Flyer, by Meadowlake) back to the US for the northern hemisphere breeding season.

Rangeview secured Henny Hughes in a deal with Darley but the US demand for the stallion’s services allowed the Australian breeder to do a deal with Walmac Farm in Kentucky in 2013.

Henny Hughes sired the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Beholder (Henny Hughes – Leslie’s Lady, by Tricky Creek) to stimulate interest from North American breeders in standing the stallion before Walmac Farm succeeded in the race.

“What a brilliant year Henny Hughes has had,” Walmac Farm’s John T L Jones III said. “He’s arguably the top sire of precocious two year-old performers in North America today.

“He’s the leading sire of two year-old stakes winners and getting such a freak of a filly in Beholder who impressed us all with her two-turn victory in the Breeders’ Cup.”

In addition to beholder, Henny Hughes is represented by 2012 juvenile stakes winners Star Contender, winner of Canada’s important Cup and Saucer Stakes, and the recent Japanese Listed winner Keiai Leone.

Overall, Henny Hughes has sired 32 stakes horses and the earners of more than $10.13 million. There are also 11 winners to date among his first crop in Australia.

Walmac stood the great stallion Nureyev, sire of over twenty champions and a sire of sires; Miswaki, the sire of 97 stakes winners and an important broodmare sire; the wonderful stayer Alleged, twice winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe; the brave Preakness Stakes runner-up Sham, and Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Risen Star (by Secretariat). Former Heytesbury Stud stallion Is It True also shuttled from Walmac to Western Australia in the 1990s.

 

 

 

Henny Hughes heading west

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WA operation Rangeview Stud will stand the US Grade 1 winner Henny Hughes (Hennessy – Meadow Flyer, by Meadowlake) during the 2012 breeding season.

Henny Hughes has sired 111 individual winners from his racing crops, which includes six Stakes winners, for Darley before Rangeview Stud struck a deal to secure the stallion.

Henny Hughes has produced seven Australian winners in his first season. City winners Lil Red Corvette (Henny Hughes – Speedy Rossa, by Testa Rossa) and Hurricane Henny (Henny Hughes – Al Montahaa, by Sadler’s Wells) have served the sire well in the 2011/12 season.

Henny Hughes’s stock has performed well at various yearling sales around Australia with his yearlings fetching prices up to $210,000.

Rangeview Stud proprietors Rob and Jody Gray have set Henny Hughes’s 2012 fee at $7700, which is a drop on his previously scheduled fee of $11,000 at Darley.

“What really excites all who know quality and potential, is that Henny Hughes is actually already doing a great job at stud, getting winners all over the world and he’s only 9 years old,” the Grays said in a statement on the Rangeview Stud website.

“His reputation as a super type precedes him, and as said, he has already shown that he is passing that quality and presence on.”

Henny Hughes will join Key Business (Success Express – Business Babe, by Bletchingly) and So Secret (Danetime – Most Secret, by Bletchley Park) on the Rangeview roster.

 

 

Number two for Henny Hughes at Moonee Valley

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Lil Red Corvette (Henny Hughes – Speedy Rossa, by Testa Rossa) became the second winner for young Darley stallion Henny Hughes (Hennessy – Meadow Flyer, by Meadowlake) when the filly scored at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

Bertie’s Bells (Henny Hughes – Jamelden, by Kenny’s Best Pal) was the sire’s first winner in Tasmania in December last year before Lil Red Corvette opened the stallion’s account on the mainland with a brave win.

Lil Red Corvette showed good pace to share the lead before outlasting the David Hayes-trained Popular Acclaim (Exceed And Excel – Rekindled Applause, by Royal Applause).

The¬† filly’s success was training partners Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra’s fourth two-year-old success of the season. Lil Red Corvette had one previous start for a third at Flemington in October before shin soreness forced the stable to tread carefully with the filly.

“It’s always an advantage when they race in the spring and come back and had the run under their belt with the seasoning,” Ellerton said.

“It helps when you have got a few numbers, getting them in and out and sorting them out, who is ready and who isn’t.

“She pulled up very shinsore when she raced. She has had a break and come back, she has grown up a bit. She looks like she has got a bit of bottom to her too.”

Darley stallions off the mark

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Darley shuttle stallion Librettist (Danzig) sired his first Australian winner on Thursday when his son Carried Away (2 c Librettist Р Ballybelle, by Beautiful Crown) won a 900m Maiden at Queanbeyan in NSW.

Trained by Barbara Joseph and P A Jones, Carried Away (was untroubled at the finish to defeat Sydney Melody (Henny Hughes) by two and a quarter lengths.

Fellow Darley stallion Henny Hughes was represented by his first Australian winner on Wednesday when the Gary White-trained Bertie’s Bell (2 g Henny Hughes – Jamelden, by Kenny’s Best Pal) scored at Launceston.

Bertie’s Bells was bred by Cathy Hains’ Burnewang North and was purchased by one of his part-owners for $10,000 at the 2010 Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale. He is the second winner for metropolitan winning mare Jamelden, a half-sister by Kenny’s Best Pal to Group I SAJC Derby winner Testafiable.

Gr 1 winner Henny Hughes (Hennessy) is standing at Darley Kelvinside in 201 at a fee of $16,500 (inc GST).

She Digs Me romps Sapling

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She Digs Me (2 c Henny Hughes – Stage Stop, by Valid Expectations) was an eight-length winner of the Gr 3 Sapling Stakes (6f) at Monmouth Park in America on Saturday. She Digs Me was the last start winner of the Listed Tyro Stakes (6f) at Monmouth Park.

Trained by Steve Asmussen, She Digs Me has now won three of five starts with one second-place finish.

“I didn’t really get any instructions,” said jockey Elvis Trujillo. “The trainer told me to do whatever I thought was best. I saw there was a lot of speed in the race so the plan was to break well, take a hold, and sit right behind. Turning for home, he was still going easy so I knew I was in good shape.”

She Digs Me sold for $50,000 at last year’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Group 1 winner Henny Hughes (Hennessy) stands at Darley Kelvinside in New South Wales where his fee in 2011 is $16,500 (inc GST).

Canadian Gr 1 winner for Hennessy

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Inglorious came with a big finish in the straight to become the 34th filly in 152 renewals to win the Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most prestigious race, at Woodbine on Sunday.¬†Inglorious is from the 11th and final crop of former Coolmore shuttle-stallion Hennessy (Storm Cat),¬†who died in 2007 while on shuttle duty in Argentina.

A two-year-old Grade 1 winner himself, Hennessy developed into a versatile and highly successful stallion, his best winners including the outstanding European juvenile Johannesburg, dual 1,000 Guineas winner Special Duty, Grade 1-winning dirt sprinter and Darley shuttle-stallion Henny Hughes and multiple Group 1 winner Grand Armee.