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Australian Thoroughbred Breeders Club Limited
The Club, which currently has over 175 members, was formed to assist
thoroughbred breeders through the presentation of talks, seminars, stud
visits and social activities as well as providing incentive schemes and a
Stallion Tender Scheme. New members are always welcome and the
membership can be arranged by contacting the Club Secretary. Annual
membership fees are $50 for a single member or $70 for a joint
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Barbara Robertson,
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Brian Bresnahan,
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Wendy Simpson, Secretary
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Ethne Potowski, Assistant
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Queen’s Birthday weekend Bus Trip
6th, 7th & 8th June
Sandy Batchelor
Lynda Searle
Josephine Frawley
John Horton
As one of the motels is looking for 18 rooms for another group, we
need to know by 15th May, if you are coming on our trip to South
Western NSW studs.
Susan Harris
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Details are as follows:
The plan is to leave Windsor at 7.00 am on Saturday 6th, calling
at Peter Crisp’s world-class glass gallery near Yass, where we
will have morning tea.
Then on to Riverdene Stud at Wagga Wagga, where Strada
stands. Lunch at the stud.
Production Deadline: Please note that advertisements and articles must be received by the third Tuesday of each month to guarantee their appearance in that month’s Newsletter.
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The afternoon will be spent at Kooringal Stud,
home to Alert (Arg), Krupt, Shrapnel and Zariz.
Weather permitting, there will be a tour of this
multipurpose property.
Overnight in Wagga with dinner at the Motel.
Sunday, 7th will take in Bowness Stud, Meringo,
near Young, where Bon Hoffa stands.
Denis Doble of Norman Park Stud, near
Cowra, has kindly invited us to a champagne
and bar-b-que lunch before inspecting Intergaze.
Time permitting we will visit the magnificent
Japanese Gardens in Cowra, as well as
attending a wine tasting in a beautiful historic
building.
Overnight in Cowra with dinner at the motel.
Monday 8th we will see Mosayter (USA) and
Marechal, standing at Argyle Thoroughbreds,
near Orange, as well as successful small
breeder Fran Ovenstone’s beautiful stud.
Our final stop will be Winning Colours Stud,
home to the interesting coloured horses.
Return to Windsor at approximately 7 p.m.
The cost will be between $320 and $350,
depending on the numbers. All transport,
accommodation, meals and morning and
afternoon teas are included.
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Out of its ashes has arisen Sky Thoroughbred
Central on Foxtel and with it the return of
Caroline Searcy to the commentary team. Once
again she is trackside and in the mounting yard,
backing up her summary of each horse’s
presentation on the day with information on its
breeding and pedigree. Given this recent
addition to an already full life (as outlined in the
February newsletter), it was particularly
generous of Caroline to spend her evening with
us on 25 th March.
Members showed their appreciation by showing
up in good numbers – we had a full house
(approximately 30-40 people) – that
enthusiastically discussed points with Caroline
during and after the talk.
Caroline focussed on two issues, first the easy
access that Australians breeders have (if they
would choose to use it) to good local and New
Zealand breeding stock with proven staying
potential. Second the need to support the
thoroughbred population with diverse career
opportunities (aka racehorse rehabilitation).
Before expressing her views on these, she told
us how her passion for horses had started in
childhood in Adelaide and been nurtured by the
ponies and horses that have accompanied her
through life as she developed a professional
career in sports journalism and the broadcast
media.
An evening with Caroline
Searcy - by Josephine Frawley
Young girls are famous for their passion for
ponies. More unusual with Caroline was her
interest from the beginning in horse pedigrees.
One got the impression that, even as a child,
they were poetry to Caroline’s ears, and just as
readily recited. Now years of experience have
taught her that breeding cannot guarantee a
desired outcome. Even as a 10 year old, she
became acquainted with fillies from Rancher, a
Blue Diamond winner who left a modest record
as a stallion.
When the TVN network ceased transmission on
March 15th this year, its loyal subscribers and
rural race clubs felt used and abandoned.
Later, an early investment of $10,000 for a
quarter share in a filly by Thorn Park from a
Cinderella Stakes winning filly failed when the
Great value and good company!
To reserve a place ring Wendy Simpson on
0420 495 046, as soon as possible, but in any
event before 15th May.
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resulting filly didn’t develop well. Caroline kept
her to ride on her property at Windsor.
But the fact remains that the large majority of
stakes level races are won by horses with
pedigrees that include sires and broodmares
from select family lines and Caroline’s interest in
thoroughbred breeding remained, and remains,
strong. She quoted the affordable service fees
available for stallions with outstanding
pedigrees, but modest race records, such as the
$3,000 fee for Prince Arthur (Danehill).
More recently she sent a mare to Stryker
resulting in a new filly. As she and the other
owners are not planning to sell, there is no rush
to prepare the filly for the sale ring. Caroline
films her horses at every stage of their
development and sends copies to the owners.
Caroline then proceeded to talk about staying
stallions and home-bred versus imported stock.
It went basically as follows and any factual
errors are this reporter’s!
Our first stallions had to be imported and it
could be said that ‘internationals’ influenced
results of the first Melbourne Cup and our top
races for the next twenty years. They were
mainly English sire lines and within a few years
they were working well with Australian-bred
mares.
The Barb is a prime example. He won the Cup
in 1866. He was home-bred from Australian
stock, his sire was from all British stock, his
dam-sire line was also British but her bottom
line, the dam line, was all Australian bred.
British and New Zealand sires predominated
through the 1900s until the last 20 years when it
a broader European influence increasingly
appeared (and more recently a Japanese
influence). Even those families have their share
of British blue blood. Monsun, the late great
German sire, traces back through the dam line
to the Irish Blandford (1919). German
thoroughbred breeding is carefully controlled for
quality and produces far fewer foals per season.
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At this point an interesting discussion ensued
with the audience about the relevant differences
affecting breeding in continental Europe and
Australia.
Returning to the theme, Caroline cited the New
Zealand stallions that were strong from the
1970s such as Sir Tristram and his son Brew
whose pedigrees include a strong North
American influence.
Likewise the Japanese stallion, Delta Blues,
winner of the 2006 Melbourne Cup. His
pedigree boasts even stronger North American
influence. His grand-sire, Sunday Silence,
proved an outstanding sire when matched with
Japan’s brood mares. His daughter, Sunday
Joy, is the dam of the great Australian mare
More Joyous. Sunday Joy’s dam sire is
Danehill, American bred and a huge influence
on Australian breeding. He raced over 1200
metres but when matched with staying blood his
prodigious progeny have won races from sprints
to the Melbourne Cup.
Danehill was a grandson of the Canadian-born
sire Northern Dancer whose son, Sadlers Wells
also significantly influenced Australian and New
Zealand staying bloodstock through his sons
Montjeu (whose grandson the New Zealandbred Volkstok’N’Barrell won the 2015 Rosehill
Guineas), High Chaparral and, to a lesser
degree, Galileo.
Caroline’s point was that staying blood does
exist in the southern hemisphere, specifically
Australia and provides options for those who
want to breed stayers. Financial rewards are
there for the patient owner and trainer. Black
Caviar raced, and won, 25 sprints for prize
money topping $7m but Makybe Diva won 15
times over middle and long distances to earn
more than $14m.
Attitude has a lot to answer for. “Trainers used
to sprinters may decide a horse is slow when it
is simply not precocious”. This preference for
sprint to middle distance runners must largely
explain the poorer results for Galileo, who
excelled at 2000m and longer and is noted in
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Britain and Europe for producing top stayers
and milers like the great Frankel. Galileo had
some success here with the limited
opportunities presented to him on his shuttle
trips to Australia. According to Caroline, sales
companies have also been reluctant to sell
staying progeny. However she senses a change
is underway.
Indicative of this is the inclusion at the Inglis
Melbourne yearling sales of a Blue Riband
session to include the progeny of stayers such
as O’Reilly, High Chaparral and So You Think.
Coolmore stud is sponsoring the shuttling of
Camelot (Montjeu) who served 103 stoutly bred
mares in his first Australian season. Melbourne
Cup winner Americain covered 133 mares in his
2014 Australian season. Fiorente (Monsun)
covered 186 mares in his first season. Roman
Emperor (Montjeu) now a local stallion, has 50
foals on the ground after three full seasons and
for a modest service fee of around $5,000.
Carlton House served 40 mares for Darley and
Reset (a local Darley stallion) 100 mares in
2013 with 70 live foals. Caroline concluded by
saying that it is a challenge to opt for breeding a
stayer but the money is there and the bloodlines
are available in Australian-bred stallions and
mares.
A lively Q & A followed. Chris Lawler (sp?)
talked up the staying qualities of Dalakhani;
Jennifer Churchill decried the downgrading of
staying races (e.g. The Adelaide Cup) in both
distance and prize money; changing names of
classic races was also criticised and changed
programming of The BMW and the Queen
Elizabeth Stakes to accommodate the new
Championships. Sky Thoroughbred Central was
brought to attention.
Before adjourning for supper, Caroline spoke
briefly about her second issue, racehorse
rehabilitation. She described the work done by
inmates of St Heliers Correctional Centre at
Muswellbrook. In 2012, in conjunction with
Racing NSW, the centre commenced a
thoroughbred retraining and rehabilitation
program to the benefit of both horse and man
and the broader community. There are more
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such programs in Victoria. I suppose not many
of us were aware that Inglis sells horses for less
than $400 if they know they will go to good
homes.
There was more talk about careers for
thoroughbreds in the equestrian world of riding
for pleasure, eventing, dressage and show
jumping. It was a positive note on which to end
the formal part of the evening and Wendy
Simpson presented Caroline with a gift of
appreciation and our fulsome thanks for a most
informative and stimulating time. Conversations
continued over supper.
Editor’s Note: It was interesting to note that
almost as Caroline spoke, an in-depth study
into British staying races by their Thoroughbred
Breeders’ Association was published. It
highlighted the decline of the British stayer and
identified exports to Australia as part of the
problem. The TBA chairman said: ‘We cannot
afford to let the decline continue, otherwise we’ll
follow the path of Australia, where they can no
longer provide runners for their staying races.’,
calling on stake holders to protect a vital part of
the sport’s heritage.
HEVC Information Evening Monday 11th May @ 6.30pm
Vet, Jen Lugton, who has attended multiple
farrier workshops both in Australia and the USA,
will be discussing ‘The best ways to maintain
the health of your horse’s feet and what
early signs of disease you can start to
detect yourselves. She will be covering
conditions such as laminitis and the role of
Cushings Disease’.
Hawkesbury Equine with the support of
Boehringer Ingelheim are hosting the free
event at 226 Hawkesbury Valley Way,
Clarendon
You will need to book through the office or email
to attend. Phone No. (02) 4577 4611
email: hevc@bigpond.com
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Christmas in July
Keep Sunday 19th July in your diary for a
Christmas in July luncheon at Hawkesbury Race
Club. More details in the next Newsletter.
ATBC Racehorse?
The sub-committee looking at the possibility of
buying a share in a racehorse is busy seeking out
options. They will present information to a full
Committee meeting.
Ageing TB Broodmare
South West Sydney is alive
and well
I was alerted to a quote from Rob Waterhouse,
bemoaning the impending loss of the Inglis
Newmarket site and the possibility of a
relocation to Warwick Farm.
’I think it would be a huge mistake as I suspect
few "city types" will make the trek, "in traffic", to
the Farm. The Easter Sale could run the risk of
becoming a "wholesale" sale, missing out on
the crème de la crème – with the better
horseflesh tempted to the Magic Millions.’ he
wrote.
Selling through no fault of her own. Excellent lovely
natured companion & a god sent matriarch to foals,
weanlings & young horses.
Irene and I, long time urbanites, have left the
city and are building a house, not so far from
The Farm, and are quite prepared to put he and
Gai up, should the need arise.
She is paddock sound , no health or teeth
problems, easy to C, S, F, W & rug (does not
destroy rugs). Loves to swim in dams etc.
Robbie would, however, have to leave all those
unnecessary inverted comas and cooking terms
back home in Mosman.
Able to text photos on request.
Very much a regrettable sale.
Price is right for the perfect home.
Mare located in Bathurst NSW.
Ph:02 63371905 or 0421818362
Tony & Lee Pearse
Lease Share Available
2 yr old filly by Recapitalize from a Magic
Albert mare
She is correct, well grown, broken in and
ready to go to the track for her first
preparation.
For Lease
For further information contact Peter on
Unbroken: Rising 3 yr old brown / bay filly by
Double O from Dane Hill mare who has produced 2
winners (o/s)
To Good Home Only
Filly has good conformation and growth.
Able to text photos on request.
Filly located in Bathurst NSW.
Ph : 02 63371905 or 0421818362
Tony & Lee Pearse
0427 827 701
10 yo Brown Mare
Youthful Legs
Not Served 2014
Located in Wagga
Be Available early 2015
Ph: 0428 952 832 Jeff Piercy
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