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BLOODSTOCK NEWS by Brian Russell
1st September Edition
Dashing Melbourne winner only runner for sire and dam
SHAUN DWYER found glory as a trainer in 2003 and 2004 with the General Nediym filly Regimental Gal, winner of the Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic and then at three the VRC Lightning Stakes, MVRC Australia Stakes, AJC San Domenico Stakes and Silver Shadow Stakes. At the same time he had the big thrill of having a runner in the 2004 Melbourne Cup, the Geelong and Grafton Cup winner Pacific Dancer.
Although he got a lot satisfaction out of their success, and that of many other winners that he has trained, a current rising star in his Bendigo stables is probably pleasing more as he has been involved in her breeding, including steering the fortunes of her sire and dam.
Enjoying her third Melbourne success when a dominant 2.5 lengths winner in the Listed Hollylodge Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday, August 21, she is 3-year-old Dutchy’s Lass and she is the only runner for both her sire Dutch Harry and her dam Southampton.
Also, although her sire is now 12-years-old, Dutchy’s Lass is one of only two named foals by Dutch Harry, one of the many good horses left by Glenlogan Park’s prematurely deceased St Covet.
Raced by a partnership, including the two Queenslanders, R.S. Willis ad M.G. Buys, who own Dutchy’s Lass, Dutch Harry was one of the horses who helped put Shaun Dwyer on the map as a quality trainer. Another horseman from central Queensland, he ‘studied’ training under the masters of the trade, working in the stables of Tommy Smith, Gai Waterhouse and Bart Cummings, before setting up himself at Toowoomba in 1998. Here he proved so successful he was named 2003 Queensland Trainer of the Year and also received the Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profile of Racing in Queensland. He moved to Victoria in 2009 and is one of that State’s emerging top trainers.
Dutchy Lass’s sire Dutch Harry (dam by the Nijinsky sire Yeats) was one of the good horses Dwyer put the polish on while at Toowoomba. At two he won at Eagle Farm and the Gold Coast, finished second in the BTC Champagne Classic-Gr.3, third in two Listed events at Eagle Farm and fifth here in two Group1s, the Sires’ Produce Stakes and T.J. Smith Stakes.
Successful twice at Eagle Farm and a fourth in the BTC Powerhouse Classic-Gr.3 at three, Dutch Harry has a double cross of the genes that produced Luskin Star in his pedigree. St Covet is a grandson of Luskin Star, three-quarter brother to Luskin Lace, the grandam on the bottom line of Dutch Harry.
Southampton Lass, the dam of Dutchy’s Lass, is a winner over 800m bred at the Lyndhurst stud, Warwick and sold at the Magic Millions Gold Coast sales as a yearling for $5,500. She is out of Zvornik Lass, a mare by the Todman sire Zvornik Lass.The bottom line goes back to the celebrated Dark Jewel.
Danasinga an early jewel for Princess Tracy family
DANASINGA, the sire of two metropolitan winners on August 21 in Metal Bender (the Warwick Stakes over 1400m at Warwick Farm) and Crabs (rattled up his third straight success at 2500m in three weeks when he won at Moonee Valley), has been one of Danehill’s most versatile sires.
Himself a good performer from 1000 to 2000m, efforts including a win in the QTC Stradbroke and seconds in the Doncaster, Doomben Cup and Grand Prix Stakes, Danasinga was one of five Group1 winners in Danehill’s first Australian crop, foals of 1991. One of the others was the Arrowfield based Danzero, a winner of the Golden Slipper and sire of a winner of it.
Also one of Danehill’s best sources of tough, mature gallopers, Danasinga is now at his third home as a sire, standing this year for the first time at Touchstone Farm, North Dandalup, WA. His 2010 fee of $8,800 appears very good value for a sire whose 361 winners of over 1000 races includes 30 stakes winners and 26 others stakes placed
At stud in New Zealand for seven seasons,1996-2004, and then in 2005-2009 at Baerami Thoroughbreds, Hunter Valley, Danasinga has had major winners at 1200,1600, 2020, 2400 and 3200m.
Winner of three Group1s, the Randwick Guineas, Rosehill Guineas and Doomben Cup, Metal Bender (out of the Bluebird mare Jacquin) heads the honour board. The others include winners of the Brisbane Cup when it was 3200m, Portland Singa and Piachay (second AJC Metropolitan), and the Group 2 winners Sylvaner (three at 1600m including the MVRC Sunline Stakes), Conquistar (at 1200 and 1600m New Zealand), Sarajay (two New Zealand and Group1 third), Ugachaka (VRC Edward Manifold Stakes, STC Queen of the Turf Stakes), Singalong (Te Rapa Sir Tristram Fillies Classic; Group1 second New Zealand Oaks, 1000 Guineas), Danamite (Avondale Guineas, second Rosehill Guineas, Canterbury Guineas, third AJC Derby), The Fuzz (VRC Blamey Stakes, second Perth Cup), Singing Star (Waikato Gold Cup) and Due Diligence (Te Rapa Sir Tristram Fillies Classic).
The secret of Danasinga’s success as a sire appears to be not only his sire Danehill, but his production by an imported fleet footed Irish filly, the Ahonoora mare Princess Tracy (1981 foal), who has established an outstanding Australian family. Deceased at 16 in 1997, she produced seven winners out here, the first two being Tracy’s Element (Australian bred Last Tycoon top South African sprinter who won11 races) and then Danasinga.
Returned to Australia for use as a broodmare and now in the ownership of Hutchins Thoroughbreds, Gold Coast and a resident at Vinery, Hunter Valley, Tracy’s Element has had all her seven runners win. The best of them are the Red Ransom siblings Typhoon Tracy, a winner of four Group1s to 1600m in 2009-10, and Red Element, a quality sprinter who won four races, including two Listed Stakes, in Melbourne, and placed in the Group 2 QTC Sir Byrne Stakes.
Red Element retired stud this year on $8,800, standing alongside Show a Heart, Falvelon, Jet Spur, Bradbury’s Luck and Real Saga at Glenlogan Park, Innisplain, Qld. He should add to the impressive strike rate of the Glenlogan sires.
Lonhro – Night Shift nick paying good dividends
QUITE often racehorses, like human athletes, fail to live up to the talent that they have because of physical problems. One eminent example among thoroughbreds has been former Woodlands, Hunter valley shuttler Night Shift, the sire of the dam of the new Lonhro star Parables, the winner at Warwick Farm on Saturday August 21 of the $125,000 Silver Shadow Stakes.
Bred in the purple in America, being a brother by Northern Dancer to a queen of racing and breeding Fanfreluche, the third dam of Flying Spur and fourth of Encosta de Lago, Night Shift ran seven times for one very minor win at six furlongs on debut and earnings of about Aust$12,000. An overseas review said he showed little of his relatives’ ability.
This did not stop him climbing up from modest mares to become one of the best sires of tough, durable winners in the northern hemisphere, much of the success achieved at Coolmore in Ireland. Here he stood besides Encosta de Lago’s sire Fairy King, another example that a well bred horse can rise above lack of proven racing ability and become a good sire if given the opportunity. Fairy King flopped at his only race start.
Night Shift’s northern hemisphere use resulted in nearly 700 winners of over 2000 races. Among 77 stakes winners were 31, including eight successful at Group1 level, who won Group events. On top of this his four visits,1994-97, to Woodlands resulted in 235 starters, 166 winners (9 SWs,16 SPs) of over 500 races.
He is now making a good contribution as a broodmare sire in both hemispheres, out here establishing a nick with rising super sire Lonhro. So far there are three stakes winners, Parables, Beaded (eight wins to Group 3, third two Group1s, the BTC Sprint, AJC All-Aged Stakes, fourth QTC Stradbroke) and Trim (eight starts include a Listed win, a second in the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes and a good fifth of 18 in the Group1 SAJC Sangster Stakes).
Also bred on the Lonhro – Night Shift cross is Dysphonia, a winner of four of ten outings, including three in Melbourne.
Like Lonhro and their dams, all four were bred by the Inghams when they had the Woodlands stud. All became the property of Sheikh Mohammed when he acquired the Inghams’ breeding and racing conglomerate for Darley. The Sheikh races the four Lonhro – Night Shift cross winners.
Illuminates spotlights Australian bred New Zealand star
ILLUMINATES, a tough 6-year-old race mare who made it 10 wins from 55 outings and pushed her earnings $890,000 when successful under top weight in the Listed Show Quality at Warwick Farm on August 21, is by the former first class Zeditave sprinter Strategic (now on $16,500 at Darley, Seymour,Vic) and from an unraced Danzero mare, Dazzle Light, who has only managed two winners from nine foals.
They are the Gerry Harvey bred and raced Illuminates, a mare whose record includes three Listed wins and a second in the Group1 STC Queen of the Turf Stakes, and her two years older half-sister Earla Margaret, a Grand Lodge mare. Now represented by a yearling filly by Strategic as her first foal, the latter won one race, a maiden at Eagle Farm, but also placed in Brisbane and Adelaide.
Illuminates success means that each of her first four dams has produced one or more stakes winners.To start with Dazzle Light is a half-sister to Stoway (by Geiger Counter; 12 wins, AJC Summer Cup, Hawkesbury Cup) and to London Lights, Sydney winning dam of Only a Lady (Sir Tristram; won AJC Flight Stakes, second Victoria Oaks) and Lisson Grove (Dehere; Listed winner Adelaide). Only a Lady has gone on to produce Redwood Falls (Woodman), a winner of ten races to Group1 level in Macau.
Bred in New Zealand, Illuminates grandam Travel Light (by the Petingo sire Bellisimo) was a first class performer, winning six races, including the Queensland Oaks and two Group 3s, finishing second in the AJC Surround Stakes and third in two Group1s, the AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes and STC Orlando Wines Classic.
Travel Light was one of two stakes winners from Otalight, a three-quarter sister to Tudor Light (All A’Light; 16 wins) and a half-sister to Elabama (Tudor Court; 10 wins). Raced only in New Zealand both Tudor Light and Elabama included in their successes the Group1 Auckland Railway Handicap.
Also successful in two Group 2s, including the Avondale Guineas, and third in another renrewal of the Railway, Elanabama flew the flag for Australian breeding. He was bred by the Bowcocks, owners of the Alabama stud in the Segenhoe valley near Scone for sixty years, and sold to New Zealand as a yearling in Sydney.
Elabama included three stakes winners among five successful offspring. One of them was Tudor Light, a winner of two Group1s, second in another and producer to Sir Tristram of Our Tristalight, winner of the SAJC Australasian Oaks and South Australian Oaks.
Our Tristalight is the dam of Danske, a Danehill who won the New Zealand Guineas and Auckland Guineas and who from use in New Zealand has sired over 200 winners, including 11 stakes winners and 19 other stakes placegetters.
One of Danske’s daughters, Quite Astute, is the dam of Smart, a winner at Doomben on August 14 and runner up on the same track on August 28. He is a 3-year-old in the first crop of Glenlogan Park’s very promising Flying Spur sire Jet Spur.
Illuminates is one of over 400 winners of 1300 races got by 18-year-old Strategic so far. Contributors have included 21 stakes winners, 26 others stakes placed and earners of $31.7million.
Strategic is a half-brother to Clang, a son of the Mr. Prospector sire Bellotto who stands at Willowbend, Beaudesert, Qld and who has over 300 winners of 950 races and $20.7million to his credit.
Show a Heart a toff among Australian sires
FEW can doubt after Saturday’s race results that Show a Heart, a resident in the sire yards of Queensland’s colonial sire bastion, the Glenlogan Park stud in the Innisplain valley, is a toff among Australian sires at this time.
Showing off Show a Heart’s sire prowess on Saturday were stakes winners at Rosehill Gardens and Caulfield who look set for big springs, two winners and a runner up at the Gold Coast, a winner each at Perth’s Belmont Park in Western Australia and Hastings in New Zealand and a third placegetter at Doomben.
The two stakes winners were the Glenlogan bred Rick Hore-Lacy trained Toorak Toff, a 3-year-old colt who produced a big finish to land the million dollar Group1 Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill Gardens, and the 6-year-old gelded Rightfully Yours, annexer of his tenth race in 24 outings when successful at Caulfield in the $100,000 Listed Clamms Seafood Stakes (1100m).
Rightfully Yours is a year older brother of Heart of Dreams, a million dollar earner and dual Group1 winner who bounced back from a spell too finish third behind Shoot Out and Predatory Pricer in a Group 2 sprint at Caulfield on August 14.Toorak Toff, now winner of five of eight starts, was successful on the same program in the $100,000 Listed Vain Stakes.
Last Saturday’s contribution by the Show a Heart progeny coincided with the announcement that night at the Queensland Racing awards ceremony for 2009-10 that he was again Queensland Champion Sire.
Although the 2010-11 racing year is only a month old, it is an award that Show a Heart should win again. One runner in particular which is expected to fly the flag boldly for him is Toorak Toff, a galloper who looks a real good prospect for the Guineas races.
The success of Show a Heart, himself, a Queensland bred national racing star who in earning $2.3million won four Group1s, including the Caulfield Guineas, and finished second in three others, could be very valuable to Australian breeding for 47 years after his death, he is revitalising the male line of Star Kingdom, the greatest influence in Australia in the second half of last century.
Show a Heart is a fifth generation descendant of Star Kingdom and the showiest physically of the breed, being a handsome chestnut with a blaze and three white fetlocks.
He is prepotent for these qualities, and also ability with Toorak Toff being an eye catching example.They are traits that Toorak Toff can be expected to transmit on, along with a new generation of Star Kingdom descendants if, as appears likely, he goes to stud.
Toorak Toff has a double dose of Star Kingdom in his pedigree, being from Orong, an unraced sister by shuttled Grand Lodge to dual Listed winner Avilde.They are out of Blixen, a Sandown Guineas winner by Mighty Avalanche, a son of the Star Kingdom sire Kaoru Star.
Blixen was bred by Jim Koureas when he had the Dalama stud near Muswellbrook and put Mighty Avalanche to stud. Former Dalama manager Michael Fitzgerald now conducts the Bengalla stud on this Hunter river bordered property.
Glenlogan Park stud had a big day with their sires on Saturday with all four in use who have runners making contributions at metropolitan racing. Besides Show a Heart, the others were Bradbury’s Luck (Redoute’s Choice), the source in his first crop of 3-year-olds of the filly Ringa Ringa Rosie, a three lengths winner at Doomben; Falvelon (Alannon), sire of Falvelina, a mare who followed a win at Doomben on August 14 with a third behind Ringa Ringa Rosie; and
Jet Spur (Flying Spur), sire of first crop 3-year-old Smart, a close second at the Doomben meeting. Smart also won at Doomben on August 14.
Double at Rosehill Gardens for Denise’s Joy family
DENISE’S JOY, one of the great matriarches of Australian breeding at this time, contributed to a winning double at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.The first leg was provided by the Gerry Harvey bred and raced Verballed, a 4-year-old mare who gets her Denise’s Joy through her sire, the up and coming Danehill winner getter Conatus.
Owned by a Harvey headed syndicate, bred by him and based at Heather Pascoe’s Plaintree Farms stud near Toowoomba in Queensland, Conatus is a former smart Sydney performer out of AJC Challenge Stakes winner Light Up The World, a Rory’s Jester grandaughter of Joy and Fun, a daughter of Showdown and Denise’s Joy.
As she is by Danehill and from Denise’s Joy, Joie Denise, the Queensland Oaks winner who is the grandam of More Joyous, the second leg of the double at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday, has very close blood ties with Conatus.
Bred and raced by Gerry Harvey’s partner in the Magic Millions Sales company and the Vinery stud, John Singleton (Strawberry Hills Stud Syndicate), the 4-year-old More Than Ready mare More Joyous on Saturday took her record to seven wins in ten starts and earnings to nearly $800,000 when she recorded a dominant win in the $100,000 Sheraco Stakes.
The effort of the Gai Waterhouse trained More Joyous, her first appearance since March 6 and her fifth straight win, suggested she will be formidable in big races in the spring. Her earlier successes have included the AJC Flight Stakes, Light Fingers Stakes, STC Reisling Slipper Trial and Tea Rose Stakes.
More Joyous is one of the most superbly bred horses, male or female, in Australia. She was got by Vinery stud’s very successful shuttle sire More Than Ready from Sunday Joy, an AJC Oaks winner who resulted from the mating to southern hemisphere time of Joie Denise (Danehill – Denise’s Joy) in Japan with Sunday Silence. In addition Sunday Joy is a half-sister to the Singleton bred and owned Tuesday Joy (by the Sadler’s Wells sire Carnegie), a champion mare who won seven races, including four Group1s, and earned $3.2million.
More Joyous, Conatus’s dam Light Up The World, Sunday Joy,Tuesday Joy and Joie Denise are among more than 30 stakes winners descending from Denise’s Joy, an outstanding galloper in the Tommy Smith stables in the1970s. She won13 races, including the VRC Oaks, MRC Underwood Stakes, QTC Queensland Oaks and WATC Australian Derby, and at two was second in the STC Golden Slipper and AJC Champagne Stakes.
As a producer of winners, Denise’s Joy was not a success, only three of her ten foals winning and Joie Denise (foaled when her mother was19) being the only one successful at stakes level. However, seven of the foals were fillies and between them they have established a top grade family.
Regrettably, the Denise’s Joy descendants have been light on for colts used at stud.
The only two with runners at this time appear to be Thorn Park (by Spinning World), a prominent New Zealand sire at the Windsor Park stud, and Conatus. Also represented on Saturday by Cataclysmic, a third in Perth and earlier winner four times, and last week by two winners at Rockhampton and one at Goulburn, Conatus is making an impression as a sire from modest opportunity.
Other Conatus progeny include Brisbane winners Gag Order (six wins, stakes fourth), Sky Effort and Convictor and Sydney winners Miss Campbell and Solatus. Conatus stands the 2010 season on $5,500.
A Denise’s Joy family produced sire who is to have representation over the next 12 months through first crop 2-year-olds is Primus, a Flying Spur Group 3 winner and money earner in four Group1s. Standing at the Chatswood stud at Seymour in Victoria and used over books of 122, 132 and 136, he is from a grandaughter of Denise’s Joy.
One of the best bred colts ever from this family appears to be the Singleton bred Redoute’s Choice yearling half-brother to More Joyous. He is booked into the Magic Millions sale to be held at the Gold Coast in January.
Nicconi brings Froth to the top again
AMONG the seventy sires who were paraded for visitors to the Upper Hunter in the past week were two new ones with a lot of blood in common who captured a lot of attention.They were new shuttler Big Brown, a great American classic performer visiting Vinery, and champion Australian sprinter Nicconi, one of the eight sires at Widden.
Both Big Brown (by brilliant Boundary) and Nicconi (by Swettenham stud’s leading Victorian sire Bianconi) are grandsons in male line of the awesome speed source Danzig and descend maternally from three-quarter brothers. Big margin Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown is from a mare by Nureyev, a three-quarter brother to Sadler’s Wells, the grandsire of Nicconi’s dam Nicola Lass, through his very successful sire son Scenic.
On top of this Nicconi is another star who has brought one of New Zealand’s best modern matriarches, his fifth dam Froth, to the top again. He is nearly a three-quarter brother to Niconero, a winner of five Group1s got by the Danzig grandson Danzero from Nicola Lass, and is a grandson of Dubai Lass, a Bletchingly mare out of Frivolous Lass, a daughter of In the Purple and Frivole, a Le Filou daughter of Froth.
A winner of the Champion Fillies Stakes in Perth, Frivolous Lass is sister to the dam of VRC Australian Guineas and WATC Rothwells Stakes winner Military Plume, a sire who started his career at Widden.
Nicconi is the third representative of the Froth family to stand at Widden, the other being the 2009 deceased General Nediym. His grandam Riticella was a three-quarter sister to Frivolous Lass.
The other descendants of Froth have included world champion race mare Horlicks and her Melbourne Cup winning son Brew.Yet another product is Monaco Consul, the New Zealand sired product of the first crop by High Chaparral who in the 2009-10 racing year won the Victoria Derby and AJC Spring Champion Stakes and finished third in the AJC Australian Derby. His sire is at Coolmore in the Hunter Valley this year.
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MOREE (NSW), Race 2:
Albert Motel Mdn Hcp
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| 13:25 | MOREE (NSW)
Race 2 | | 13:30 | SUNSHINE COAST (QLD)
Race 2 | | 13:45 | HOBART (TAS)
Race 3 | | 13:51 | GEELONG (VIC)
Race 2 | | 14:00 | MOREE (NSW)
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| SUNSHINE COAST (QLD) |
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| Race #1,
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| 1st | 5: Gypsy Rock | | 2nd | 6: Shady Deal | | 3rd | 7: Sui Babe | | 4th | 4: Tingles My Toes |
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| Race #7,
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| 1st | 1: Coopers Comet | | 2nd | 7: Thrillseeker | | 3rd | 5: Sunstance | | 4th | 3: Iron Hawk |
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| 1st | 1: Mieko's Diamond | | 2nd | 4: Dont Call Me Crazy | | 3rd | 2: Emerald Isle | | 4th | 7: Athenaeum |
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