Until last weekend you could have forgiven us for thinking it never rained in the Wairarapa. The farm has needed the rain and Sam will be kept busy this week getting urea onto the pasture. Buzz is just out of hospital and will supervise Sam’s farmwork. By a complete stroke of co incidence, Buzz’s arrival co incides with Susie’s departure for a holiday overseas!
On the racing front it’s been a quiet last week locally for LA stock but a lot busier in oz.
It was quite a long weekend at Moonee Valley, for our broodmare Miss Beam (Centaine – Disa). On Saturday, Pintsize (Pins – Miss Beam) scored nicely over 1600m for trainer Danny O Brien, who also shares in her ownership. Danny thinks a bit of the four year old mare and looks forward to her getting over 2000m. To cap things off, the Lee Freedman trained Kitz Lane (Pentire – With Acuity) scored at the Valley on Monday over 2040m. With Acuity, a four time winning daughter of Grosvenor, happens to be the first filly bred from Miss Beam. Miss Beam, currently in foal to Towkay, has a Towkay colt on the ground this season.
LA’s acclaimed matron Sound Lover maintained a unique record on Saturday with the win by her Carnegie son Aggregate in Victoria. Winning as you like to see an 11/8 favourite do when it has your money on, by 3.5 lengths, the three year old gelding having just his second career start, became Sound Lover’s seventh individual winner from seven foals to the races. Aggregate was bought from our draft at the 2005 Australian Yearling Sales by Graeme Rogerson for $160,000. We retained Sound Lovers yearling filly by Zabeel, which we have named Bellabaci. She’s due to go off to Dean Hawthorne’s property any day now to be broken in and then she’ll head to Tony and Wayne Pike’s for her early education. The plan is that she’ll then join Danny O Brien’s stable in Melbourne. Sound Loverhas a weanling filly by Savabeel – who we shall look to retain as well – and was covered last year by Pins.
Up on the Gold Coast, also on Saturday, Brigelly (Towkay – Stranami) scored his second win from just four career starts for trainer John Morrisey.
On the subject of Towkay, Happee Owner was never a show in the stakes race in Hong Kong on Saturday night after receiving a check from a falling horse mid race.
And great news to finish, our new stallion Zed has 107 confirmed bookings! The pleasing thing for us is the high number of those mares who are dry and have not been served for a season or more. That is exactly the type of market we were targeting, turning ex breeders into active breeders again.
