LA October 2011
Apart from a couple of day trips to Hastings where we sponsored races on the first and second days of the Rush Munro Spring Carnival, it's been all hands on a lead rope at the farm the last month. Sam's even passed up a couple of tickets to the rugby in Wellington! We have had 63 foals to date on the farm and 30 of our own mares served, not to mention over 80 outside mares.
Per Incanto (Street Cry-Papa Reale) who must have been about as busy as Martin Snedden €“ but in a different context of course - over the last month, is proving extremely fertile, and with two more winners this week from his promising crop of three-year-old.
It's always exciting to have representation at the Melbourne Spring Carnival and if form in Melbourne and Sydney over the last fortnight counts for anything, LA look like having live chances in two of the group one features.
Per Incanto, Towkay and Zed
If we needed any more reassurance about the strength of the Street Cry sireline, the siring phenomenon recorded his thirteenth individual group one winner when Lyric of Light (out of a Green Desert mare) won the Shadwell Mile at Newmarket in England earlier last month.
The progeny of the mares served by Towkay when he stood his first season at $10,000 in 2007 are now three-year-olds and befitting the lift in quality of those mares compared to his previous seasons, it's probably of little surprise that these progeny are starting to shine on the racetracks of New Zealand and South East Asia. From eleven starters, there have been seven individual winners including the unbeaten Hong Kong juvenile from last season in Croesus( Towkay-Sonia Blade) and the promising Michael (Towkay €“La Grandezza by Flying Spur) in Singapore, with the debutante Elleaye (Towkay-Auxerre) almost making it a seventy five percent winners to runners percentage, going down by a long neck at Riccarton on Saturday.
Winners for Towkay over the last month have included:
Precision King (Towkay-Quasi Stellar) the Murray Baker trained gelding beat some promising fellow three-year-olds over 1200m at Taupo last week
Chicharita (Towkay-Trisynd) the Mike Moroney trained filly won a Three-Year-Old 1200m event at Pukekohe on 30 September
Acquit (Towkay-Out On Bail) bought up her fifth career win when scoring over 1600m at Riccarton
Cee Gee Jay (Towkay-Marjie Marjie) won over 1800m.
Great Renown (Towkay-Cantante) who raced as Tsonga in N.Z won over 1650m in Hong Kong
Ambitious Owner (Towkay-Melissa Moon) won over 1400m in Hong Kong
Voguish (Towkay-Finnegans Choice) won over 1200m in Macau
The progeny of Zed are starting to feature at the trials and jumpouts. Just last week he had three placegetters at the Hastings jumpouts so as they say watch this space!
Ready To Run Sale at Karaka 15 & 16 November
Our draft prepared by Mark and Shelley Treweek's Lyndhurst Farm in Cambridge is unquestionably the strongest line-up we have ever put forward to this sale. A pedigree snapshot is as follows:
Lot 74: A colt by the rapidly emerging stallion Darci Brahma from the dual stakeswinning producer Clermont Rose. The stallion has had a huge spring and the word throughout many of the leading Australasian stables is that there are plenty more as yet unraced talent to come.
Lot 185: As a half brother to the dual group winning Larry's Never Late this colt by the reigning Champion New Zealand Stallion Pins from the Caulfield Cup runner-up Laebeel was always going to be one of the most inspected horses at the sale, however the emergence over the last fortnight of his half brother Collar as a genuine VRC Derby chance is bound to add even more appeal.
Lot 198: One of only two Zabeel colts in the sale, the three quarter brother to group one winner Dress Circle is just the second living foal of a winning Towkay mare.
Lot 283: By another stallion firing on all cylinders at the moment in Savabeel, this colt is from the same family as the classy He's Remarkable.
Other News
The LA bred and owned Shuswap (Pins-Monashees) showed she was on target for the VRC Oaks with a win over 1550m in Sydney last week. Leased to a syndicate managed by Steven Seabrook's Sports Syndications, the filly was finishing strongly in stakes company over unsuitably shorter trips leading into last weeks effort, which all argues well for the Oaks early next month.
LA took two yearlings to the Sydney Easter Sale last year and remarkably both may end up starting in the Group One VRC Derby later this month, with Collar (O'Reilly-Laebeel), such an impressive winner of the Listed Westfield Doncaster Stakes at 1400m at Flemington on 2 October, the current favourite at 6 to 1. The Deep South (Darci Brahma-Southern Cry), who won over 1300m in Victoria earlier in September is likely to be at considerably longer odds, however with the Mike Moroney polish he can never be discarded from calculations.
An overdue success came the way of the LA bred Cool Rapids (One Cool Cat-Rapid Kay) at Doomben in Brisbane over 1400m last week. We will be taking a quality Darci Brahma colt from the group one placed Towkay mare Rapid Kay to the Karaka Yearling Sales next year.
The LA bred My Quilter (Pins-Sound Lover) who won over 1400m in Queensland on Sunday was a $160,000 purchase by John Foote Bloodstock from our 2009 Karaka Premier draft.
Savodara (Savabeel-Vedodara) enhanced her already significant broodmare value with a win over 1500m in New South Wales on Sunday. Her half sister the Group One Avondale Cup winner Sharvasti (Montjeu-Vedodara), a recent purchase by the farm, foaled a lovely Mastercraftsman colt two weeks ago at Trelawney where she will be served by Pins.
