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Bletchley Park - From one of the best families in the Stud Book/Proven
Oratorio - another Mungrup success story
Due Sasso - scenic speedster like Scenic Winner of the Dewhurst
Balmont - Great type Typical European style Stravinsky
Flying Pegasus - australian bred sprinting powerhouse (Mr P * Danehill)
Saxon - Produce nice leggy staying types who can run over a mile
Husson Lightning- 1000m rabbits good for running around tight circuits
Shrewd Rythm - Regally bred ? by Danehill's only successful sire producer
Bearcat - Catbird and Danbirds full brother, early speedy types 1600m max - will his fillies be better than the males?
Foxhound - Proven stallion in many countries - great producer.
I guess it's all a matter of opinion, but my top 10 would be;
Oratorio - has surprised me. I wasn't a fan of him on the track but a great pedigree.
Viscount
Blackfriars
Bearcat
Due Sasso - pick of this years first crop sires imo
Bletchley Park - proven, can't leave out
Vital Equine - reckon he will prove himself
Fath - has good results in Europe
Passenger - will be interested to see his first crop
Toss-up between Trade Fair, Danehill Express & Balmont. Might have to make it a top 12 :P
So as much as I like Bearcats, I couldnt put him in a list this year. Perhaps at the end of the next racing season when he is a little more proven. So discounting all of the first and second season sires, my WA based active list would look something like this:
Oratorio
Bletchley Park
Blackfriars
Viscount
Hurricane Sky
Key Business
Akhenaton
Bearcat
Cape North
Due Sasso
Trade Fair
And of those not yet presented at sales:
Vital Equine
Fath
Passenger
So Secret
Danehill Express
Akhenaton and Cape North surely you jest.
Didn't Trade Fair's go through last years sale ?
Yes Trade Fair had his 1st oz crop go thru last year, but then got caught up in quarantine due to EI, hence none at this years sale.
Akhenaton, well no surprise that one came out! :P
124 fans and counting on facebook, of which I see a familiar smiling face, so Akhenaton does have some followers out there Wilson, even if some are hiding in the cupboard. LOL
he never looks for the perfectly conformed horse
Example Fighting Falcon -
Sire Manila - the Lyphard strain isnt noted for being a sire of sires
Dam Sire - Bold Forbes a second rate descendent of Bold Ruler?
Grand Dam Sire - Levee Dancer - an unproven son of Native Dancer
Type - Magnificent Athletic type, great topline, great temperament,not too heavy, he won several nice races.
Conformation - he wore a tongue tie in all his race starts does this impose a question he could have had a breathing problem? Was he choking down in his races? Or do the Americans put them on all their horses?
If you see stallions paddling away in front or have major leg deformaties such as behind the knee, whats the chance of throwing the genetic default into my horse
Apart from the tongue tie, a magnificent individual with a weak pedigree with no strengths who failed as a stallion here.
TYPE, CONFORMATION AND PEDIGREE
you also can have the best type in the world but if it's not interested in what it's bred to do you have no hope eg. I've had ones that when I pick up the halter they stand at the gate saying pick me and others that say oh no not again... I'm not trying to stir things up at all , just playing devils advocate :) I think most here would have a clue , but you would be surprised at the amount of people that think their horses are robots.
I bred a horse Thermo King for $1500.00 + Gst, he returned $134,000, now thats cheap.
You could never have sold him he was as big as a grass hopper when he was 2yo, he disguise was that he was inbred to great mares and carried many different strains of Star Kingdom including that stallion Old Spice which as definition sees it has to be the most successful stallion ever to stand in WA in the last century - Thanks to Mr Peters and the late Mr Spencer for his success.
When you think Cheap you must think clever to achieve your ultimate success
I didn't think that was you
And without the risk of the mare slipping, poor conformation or killing themselves in the first 18 months
neverless, any horse that can win over $100k is a beauty.
And yes Tete my name doenst appear on Big Ted's document of breeding description however when the owner bought the mare from Cliffy Brown's father in Melbourne and asked me what the best stallion was going around I recommended Marooned.
Does that make me an advisor? or a great breeder of bloodstock at the age of 18 years old,
I think one of the owners of that great My Atacanta achieved success when Toxic saluted Yes!
Ankle deep maybe, however theres nothing better seeing a horse like Thermo King licka of Whiskets salute on Saturday in Metro class as the first ever horse you have bred.