It was certainly another great week for the Royal Blue, White Star and Red cap runners with Faith’n’Courage scoring a wonderful win at Doomben which saw her take her stakes earnings to $121,370.  She has been so consistent throughout her career and has earned a cheque in 27 of her 33 career starts.  She deserved to win a Saturday race and there is no reason she couldn’t step up to the plate again during this preparation.  She was very poorly ridden at her previous start which was disappointing.

Unique was good at Newcastle running the closest of seconds on resuming.  He is a ½ brother to Happy Trails who runs in the Cox Plate on Saturday.  Awasita was very good running 5th in the Alinghi Stakes after being galloped on in the race.  She won’t race again until after the Flemington Carnival as she required treatment for cuts to her legs.  The promising duo of Sitkamose and Arrayanes have done enough for now and head out for a break.  Pitt Street had no luck in running in the South Muswellbrook Cup being caught three wide throughout.  He is racing in great heart.

Faith’n’Courage winning at Doomben on Saturday

BAD WEEK FOR THE INDUSTRY

The industry has been rocked by the deaths of Caitlin Forrest and Carly-Mae Pye in separate accidents in SA and Queensland.  These are terrible times and while the industry leaders grapple with solutions to stop these types of accidents occuring the reality is being a jockey is the most dangerous profession in Australia. 

Our thoughts are with the families and friends of these two fine young ladies.

ON THE TRACK

We have a quiet weekend ahead with Terra Amata representing our team at Canterbury on Friday night and Savoureux perhaps running at Wyong on Sunday.  This is the quiet before the storm with a host of runners representing us in the two weeks to follow. 

Amongst these runners we are likely to have Husson Eagle, Hijack Hussy and the Hinchinbrook two years old filly Shining Brooke at Flemington during Cup week. More next week!!!

PROGENY OF PRIME MARES FIRE

It has been a great week for the progeny of Prime Thoroughbreds Syndicated mares.  Excites Zelady out of Zelady won the Listed Murray Bridge Cup, Powerline out of Graphite Lass won his maiden at Newcastle, Faith’n’Courage out of Red Centre won at Doomben and Supara out of Unabated was 2nd at Warwick Farm.  Interesting to see the horse that beat Supara was out of a mare Bill Mitchell trained named Mustang Sally by Zabeel.

There should be a few more runners out of our mares over the next couple of weeks with Zelady and Mal de Mer having three year olds not far away And Shine On Anna’s two year old  Hinchinbrook filly set to run in the Group 3 Emirates Airlines Plate at Flemington on Cup day.  Brooklyn out of Believe’n’Achieve was slaughtered at Randwick recently and looks to have ability.

I enjoy watching the progress our mares as they are good types and well looked after during their racing career.

While on mares I have had a few people ask me if we still had Unchain My Heart under our banner.  She isn’t.  She was sold at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and the syndicate that purchased her decided to race her on (none of her previous owners are in her).  I thought it was quite sad to see the mare following the Caulfield Cup field around on Saturday.

She had been very good to us and as an eight year old mare should have gone to stud.  End of story!!!

SYNDICATION OF THE WEEK

Husson colt out of Poplars, Tony Gollan to train

HUSSON COLT OUT OF POPLARS 2013

The Colt

This colt is strong well balanced athlete with great bone and good conformation.  In my opinion he was almost as good a colt as was in the Patinack Dispersal and represented great value when I purchased him.  We rated him just behind the two top selling colts in the sale.  He may well be the best valued buy from the sale.

He is a great walking colt with a great swagger and looks like a racehorse which is a common trait through the nice colts by Husson.  They are well balanced horses.

Husson

The colt is by Hussonet’s best son at stud in Husson and is a product of a very potent cross with Husson’s sire Hussonet only having four Snippets (Pins sire) mares going to him for four stakes winners including our smart two year old Huiskes.  The other three are Husson Lightning (successful sire in WA), Rio Carnival and Girl Hussler.

The results for Pins mares going to Husson is also very positive with two winners in Man Of Melody and Morals from just two to race.

It should be remember Hussonet came to Australia as a relatively old horse with his first crop of yearlings in Australia being born in 2004. his first crop in Chile were dropped in 1995. He is a super stallion and was brought to Australia by John Messara.

I have a very good filly with Tony Gollan named Hijack Hussy by Hussonet out of a Redoute's Choice mare. She was a sensational winner at the Gold Coast last Saturday and heads to Melbourne to run at Flemington. The only other Hussonet filly I purchased was the stakes winner Huiskes out of a Snippets mare.

Poplars (NZ)

Poplars is a daughter of the very good racehorse and sire Pins by Snippets.  I have highlighted the results achieved by Pins daughters going to Husson and Snippets mares going to Hussonet.

Pins is proving to be a very good broodmare sire with 108 winners from 183 starters including the high class colt Brambles as well as High Fashion, Golden Archer, Dowager Queen, Asavant, Lopov and Dugan.

Pins represents the best colonial bloodlines on offer in Australia with his sire Snippets, a Champion Broodmare Sire being by Champion Broodmare sire Lunchtime out of a Kaoru Star mare No Finer.  Kaoru Star was the sire of the great Luskin Star and himself a great sire of Brodmares..

It is of no surprise Pins daughters are doing the job at stud.  Poplars has had just the one to race with the filly named Craw winning two races.

The colt heads to Tony Gollan who trains the highly talented three year old Look Like The Cat.  This colt also has a distinctive white blaze.