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Well done to the connections of Little Bridge it was a great outcome for NZ. It is great to see horses winning from modest sale prices that go on and achieve stakes success, I think it is what keeps us smaller breeders going. Another one that comes to mind is Fay Fay in Hong Kong and there are plenty of others. We hear so much about the high profile sale horses but it would interesting to see the sale prices printed each year for in NZ horses who have achieved stakes success here and abroad. I know the Breeding & Racing Magazine in Aus does it at the end of each season and it is interesting reading.

2yr old Remind/Pheroz Beauty filly will be heading off to the breakers in the next fortnight. longacres.stud@xtra.co.nz

Googled and it came up that he is standing at Corner Stone Stud but he is not on their stallion list for 2012 but there is still information available on the studs website. http://www.cornerstonestud.com.au/ http://www.cornerstonestud.com.au/uploadmedia/Super%20Kid%20PDF%202010cornerstone.pdf

2yr old Remind/Pheroz Beauty (Manntari) Unbroken, half-sister to PETERGABRIEL - 24 starts 4 wins & 11 placings, won the WHAKATANE CUP and beaten by a long head in the WAVERLEY CUP. Half sister to MR ROAR - 2 wins 2011/12 in Malaysia. Dam has had two to the races for two winners (first foal was never tried). 2yr old Remind/Stavina (Stravinsky) Nice type, this filly was broken in February/March (was not worked at the track just around the paddock and roads) so is ready to go back into work after having a good break. Mares second foal. Current photos available.

14 years old - AIR DE FRANCE, ALQUOZ, LION HUNTER, RUSTIC AMBER, SERHEED, ST. JUDE and WILLOUGHBY 15 years old - BULL DOG, GALLANT MAN 16 years old - ADVENTUROUS, BELLOTTO, BUCKPASSER, BRIEF TRUCE, BUBBLE GUM FELLOW, COMIC COURT, COMMANDS, DISTINCTLY NORTH, ENCORES, HALO, HIS MAJESTY, IRISH RIVER, NORTHFIELDS, PERUGINO, SANCTION, TIMBER COUNTRY, TODVEGA 17 years old - ADAM, HAWAII, HULA CHIEF, IVORY’S IRISH, MACHINE GUN TOM, MAN O’WAR, MISTER C, MONDE BLEU, PINS, ST. SIMON 18 years old - ALIBHAI, BAGUETTE, BERNBOROUGH, DOUBLE JAY, GEIGER COUNTER, KENVAIN, NATIVE DANCER, NEARCO, PICCOLO, POLISH NAVY, ROYAL ACADEMY, SOVIET LAD 19 years old - GALOPIN, STOCKWELL 20 years old - DAMASCUS 21 years old - HOLD YOUR PEACE, KLAIRON 22 years old - BOIS ROUSSEL, HIDEYOSHI, WILD AGAIN List from - http://www.pedigree-dynamics.com.au/articles-general.html

Tina, every season many South Island breeders send mares to the North Island and bring their mares and foals home without any problems. So do not let that be a reason to count out a South Island stallion.

Some statistics from the last two years Ready to Run Sales from Arion

7 colts & 1 filly with one to go, guess we will be getting fillies next season to make up for the this great run.

Unusual Suspect to start stud career in Oz Unusual Suspect, a son of Penpont, who was bred by Ashburton breeder Tony Cook, is to kick off his stallion career in Australia this coming season. He was due to come out of quarantine in February. His trainer Barry Abrams said there was a chance he would race in Australia but he couldn

Deputy Minister Champion 2YO colt in USA in 1981 & Canadian Horse of the Year. 12 wins-8 at 2-from 5f to 9f, Laurel Futurity S.,Gr.1, Meadowlands Young America S., Gr.1, Belmont Tom Fool H., Gr.2. Champion USA Sire in 1997, 1998. Champion USA Sire(AEI) in 1997, 1998. Sire of 90 SW. Champion USA Broodmare Sire in 2006, 2007, 2nd 2008. 191 SW as a Broodmare Sire. Sire Sons Silver Deputy (83 SW), Dehere (67 SW), Salt Lake (66 SW), French Deputy (44 SW), Awesome Again (41 SW), Touch Gold (27 SW), Deputy Commander (20 SW), Edgy Diplomat (20 SW) etc

We find arion good at getting race results through using the racehorse tracker/mare tracker/sire tracker etc. http://www.arion.co.nz For pedigrees http://www.pedigreequery.com but the only problem is that anyone can add or delete information. You can track racehorses like you can on the tab website on this one. http://www.drf.com Also find these two sites good for general information and you can search past articles on horses as well. http://www.bloodhorse.com http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com Hope these help and I am sure there are more that I have not listed.

Here are two others - Danehill Deputy Minister

Hedwood Thoroughbreds 03 347 3224 (Kay & Marie) Long Acres Stud 03 318 3083 (Myles & Debbie) Pear Tree Farm 021 034 8039 (Anna & Michael) Not in any order other than alphabetical. All do a good job and have advertised in the NZTBA CMW Branch - Sth Island Breeder Magazine with spaces available for the Sth Island Sales.

Juvenile champion Uncle Mo, the second choice on the morning line, was officially scratched out of the May 7 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). The scratch came after days of speculation about the status of the son of Indian Charlie . He had been treated for a gastrointestinal tract infection that was diagnosed after a third-place finish in the April 9 Resorts World New York Casino Wood Memorial Stakes (gr. I), his first career loss. Trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Mike Repole held a press conference at Churchill Downs at 9 a.m. EDT on to announce the decision. Despite having a top team of veterinarians who have examined the horse since he arrived in Louisville last week, nobody has been able to diagnose Uncle Mo

I see the Uncle Mo was scratched early this morning NZ time from the Kentucky Derby but NZ TAB still do not have him scratched???

Mail service back on track and I only started getting it since it came back to show support for the publication and it has always arrive on Friday until this week.

I am in Christchurch and my copy did not arrive in this mornings mail.

He is on the Coolmore Ireland roster standing at

It was great to see the fillies go so well taking the first four placing and sixth.

One other thing with the http://www.werkhorse.com site information listed here is only for the studs that have paid to have their stallions to be enrolled on the site, there are quite a few stallions that are not listed and even some studs with only some of their stallions listed so to get full report you would have to pay for the information. Also some of these programs do not take into account the female line of a pedigree and as we get reminded all the time every horse has a mother and she will have the greatest influence on the foal

Interesting to see that in all those ratings none come direct from Cape Cross they have to go back to Green Desert to get a rating. We looked at Gr1 Goldmine and as a broodmare sire Cape Cross has left three group winners to date with only one being by a stallion that we know in NZ

These figures were printed in the ANZ Bloodstock News today can anyone add the NZ percentages to the thread. Statistics from both the Australian Racing Board

I found this article on Curlin, sorry it is an old one but it made me think about how many people would have walked away from him due to him not being perfectly correct and a question mark on his x-rays but none of it mattered in the long run as what a racehorse he was. Blemish Made Curlin a Yearling Bargain 5/26/2007 By FRANK MITCHELL, Daily Racing Form LEXINGTON, Ky. - After his victory in the Preakness Stakes, Curlin filled the eye of race watchers and television viewers around the country as a grand specimen of the Thoroughbred racehorse. Not only is the son of Smart Strike a game and talented colt, but the blaze-faced chestnut is a big, very robust, and handsome animal who seems to improve with each race. At this pinnacle of his young career, he has a nearly spotless racing record and a future of great promise. At the sales in 2005, however, many yearling inspectors marked the future classic winner off their lists because of a minor veterinary concern. So Curlin's success illustrates that a good-looking, well-balanced, athletic yearling should not be written off as a suitable prospect because of a minor blemish or two. While even Curlin had one, the man who saw the promise in the colt, despite a minor ding, was trainer Ken McPeek, who found in Curlin a colt with all sorts of athletic potential. Bred in Kentucky by the Fares Farm of Lebanese politician and businessman Issam Fares, Curlin, like most of the Fares Farm homebreds, was consigned to the Keeneland September yearling sale, selling through Eaton Sales, agent, in 2005. There McPeek acquired the colt as agent for Midnight Cry Stable for the pittance of $57,000. "Curlin had a great hip and balance, a great presence," McPeek said. "Without the vet issue, he brings $200,000 to $300,000. So the buyers were able to get him for tremendous value for the level of potential he had. "He was a very big, strong, serious horse - just a tremendous athlete. He wasn't for every buyer because he did not have the prettiest head, was not totally perfect in front. "There was a note on him in the repository," he added, referring to the X-ray and veterinary information on yearlings, "and that put a lot of pinhookers off the horse. My vet felt that it would be fine with time, and we took a shot with him." Taking that shot has paid enormous dividends to McPeek's client, Midnight Cry Stable, who not only got a Preakness winner but also sold a majority interest in the colt months ago for more than $3 million. The veterinary comments on the yearling Curlin concerned his left front ankle. In the long preparation to be a commercial yearling, Curlin had acquired a calcium deposit on that ankle that significantly diminished his value at the sales. Shannon White, general manager for Fares Farm, explained that Curlin "was always about 10 percent above average for weight and height in his crop of foals. We weigh our foals monthly to keep track of their development, and he was one of our nicest." As a rugged and robustly made young colt, however, Curlin began to bow out at the knees and turn in at the ankles, faults that are severely penalized by yearling buyers. "He toed in badly in the left front ankle," White said, "and to correct that we had a transphyseal bridge put in place, and after it has been in place more than 30 days, you can have some calcification, which was the case with Curlin. The procedure was done at about 60 days of age, with one screw above the growth plate, one below the growth plate, and a wire that applied torque on that side of his ankle." This procedure was done by Dr. Rolf Embertson at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital on the recommendation of Dr. Debbie Spike-Pierce, who does the vet work for Fares Farm. This is a relatively common procedure, and is done to present buyers with yearlings that are expected to be sounder and more raceable. The procedure with Curlin worked as planned, but there was the complication of calcification on the ankle. "Despite our best efforts with after-care and sales prep, he carried the bump [from calcification] with him to the September sale," White said. "Naturally we were disappointed he didn't bring more at the sales, but he did have a blemish on his left front ankle." Although the blemish cost the breeder at the sales, it doesn't seem to have slowed down Curlin one bit. After Curlin won his debut impressively, Stonestreet Stables, Padua Stables, and George Bolton bought a majority interest in the colt and transferred him to trainer Steve Asmussen. Curlin is the fifth foal out of his dam, the Deputy Minister mare Sheriff's Deputy. She has not had the most serene career as a broodmare. Her third foal, a half-sister to Curlin, died at 3, and the mare was barren the year after she produced the Preakness winner. Then in 2006, the mare's filly by Medaglia d'Oro died as a foal. On the positive side, Sheriff's Deputy has a good-looking and progressive filly at her side by Horse of the Year Saint Liam. This is one of the foals in the only crop by Saint Liam, who unfortunately died last summer as the result of a paddock accident. Sheriff's Deputy was bred once to Curlin's sire, Smart Strike, after foaling this spring. She is not in foal, and will probably be given the year off.

Kay and Pam thank you for the nice comments about Remind, we have had so many positive comments about the temperament and type he is leaving. Lot 54 was a nice type but unfortunely her problem was her gender a filly, the Sth Island sale is normally hard on the fillies but this year it was even harder. I know of some that were not even taken out of their box until they walked to the sales ring.

Yes our has its racing name and that it is in Singapore in the stud book which is great but they did not have to change the ownership of the horse to export him.