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NSW BREEDERS’ UPDATE Spring / Summer 2019
NSW SUCCESS REIGNS THROUGH DROUGHT Article | J Christopher, photos courtesy of Kitchwin Hills & Vinery Studs
Vow & Declare (24 days old)
Vow & Declare (Inglis Classic lot 506)
Every NSW Breeders Update seasonal magazine lists NSW Bred stakes winners here and overseas. This edition is no different other than it covers a staggering five pages, proving the ever-consistent producers of Australia’s top bloodstock from NSW is unflappable and no climate dry, burnt, wet or otherwise has ever seen these results fade. The current racing season alone has some astounding statistics from progeny bred, born, raised and raced through one of Australia’s toughest droughts in over 100 years. • 92 NSW Bred Blacktype wins • 7 of the top 10 runners • 9 of the top 10 sires stand in NSW • 50% of the top 10 breeders Racing NSW’s richest new feature races were fittingly won NSW born and raised progeny “The Everest” went to 3yo colt Yes Yes Yes (Rubick – Sin Sin Sin) and “The Kosciuszko” to 4yo gelding Handle The Truth (Star Witness – Assertively). NSW-bred black type horses in the top ten of their generation were Bivouac (Exceed & Excel – Dazzler) winner of G1 Golden Rose, G2 Run to the Rose and G3 Vain Stakes. Exceedance (Exceed & Excel – Bonnie Mac) won the G1 Ascot Vale Stakes and G3 San Domenico Stakes. Begood Toya Mother (Myboycharlie Page Contents
– Lady of Helena) took out the Regal Roller and G1 Invitation Stakes. Deprive (Denman – Defrock) racked up two G3s, the Show County Quality and the Sydney Stakes. Alligator Blood (All Too Hard – Lake Superior) won the Listed Gold Edition Plate and G3 Caulfield Guineas Prelude. Exhilarates (Snitzel – Samaready) was successful in the Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes and G3 Quezette Stakes. Akari (Snitzel – Asterix) also won the Reginald Allen Quality and Desirable Stakes. In the long list of NSW-bred stakes winners nine have tallied up not one but two stakes wins each, 3yo filly Funstar (Adelaide – Starspangled), 3yo filly Libertini (I Am Invincible – Aloha), 3yo filly Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible – Maastricht), 3yo gelding Shadow Hero (Pierro – Sookie), 3yo colt Super Seth (Dundeel – Salutations), 4yo mare Flirtini (Artie Schiller – Ajaweed), 5yo mare Soothing (Lonhro – Dreamy), 5yo mare Teleplay (Written Tycoon – Special Episode) and 6yo gelding Samadoubt (Not A Single Doubt – Isadora). The 2 Australian bred runners in this year’s Melbourne Cup were both by NSW sires and born and raised in NSW, Youngstar (High Chaparral – Starspangled) at Bowness Stud in Young while the Cup winner Vow & Declare (Declaration Of War – Geblitzt) was raised in Australia’s Thoroughbred Capital, Scone.
