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HUSSON Arriving in Australia as a World Champion Record Breaker, HUSSON is also a son of the highly successful stallion Hussonet (sire of Australian Horse of the Year, Weekend Hussler). The biggest question was, could Husson live up to the wraps? Well, he's certainly off to a great start with his first runner - Hussousa - capturing the Gimcrack Stakes-LR on debut!

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stayers, although Aussie breds won in 2009 (Shocking) and 2008 (Viewed) and Makybe Diva (2003-2005) came to Australia as a yearling. Sure, that doesn’t quite make her Australian, but given that her sire, Desert King, has stood in Australia for 11 of the past 13 seasons, she’s got better claims than most.

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Did we complain this much when the Kiwis kicked our derriere every year?

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THE GOLD COAST Yearling Sale is renowned for quality, variety and value … the 2012 sale will be no different.”

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The 2012 sale will be different because this is the first year that Cox is steering the ship.

Sure, no one is expecting miracles – especially in a deflated economy – but Vin Cox is one of the industry’s most progressive thinkers with some 25 years (proactive) industry experience and a swag of international contacts. >>

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You can rest assured that he hasn’t let the grass grow under his feet since his appointment as MD and would have noted with some interest the success of recent sales in North America and, to a lesser extent, Europe.

be on the streets and, secondly, there is also the opportunity to view online by visiting www.magicmillions. com.au

The third option – and undoubtedly a portent for major sales – FASTNET ROCK - STARRING ON TWO FRONTS you can download the equineline Sales Whether that flows Catalogue application Lago along with exciting down under is the big freshmen sires such as for your iPad. question though and the Northern Meteor, Sebring Don’t have an iPad? Get one! answer to which we’ll have and Henrythenavigator.

Instead of lugging around to wait for until mid January. the traditional weighty tome What’s more, the catalogue No-one is certainly making includes full or half relations for five sessions (and God any bold predictions insofar to star gallopers Absolut knows how many inspection as the bottom line, although days), you can download Glam, Albert the Fat, Black the new captain did depart the application to your Piranha, Charge Forward, from script to say “the Fastnet Rock, Melito, Once iPad (it’s free too) where catalogue will most likely you will be able to assign Were Wild, Racing to Win, include the 2013 Golden Rock Kingdom, Streama, ratings, make conformation Slipper winner”. notes, record veterinary Toorak Toff, Universal Prince information and write on and Whobegotyou, while One supposes that producing and highlight catalogue Group One winning mares seven of the last nine Slipper pages in colour. Users can with progeny set to go under winners to step through a also create “short lists” and the hammer include Allow, sale ring, gives you the right view mini catalogues with Aqua d’Amore, Cheeky to be a little bit bold. the important information Choice, Danni Martine, suited to that individual.

Whether or not the Slipper Hasna, Hill of Grace, Inaflury, Lotteria, Penny Gem, Perfect prediction does eventuate, Furthermore, when you’re on Promise, Portland Singa, it would be hard to argue the complex, complimentary Regimental Gal, She’s a with his assessment: “The wireless coverage is available 2012 sale will include many Meanie, Sydney’s so you can effectively sit in Dream, Tempest future Group One winners, the bar, view plus dozens more stakes Morn, Universal your notes and winners around Australia Queen and watch Upsetthym. and abroad.” the yearling The ‘assemblage’ is, again, impressive with 892 lots to be sold over five sessions which kick off on Wednesday 11 January.

Naturally, the nation’s leading sires will be represented – Fastnet Rock, Lonhro, Redoute’s Choice, More Than Ready, Bel Esprit and Encosta de

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LONHRO (Australia’s reigning Champion Sire) EXCEED AND EXCEL (Champion Sire of 2YOs by winners) COMMANDS (over 500 winners & 40+ stakes winners) DEHERE (sire of Golden Slipper winner & over 70 stakes winners) SHAMARDAL (sire of multiple G1 winners) BRADBURY’S LUCK (sire of 2011 G1 winner Luckygray) and the most promising ...

SEBRING (Golden Slipper winner) NORTHERN METEOR (Group One winner) WAR PASS (Champion 2YO colt) ASTRONOMER ROYAL (Classic winning son of Danzig) CALIFORNIA DANE (offering a half G1 winner Once Were Wild) WHERE’S THAT TIGER (offering a half brother to 2 current SWs) SNIPPETSON (sire of G2 winner Fast Clip etc.)

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PARK THIS PAIR SIS PARK, RENOWNED FOR PRODUCING strong-boned, quality individuals off its boutique property at Childers in Queensland, will certainly enhance its reputation at the 2012 Gold Coast Magic Millions.

Isis Park will offer a dynamic duo, namely a strapping colt by leading sire Stratum and another colt by promising stallion, Snippetson.

The Snippetson out of Less Speed (by Quest for Fame), which enters the ring as Lot 688

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Meanwhile, the Stratum enters the ring six lots later (Lot 694) and aside from his sire’s propensity for producing early comers, the colt boasts a family of juvenile black type.

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LOT OF GOOD HORSES HAVE emerged from in and around Braidwood, NSW over the years and purpose-built, Cinque Cavalli, is looking to add to the tally with its small, but elite draft for the 2012 Gold Coast Magic Millions.

Cinque Cavalli boasts large, sloping paddocks to promote exercise and solid growth (“no couch potatoes on our farm”, owner Mary Bray points out) and it’s clearly evident with the trio the farm will offer for the opening sale of the season.

First cab off the rank is a tall, athletic bay colt by boom Danehill stallion Oratorio (sire of Banchee, Manawanui etc.) from the Mossman mare Jargon (Lot 666).

Jargon, who has already produced the multiple 2YO winner, More Than Words, is a daughter of Melbourne Group Two winner and Group One placed Orsay, while the rest of the family is overflowing with black type.

Cinque Cavalli will also offer a pair of Choisir fillies – which, in light of Sacred Choice’s 2011 Doncaster Handicap victory – is darn good timing.

Lot 839 (“built for speed”) is out of the Catrail mare Cashell, a half sister to European stakes winners Spend a Penny and Life On Light

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and a close relation to Melbourne G2 winner Barbaricus. Significantly, Cashell has gotten three to the track … all of them winners!

Last, but certainly not least is Lot 846, a chestnut filly from Gone West mare Chello Chello, that is described by the farm as “very powerful, with a huge backend and well muscled throughout”.

What a family: Chello Chello is a three quarter sister to Belmont Stakes-G1 winner Commendable and she also hails from the family of Champion Sire Fappiano.

Cinque Cavalli’s draft is based in Row QB and is again likely to play host to buyers such as Matt Ellerton, Simon Zahra, Kim Waugh, David Jolly and co. who have all purchased from the farm previously.

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Former jockey-cumcommentator, Wayne Harris, had told the stay at homes that he would have liked to find a place for Southern Speed in his top three as they went out on to the track and the mare was hardly a rank outsider, firming into $10 – third favourite – by the time they’d jumped.

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Notching up three victories in as many starts, including the The Mittys Vanity-G3 (1400m) at Flemington, Southern Speed then finished midfield in the Australian Guineas-G1 (1600m), was beaten a lip after trouble in the Schweppervesence Stakes-G3 (1800m) and, prior to a five month spell, a solid third in the Schweppes Oaks-G1 (2008m) … a remarkable rise from maiden to Group One placing in the space of two months.

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Meanwhile, Halo’s Image didn’t quite attain the same heights on the track, but given Halo himself produced 57 stakes winners and something of a dynasty via Sunday Silence, all is forgiven.

Besides, as ANZ editor, Darryl Sherer, points out in this comprehensive assessment of Southern Speed’s pedigree, Halo has plenty of heavenly descendants in this neck of the woods.

A rough-tough runner, Halo (by Hail To Reason) won the United Nations Handicap-G1 when trained by Mac Miller and proved even better at stud, heading the North American General Sires list twice (1983, 1989) and siring two Kentucky Derby Winners, Sunny’s Halo and Sunday Silence.

Initially standing at $16,500 – the year Southern Speed was conceived – the final asking price was $9,900 (now permanently based in California, the bay/brown stands at an advertised fee of $2,500).

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Halo was noted for an aggressive temperament, something he could pass on to his offspring and was pensioned from stud duty in 1997.

He died in 2001 aged 31.

Halo has had some successful sons at stud in Australia, most notably Don’t Say Halo, while his champion sire son Southern Halo is the sire of More Than Ready, who has shuttled to Australia with great success, siring the likes of Group >>

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It certainly gave the owners and trainer Leon Macdonald plenty of encouragement for a tilt at the Caulfield

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Still, Southern Speed managed to find trouble in the Spotless Stocks Stakes-G2 (1600m) at Moonee Valley with Danny Nikolic on board, although it was a much improved effort, running on strongly for fourth and beaten less than two lengths after being tightened for room and becoming unbalanced 400m from home.

Team Speed would have paid good money for a trouble free passage when their mare took on the Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes-G1 (1800m) at Caulfield and the punting fraternity deserted her sending her out a $31

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One winners More Joyous, Sebring and Phelan Ready. More Than Ready has enjoyed great success with mares carrying Danehill in their pedigree, Sebring and More Joyous two examples with More Joyous herself inbred to Halo, and Southern Speed is bred on a similar Halo / Danehill cross.

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Bred in Florida by Arthur Appleton, Halo’s Image was a durable racehorse over four seasons, winning the Calder Derby at three and carrying on to win at Grade Three level at five. Halo’s Image only left three crops, dying of a heart attack in 2001 and Southern Image is his best runner.

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Also bred by Appleton, Southern Image won his only start at two and he only raced three more times the following season, winning the Malibu Stakes-G1 over seven-furlongs (1400m) at Santa Anita where he ran 1:22.65. At four, Southern Image won three of his four starts, notably the Santa Anita Handicap-G1 over a mile and a quarter (2000m) and the Pimlico Special-G1 over nine and a half furlongs (1900m), retiring the winner of six of his eight races and placed in the other two.

Retired to stud in 2006, Southern Image has just three stakeswinners to date from 272 named foals in both hemispheres with Southern Speed clearly his best runner. His overall figures in North America are better than 50% winners to runners, headed by this year’s Toboggan Handicap-G3 winner Calibrocha.

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Southern Speed’s fourth dam is the Royal Ascot Queen Mary Stakes-G2 (1200m) winner Rory’s Rocket, imported into Australia in the 1970s by the late Leigh Outtrim who bred and raced Rory’s Jester.

Rory’s Rocket is by the very fast Roan Rocket out of the 2YO Listed winner Cantadora, winner of the Acorn Stakes at Epsom and a daughter of the sprinter, Matador, winner of a July Cup and Cork & Orrery Stakes.

Southern Speed carries several influences of Almahmoud: her sire Southern Image is inbred 4 x 5 to Almahmoud through her daughters Cosmah, the dam of Halo, and Natalma, the dam of Northern Dancer. Her dam is inbred 4 x 4 to Northern Dancer with her maternal grandsire Danehill inbred to Natalma, from whom he descends.

Southern Speed also carries duplications of His Majesty, the broodmare sire of Danehill, Sir Ivor and that horse’s grandsire Turn-to within her first six generations.

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career as trainer, Macdonald also made sober mention of Clare Lindop who had been dumped as Southern Speed’s rider after the tumultuous early spring: “That’s probably my saddest moment in the whole thing, that Clare wasn’t on the horse … she spent a lot of time getting this horse ready and it’s just not good.”

Perhaps the greatest success story to emerge from the whole affair though are the largely unsung (from a media perspective anyway) efforts of the phenomenally successful breeder and owner Harry Perks.

The breeder (via his Toorak Park Stud in South Australia) and part-owner of Southern Speed, Perks has provided much of the wind in Macdonald’s sail for many years (along with those of Mark Kavanagh) and his home breds include Gold Guru (three Group Ones), Devil Moon (Turnbull Stakes), Undoubtedly (Blue Diamond), Serious Speed (Thousand Guineas), Proprietor (The Galaxy), Majestic Music (dual Group Two winner), Shamoline Warrior (dual stakes winner) and Rebel Raider.

It’s worth pointing out that Perks’ success hasn’t been derived from simply patronising the leading stallions of the day … indeed the myriad sires utilised can only reflect an astuteness on Harry’s part that defies us mere mortals.

With only 12 runs under her belt, Southern Speed appears to have a long and profitable future – we can only hope that the respective trophy cabinets at Chez Macdonald and Perks will withstand the strain.

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Call us biased but the thoroughbred industry throws up more interesting ‘life’ stories than any other field of endeavour.

Sure, ours is a highway littered with broken dreams, but occasionally the end of the tunnel will bring you bright sunshine. Australian Racing Museum historian KEVIN GATES brings us the tale of a true Aussie battler in Harry Bamber and his wonder mare Rivette.

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Harry Bamber was the son of a blacksmith. After service with the Australian Light Horse during World War 1, he and his brother took up a soldier settlement block which they turned into a dairy farm. Their interest in racing persuaded them to buy the pony mare Riverside at auction, and with her they won the Ascot Thousand in 1924. Deciding to give the mare a chance against the thoroughbreds, the Bambers were obliged by the VRC to change her name to Riv.

The mare won a Purse at Sandown, and then returned to the pony tracks.

In 1928 Harry Bamber decided to leave the farm and try his hand as a professional trainer. The great depression hit him hard, and for a time he was reduced to milking cows to pay for agistment for Riv. In 1932 he set off for Flemington on Cup Day with a “bank” of 4 pounds. By the end of the day, with the help of a winning bet on Peter Pan, he had turned it into 40 pounds (quite a stash in those days). With this Harry was able to pay the service fee to mate Riv with the imported sire Ronsard. The result was a smallish bay filly named Rivette.

As a 3YO Rivette was a failure. As a 4YO she won several races, but after being set for the 1938 Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, she severed a leg artery while enjoying a roll in the sand at Mordialloc beach. The leg

required surgery and a long period of recuperation. For an outlay of five pounds, Bamber had backed the mare to win _15,000 by taking out the Cups double.

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November she again started favourite, and carried off the Melbourne Cup with similar ease. She thus became only the third horse, and the first mare, to win the Cups double.

1939 Melbourne Cup. Harry said he had far too much affection for the mare to see her burdened down by weight. Think about it … less than 10 years earlier

Harry Bamber recalls proudly that after the Melbourne Cup, the great trainer James Scobie came up to him and said: “I don’t know you, Mr Bamber, but I want to congratulate you on the condition of your horse. She could win the Melbourne Cup again if it was re-run next Saturday”.

In the words of Harry Bamber, Rivette “set me up for life”.

(Rivette won _14,000 for hero Harry and according to reports, should have won the Moonee Valley Cup that spring too, but missed the start and was still 20 lengths behind approaching the 1000m mark, eventually finishing third).

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the bloke has to milk cows to get by and now, with a very popular cash cow in his stable, he puts his mare above all other considerations. Harry, old son, they broke the mould.

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One of the recipients was the eight year old William Deane, pictured right, who not only developed a lifelong love of horse racing following Rivette’s triumph, but would also be appointed to the High Court of Australia and, from 1996 to 2001, become the 22nd Governor General of Australia.

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O CALL GARY WITH E FOR D a horse whisperer would be incorrect. He may well be fluent in the silent language of the horse, but the world for which he is preparing his young equine students is anything but quiet.

The shouts and cheerful banter of his team resound across the once peaceful farm, just like any racing yard or racecourse stable.

For the yearlings under his charge this is not just pre-school … it’s finishing school, too.

The old term of ‘breaking in’ really no longer applies, as Gary ‘starts’ these young horses by actually giving them the best possible start in life. It may only take three days, but they leave him fully equipped for their date with destiny, the life for which they were bred.

We are here at the private farm of top Irish trainer John Oxx, deep within the Curragh of Kildare, where 27 elite yearlings have been enjoying a peaceful and sheltered life since transferring from the studs of their birth. These are no ordinary yearlings – they are the blue bloods of His Highness the Aga Khan.

Many have never been fully handled, save for routine health checks: they were never destined for the sales ring and have been left alone to mature naturally in the equally secluded surroundings of their home paddocks. Others though have been bought in from the sales, still with hip numbers attached and, if anything, they’re harder work for Gary. He prefers to start with a blank canvas rather than one that has been handled, and possibly mishandled in the process: and one which may have learnt bad habits. >>

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There is a good reason why Gary and his team have been brought over to Kildare for a week from Gary’s farm in the south of England – few others can do what Gary does. It could be argued that traditional breaking methods are not stressful to yearlings either, as they gradually learn to be handled, backed and ridden over a period of six weeks or so. But it cannot be argued that Gary gets that job done within three days, with his yearlings backed and ridden in 10 minutes or less. If there is any stress involved, and certainly none is visible in the yearlings, then three days of it has got to be more beneficial to the horses than six weeks.

Today we are watching a group of yearling fillies as they complete their education and graduate for a life in the string at Currabeg, the famous yard once home to Sea The Stars and now to his equally well regarded younger brother, Born To Sea, both of whom went through Gary’s unique tuition. This morning the fillies are cantering and going through the starting stalls, as the loud banter is drowned out by the even louder cracks of heavily padded, air-cushioned racing whips. The noise might be deafening, but the whips themselves are harmless, as Gary demonstrates. We conduct our interview, strictly for the purposes of

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research mind, while Gary repeatedly strikes me with the regulation whip. The deal is, when it hurts, I shout STOP. In actual fact, it’s Gary who tires first, boredom more painful than the padded whips.

“It’s a steering wheel,” Gary explains, “it encourages them to go on and they respond to the pressure.” A horse will usually move away from pressure and the whip is an important aid in keeping them straight. In a race, the jockey will be using it to keep straight and safe; today the riders are simply teaching the fillies that there’s nothing to be afraid of. Whips are waved by their heads, struck across their quarters, tapped down their shoulders, all the while producing alarming ‘thwacks’ as padded leather slaps against padded leather.

The fillies go about their work without flicking an ear.

One, instantly dubbed ‘Miss Bondage’, actually seems to be enjoying it and visibly asking for more. “She’s loving it!” laughs rider Patrick Hills, an apprentice jockey spending time with Gary to improve his skills. Yes, Gary is a teacher, and not only of horses, but it’s the young horses themselves who will teach Patrick the most.

‘Miss Bondage’ illustrates the individual characteristics that will all go into making these either champion, or failed, racehorses.

Beautifully bred, she gives Patrick a nice feel, stamping herself as a racehorse of promise. He should know – his father is top jockey Richard, his grandfather top trainer Barry. Generations of experience course through his blood. The filly seems to know, too. She barges her way through her work mates as though they’re totally unimportant. ‘Miss Bondage’ has right of way at all times.

In marked contrast is a beautiful little Invincible Spirit filly, whose rider Katie Edwards also feels has potential. Even at this early stage the strength of their ‘engines’ is apparent.

No wonder trainers know when they have a good one, from day one. But unlike ‘Miss Bondage’, this filly has yet to recognise her own merit. She demurely steps aside to let others pass her, a reminder that horseracing can never be an exact science. Pedigree, conformation and talent are not the only ingredients and humans have control of only one of those essential parts.

The fillies are cantering together around a schooling ring, three clockwise, three anti-clockwise, learning to meet other horses head on.

It might not be something they’ll ever encounter again, but Gary likes to prepare for every eventuality. “A horse could fall in a race or one get loose on the gallops,” he points out, “and if they do meet a horse head on, it won’t worry them.” It definitely isn’t worrying them this morning, particularly not our little friend ‘Miss Bondage’ who deals with head on encounters as >> www.tracktotrack.com

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bullishly as any other type of encounter.

Even more bizarre is the sight of Gary’s son Craig standing upright on his filly. And I don’t mean standing upright in the stirrups. It’s a party piece often demonstrated by Zac Baker, too – the former rider actually standing on the saddle, in this case at a walk.

And no, it isn’t to train the fillies for yet another possible eventuality, such as a Frankie Dettori flying dismount! This is a very real piece of training, as Gary explains.

“We forget that horses are only ever used to dealing with us from up here,” he raises a hand to a horse’s head height. “Quite often, if a horse plays up in the starting stalls, the stalls handlers will climb up onto the frame to try to settle it.

That can be very unnerving for the horse, as well as the horses alongside. They’ve never seen anyone standing up above them before.” He grins. “These have.”

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YOU CAN TELL A COLT WHAT TO DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO ASK A FILLY. THEY’RE JUST THE SAME AS WOMEN!

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Maybe it’s not just a circus trick, but it still looks remarkable, particularly when you bear in mind these fillies hadn’t even had a saddle on until yesterday morning.

As they finish their work they are completing just 20 minutes of riding – ever.

Inclusive of a human standing on their back while weaving through work mates!

How on earth did they reach this stage of being so perfectly schooled?

The process begins in a round pen – an indoor lunge ring in this instance – when Gary meets his pupil for the first time. Wearing only a head collar, never having known more than that, the yearling is asked to canter round the ring. Gary watches and waits, for signs of submission. Very quickly the yearling asks to come in and accept Gary as a friend and, crucially, herd leader. Though it sounds too simple to be true, it’s from that moment on the yearling trusts Gary to do whatever he wishes. Gary demonstrates this by slipping on a bridle and long rein and away the yearling goes again, this time asked to canter round until it can demonstrate an understanding of basic commands. It turns to the left, turns to the right, comes to a stop and takes three steps back. It then accepts

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a saddle and is allowed to canter again, to get used to the feel of the saddle and the flapping of the stirrups.

To those watching, it seems as though the yearling has been doing this all its life. Then a rider is put up and away they go again.

Sometimes there’s a squeal and a buck, mainly through excitement. This is all new, all fun … one big adventure.

More often than not the yearling simply behaves like an old pro, a riding school hack with years of experience. And the clock hasn’t gone a quarter way round the hour yet. The quickest Gary has ever started a horse is seven minutes. The longest … 14 minutes. When the horse is happy, settled and obeying basic commands from its rider, it’s started. That’s preschool over. The next stage might be regarded as primary school, going outside to walk, trot and canter. As we are witnessing today, the final assignment is finishing school and graduation.

The perfectly educated young fillies leave the schooling ring and spend a few minutes walking through the starting stalls. The most noticeable thing is that they are all confident, happy and enjoying themselves. I said they completed their ‘work’, but for them it was just playtime: fun and stimulating. “It’s all

about keeping their brains working,” Gary explains, “it’s easy to see when they’re physically tired, but what I’m watching out for all the time is mental fatigue. When it stops being fun it’s time to give them a rest.”

If any of this, particularly reference to the whip, sounds remotely cruel, remember that even a yearling has a half-ton advantage over a man. No one can force a horse to do something it doesn’t want to, particularly not with cruelty and aggression. “You can tell a colt what to do,” Gary reminds us, “but you have to ask a filly. They’re just the same as women!” It all comes down to trust. The yearlings have put utter trust in their riders and are not afraid to do anything asked of them. Without fear they are confident and happy.

Which is why HH Aga Khan brings Gary over every year.

Unsaddled and washed down, the fillies return to their boxes. Tomorrow they will join the main string at Currabeg and will fit right in, unfazed by their new surroundings and lifestyle.

For Gary, the work continues, with another group of His Highness’ yearlings to ‘start’ for trainer Michael Halford, before moving on to clients in Barbados. No matter where in the world there are racehorses, there will always be a call for Gary.

For further information, visit www.garywitheford.co.uk

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Peta Oxenbridge and Grant McLaren take a colourful approach to thoroughbred breeding … and more than just in a literal sense.

Their Winning Colours Farm – situated at Rockley in NSW (some 200km west of Sydney) – is a rarity of sorts.

Yes, the pair share dreams similar to your garden variety breeder in that they would like to produce champion racehorses, but truth be known, their aim is to produce a multi-coloured Caviar, rather than a plain Black one.

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I N N I N G Colours Farm is r e p o r t e d ly the largest

thoroughbred farm in the world devoted to producing horses with the elusive frame overo gene: now, we could go on ad infinitum about what constitutes a frame overo horse … i.e. any solid base color (bay, black, chestnut, etc.) with white irregular patches added, usually with a horizontal orientation … marking are often jagged shaped … white rarely crosses the back … lower legs tend to be dark etc.

add some colour to your life as well.

While some may choose to scoff at such preponderance for colour – given that many studies have shown pigmentation has no bearing on speed (although red cars do go faster!) – Peta and Grant are not simply chasing rainbows.

They believe that breeding for colour is “in synergy with the ultimate responsibility of breed improvement” and that “temperament and performance must always take precedence over breeding for colour alone”.

BREEDING FOR COLOUR IS IN SYNERGY WITH THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY OF BREED IMPROVEMENT However, the accompanying pictures are, as they say in the classics, worth a thousand words and it’s now Winning Colours Farm’s life mission to

So, in its endeavour to ‘tick all the boxes’, Winning Colours now stands two stallions: the ASB decreed ‘chestnut’ Glacial Gold (looks grey >>

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to me!) and the ‘bay’, Apache Cat look-a-like, Profile in Style.

Importantly – or should we imperatively as far as Winning Colours is concerned – both stallions are outstanding, VERY flashy types and both hail from the land of stars and stripes.

What’s more, each has much to brag about in terms of heritage: Glacial Gold (standing at a fee of $4,950

with a live foal guarantee) hails from the family of Santa Anita Derby-G1 winner Muttering and offers a dynamic outcross for the largish population of Danehill, Mr Prospector mares.

That’s pretty much the case too for Profile in Style, which Winning Colours snapped up in 2007.

Bred on the same cross as Dubleo (Group Two winner standing at Vinery) and Urgun (Group One winner), Profile in Style’s granddam is a daughter of Secretariat.

The sireline needs very little explanation though as descendants of Halo have proven to be highly successful down under with More Than Ready being just one of his shining examples.

Anyway, why just stop with Apache Cat? You too can stand out from the crowd! Visit www.winningcoloursfarm. com.au and at the very least, sign up for Peta’s newsletters – they make for colourful reading.

Hooftnote: Admittedly rare, dilute and coloured thoroughbreds have been around since the inception of the breed, with the earliest documented ‘sightings’ dating back to the 15th century. Indeed, historian readily recall the deeds of the famous racehorse and sire The Tetrarch who was known as the “spotted wonder”.

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the MASTER R

ARELY HAS A BOOK been more aptly named. Few would argue that James Bartholomew Cummings reigns supreme as the trainer of a lifetime: thoroughly deserved of the Master designation.

And it’s hardly a brave call to state that what Bart has achieved in the past half century will never be surpassed.

Certainly you’ll have to dig me up to contradict.

Group One victories in every state of Australia, numerous championship titles and those magical 12 Melbourne Cups will ensure that only God can topple him from the perch.

Indeed – in terms of training winners of Australia’s greatest race – he’s seven clear of his near rival … a rival that departed this mortal coil over

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a decade before the nearly 84 years young Bart first saw the light of day.

To add even more perspective, he’s quinellaed the race as many times as anybody else has won it.

Since Bart lobbed on the scene as strapper for 1950

Melbourne Cup winner Comic Court, a trickle of news coverage has evolved into a flood, with the printed matter dedicated to this phenomenon’s deeds enough to decimate an Amazon rain forest.

Yet Bart is much more than a bloke with a unique ability to put gold on the mantelpiece.

His laconic wit has kept us entertained for six decades and the trials and tribulations along the way have only served to endear him to Joe Racing even more.

But for all the ink expended – including a biography penned two years ago – you wonder if the true essence of Bart Cummings has ever been truly captured.

BART AND LET'S ELOPE

And for that, they turned to another true Master in Les Carlyon.

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authorised biography and the tome falls “into the category of a memoir that is skewed, wherever possible, towards events that I was fortunate enough to witness first hand and people and horses I have come to know slightly. I have favoured the anecdotal over the statistical, on the grounds that the former often tells much about character and the latter can lead to narcosis”.

I’m stereotyping to be sure, but racing folk don’t read a lot of Proust or Dostoevsky and Homer’s Iliad was probably a sketch from the seventh season of the Simpsons.

But they will read Carlyon. He is the scribe of a generation – I once aspired to write like him, now I’d settle for a line. His words glide with the cadence of galloping hooves on a cool, crisp morning and as with those of unusual talent, his pearls of wisdom are not confined to the world of thoroughbreds.

Former editor of the Melbourne Age and editor-in-chief of the Herald & Weekly Times Group, Carlyon has won two Walkley Awards and is the author of non-fiction best sellers Gallipoli and The Great War. Carlyon first interviewed Bart Cummings back in 1974 – it was the year of Think Big …

Bart’s fourth Cup victory and, 12 months on, his fifth.

Carlyon stresses in the author’s note that it’s not an

And this is definitely not a book that any admirer of prowess or prose will use to cure their insomnia.

Right from the get go, we’re regaled with an insight to one of Bart’s greatest …

“So You Think began his spring odyssey at Caulfield racecourse in August when it wasn’t really spring at all and the winds still carried the sting of winter. The skies frowned and the occasional sunbursts were mere teases.

Not a stage for heroes.”

And he holds you to the very end: “On the opposite wall is the centerpiece of >>

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what sets him apart, makes him a freak and a folk hero and lots of other things that he can’t be bothered to think about.”

You may think that you already know everything you need to know about Bart Cummings.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands – myself included – have contributed to the tableaux but it will be Les Carlyon who shows you how the Master should be viewed.

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There is, however, no trophy for one of his achievements. It is not a race but a statistic. Since 1965 he has, on average, won the Melbourne Cup one year in four. That, above all else, is

have written much about Melbourne Cups, particularly the three Bart won when he was a young man on the rise and the three he won in the 1990s, when he was beset by financial troubles that would have crushed a lesser spirit. There is good reason for this.

Australia has produced a handful of great trainers, of which Cummings is obviously one.

What sets him apart, what elevates him to the highest place in the pantheon, is the simple fact that he has won 12 Melbourne Cups, which makes him as freakish as Bradman.

The Cup and Cummings – it is impossible to talk about the one without mentioning the other.

- Les Carlyon

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FRESHMEN Magic lineup of stallion newcomers for season opener ALAMOSA (NZ) Brown 2004, O’Reilly – Lodore Mystic by Centaine Stands: Wellfield Lodge, NZ. 2011 Fee: $NZ15,000 Covering Record: 101 [2009], 110 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Weanlings sold: 7 up to $44,000 4-time G1 winner (& 3 times G1 placed) … winning at elite level at 2, 3 & 4 years including track record in Otaki Maori-G1 and victory in MRC Toorak H-G1 at four.

Black type family.

ASTRONOMER ROYAL (USA) Bay 2004, Danzig – Sheepscot by Easy Goer Stands: Eliza Park, VIC. 2011 Fee: $8,800 Covering Record: 69 [2009], 69 [2010].

GCMM entries: 3 Weanlings sold: 25 up to $90,000 The final Classic winner of breeding immortal Danzig, Astronomer Royal won the Longchamp Poule d'Essai des Poulains-G1 and a Group event in Ireland. Strong family.

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AUTHORIZED (IRE) Bay 2004, Montjeu – Funsie by Saumarez Stands: Darley, NSW. 2011 Fee: $22,000 Covering Record: 79 [2009], 106 [2010].

GCMM entries: 2 Weanlings sold: 7 up to $34,000 Brilliant racehorse winning Epsom Derby-G1,York International S-G1 and Newbury Racing Post Trophy-G1 at 2 from just 7 starts. Outstanding European pedigree.

DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) Bay 2004, Danehill – Love Me True by Kingmambo Stands: Coolmore, NSW. 2011 Fee: $22,000 Covering Record: 120 [2009], 149 [2010].

GCMM entries: 9 Weanlings sold: 20 up to $150,000 Won at 2 and was multiple G1 placed at 3, but really blossomed at 4 with 5 G1 victories (2100m-2400m) from 7 outings inc. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II & Prince of Wales. Hails from a highly successful stallion family.

EAVESDROPPER (USA) Bay 2000, Kingmambo – Weekend Surprise by Secretariat Stands: Emirates Park, NSW. 2011 Fee: $5,500 Covering Record: 69 [2009], 82 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Weanlings sold: 6 up to $8,000 Not quite in the same league on the racetrack as his close relation Duke of Marmalade but was a stakes winner in North America at 4 (over 1200m). Kingmambo is also hot property as a sire of sires.

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EXCEEDINGLY GOOD Bay 2005, Exceed And Excel – Common Smytzer by Snippets Stands: Secret Hill Thoroughbreds, QLD. 2011 Fee: $6,600 Covering Record: 76 [2009], 56 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Weanlings sold: 2 up to $29,000 Lightning fast 2YO – winning 2 from 4 (inc.VRC Maribyrnong Plate-G3) and 2nd in the Blue Diamond Prelude-G3, before training on to be SP at 3. Sire is probably premier source of 2YOs in this country.

HENRYTHENAVIGATOR (USA) Bay 2005, Kingmambo – Sequoyah by Sadler’s Wells Stands: Coolmore, NSW. 2011 Fee: $27,500 Covering Record: 144 [2009], 126 [2010].

GCMM entries: 10 Weanlings sold: 10 up to $150,000 Hugely popular at first two seasons at stud and little wonder why: a G2 winner at 2 (and G1 placed), he won 4 G1s at 3 inc. 2000 Guineas, St James’s Palace Stakes and Irish 2000 Guineas. Fantastic pedigree to boot.

KAPHERO Bay 2003, Danzero – Kapchat by Centaine Stands: Swettenham Stud, VIC. 2011 Fee: $7,000 Covering Record: 75 [2009], 97 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Weanlings sold: 5 up to $31,000 Terrific prospect … a very precocious 2YO, Kaphero won the Blue Diamond Preview and SA Magic Millions at 2 before training on to Ian McEwan Trophy-G3. By proven sire of 2YOs and from the immediate family of Golden Slipper winner Courtza (dam of Champion Sire O’Reilly). www.tracktotrack.com

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KHELEYF (USA) Bay/Brown 2001, Green Desert – Society Lady by Mr Prospector Stood: Darley, NSW. 2009 .

2011 Fee: $27,500 Covering Record: 66 [2009].

GCMM entries: 10 Weanlings sold: 10 up to $12,000 Only served the one season down under but is the leading sire of 2YO winners in Britain since 2008 with the likes of G1 winner Vladimir and speedy Stonefield Flyer; well over 100 juvenile winners from first 4 crops in UK. Family of Encosta de Lago, Flying Spur etc.

MURTAJILL Grey/Brown 2004, Rock of Gibraltar – Skating by At Talaq Stands: Patinack Farm, NSW. 2011 Fee: $16,500 Covering Record: 122 [2009], 105 [2010].

GCMM entries: 4 Weanlings sold: 5 up to $7,500 Brilliant 2YO who won Breeders’ Plate-LR on debut then Skyline S-G3 before 4th in Golden Slipper; twice Group One placed at 3 and GP at 4, retiring with over 600k in stakes. _ brother to G1 producing sire Bradbury’s Luck from multiple G1 winning mare Skating.

MUTAWAAJID Bay 2003, Redoute’s Choice – Elated Lady by Vain Stands: Emirates Park, NSW. 2011 Fee: $7,700 Covering Record: 97 [2009], 96 [2010].

GCMM entries: 4 Weanlings sold: 13 up to $16,000 Unbeaten at 2 but really came into his own at 3 with victories in the Royal Sovereign-G2 and Hobartville S-G2.

Dam has produced 8 winners from 8 to race inc. 3-time GW Addewin, juvenile G2 winner Fatoon and Melbourne SW Jivago. www.tracktotrack.com

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MYBOYCHARLIE (IRE) Bay 2005, Danetime – Dulceata by Rousillon Stands: Vinery Stud, NSW. 2011 Fee: $8,800 Covering Record: 94 [2009], 111 [2010].

GCMM entries: 13 Weanlings sold: 21 up to $50,000 Group One winner at 2 (Deauville Prix Morny) and G1 placed; winner at 3. By Danehill’s underrated Champion 2YO Sire of UK and hails from the family of G1 winner Snowland and promising sire Snippetson.

NEW APPROACH (IRE) Chestnut 2005, Galileo – Park Express by Ahonoora Stands: Darley, NSW. 2011 Fee: $33,000 Covering Record: 72 [2009], 72 [2010].

GCMM entries: 4 Weanlings sold: 13 up to $85,000 Fantastic performer with 8 wins – 7 at stakes level – and 3 stakes placings from his only starts. Dual G1 winner at 2 inc. Newmarket Dewhurst Stakes before going on to take out the Epsom Derby and both the Newmarket and Irish Champion Stakes. Dazzling black type family.

NORTHERN METEOR Bay 2005, Encosta de Lago – Explosive by Fappiano Stands: Widden Stud, NSW. 2011 Fee: $27,500 Covering Record: 144 [2009], 126 [2010]. .

GCMM entries: 41 Weanlings sold: 25 up to $90,000 Only raced at 3 but certainly left his mark with victories in the Ascot Vale-G1 and Brian Crowley S-LR, along with 2nd in TJ Smith-G1. Dam has produced 6 winners from 6 to race inc. multiple GW Queen of the Hill. Family of Thatch 54

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REAAN Bay/Brown 2005, Hussonet – Ribe by Danehill Stands: Cornerstone Stud, SA. 2011 Fee: $9,900 Covering Record: 60 [2009], 56 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Weanlings sold: 2 up to $30,000 Precocious in every way, Reaan followed up a 2nd in the Maribyrnong Plate-G3 with a Blue Diamond-G1 victory in the autumn. Should be very popular on the Gold Coast given that his dam is a multiple GW daughter of Danehill.

REAL SAGA Bay 2006, Tale of the Cat – Windy Kate by Air Express Stands: Glenlogan Park, QLD. 2011 Fee: $15,400 Covering Record: 144 [2009], 146 [2010].

GCMM entries: 20 Weanlings sold: 6 up to $19,000 Very popular in Queensland since retiring to stud and little wonder … winner of the Breeders’ PlateLR on debut, he followed up with a 2nd in the Blue Diamond-G1, victory in the STC Todman Slipper-G2 and a 4th in the Golden Slipper-G1. Dam is a _ sister to multiple GW Another Warrior.

SEBRING Chestnut 2005, More Than Ready – Purespeed by Flying Spur Stands: Widden Stud, NSW. 2011 Fee: $38,500 Covering Record: 190 [2009], 149 [2010].

GCMM entries: 34 Weanlings sold: 5 up to $90,000 Could steal the show! Sold in the Gold Coast ring, Sebring only raced at 2 but won 5 from 6 – inc. the Golden Slipper-G1 and AJC Sires’ Produce-G1 – and finished 2nd in the AJC Champagne S-G1. Speed family throughout. www.tracktotrack.com

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SHARKBITE Brown 2003, Redoute’s Choice – Back Pass by Quest For Fame Stands: Eliza Park, VIC. 2011 Fee: $5,500 Covering Record: 71 [2009], 130 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Weanlings sold: 5 up to $40,000 Won only 2 outings at 2 and was multiple SP at 3 before capturing the Lord Stakes-LR at Caulfield as a 4YO.What about the pedigree though … by Redoute’s Choice from one of the best families in the world including Champion Broodmare Hasili, leading sire Dansili and Leroidesanimaux (sire of 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom).

STREET BOSS (USA) Chestnut 2004, Street Cry – Blushing Ogygian by Ogygian Stands: Darley, VIC. 2011 Fee: $13,750 Covering Record: 72 [2009].

GCMM entries: 2 Weanlings sold: 3 up to $28,000 Difficult to overlook this stallion’s propsects – a winner at 3 (albeit sparingly raced) – he was twice successful at G1 level over 6f (1200m) and 7f (1400m) in California and also ran 3rd in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint-G1. By the phenomenal Street Cry, he has a first class pedigree.

TEOFILO (IRE) Bay 2004, Galileo – Speirbhan by Danehill Stands: Darley, NSW. 2011 Fee: $22,000 Covering Record: 97 [2009], 119 [2010].

GCMM entries: 8 Weanlings sold: 8 up to $45,000 Although only racing on 5 occasions – all of them at 2 – the Darley stallion was unbeaten with highlights including the Dewhurst Stakes-G1 and Curragh National-G1. By Galileo (sire of world champion Frankel), this is a solid European/North American family.

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WAR PASS (USA) Bay/Brown 2005 (died 2010), Cherokee Run – Vue by Mr Prospector Stands: Widden Stud, NSW. Covering Record: 95 [2009], 70 [2010].

GCMM entries: 14 Weanlings sold: 9 up to $27,000 A very sad loss for Widden with the passing of this undefeated Champion 2YO on Xmas Eve last year.War Pass was the highest raced winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1 in the race’s history and boasted an average winning margin of over 5 lengths. By the Blushing Groom line sire Cherokee Run,War Pass is a _ brother to G1 winning 2YO Oath.

WHERE’S THAT TIGER (USA) Chestnut 2003, Storm Cat – Blissful by Mr Prospector Stands: Evergreen Stud, NSW. 2011 Fee: $4,400 Covering Record: 144 [2009], 126 [2010].

GCMM entries: 1 Despite being a winner and GP at 2,Where’s That Tiger can’t quite match it stride for stride with some of his peers, but in terms of pedigree and conformation … well, he’s certainly been very popular. A son of the world champion sire and sire of sires Storm Cat,Where’s That Tiger is from a sister to Fusaichi Pegasus and closely related to Preakness Stakes-G1 winner Pine Bluff – all for $4,400!

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