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09-11-2008 06:29 PM |
Found it !!!
US Market Offer's Diversity Submited On:9/1/2008Posted On:9/1/2008 Author:Tara Madgwick
There is no escaping a certain sameness to Australian yearling sale catalogues, there’s Redoute’s Choice, there’s Encosta de Lago, there is this son of Danehill and that son of Danehill, but what about those investors looking for something else?
The Keeneland September Yearling Sale kicks off on September 8 with the first of 5,555 lots and you know what, not one of them are by Redoute’s Choice or Encosta de Lago!
While it’s great to have two such dominant stallions standing in Australia, it does make it hard to get away from them and with so many breeders now finding themselves going around in circles to an extent, a trip to Kentucky can open the eyes to other sires and other female families that may enhance what we have here at home.
While the European scene is very much dominated by Northern Dancer and his sire sons Danzig and Sadler’s Wells as we see here in Australia, the pattern in North America is very different.
In North America there were 33 stallions standing at a fee of $US50,000 or more in 2008 as compared to Australia where there are just 17.
Of those 17 Australian based sires that stand for $50,000 and upwards, seven of them are Danehill line horses and of the 33 elite sires in North America, none of them are Danehill line horses – so there is your reason to go to Keeneland and at least have a look to see what’s on offer.
Imported female families are hot commercial property in Australia, just take a look at sales conducted in the past month.
Top price of $1,050,000 at the Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale in Victoria was Group Three placed mare Danevade, a Danehill mare from an imported daughter of Machiavellian in Subterfuge (GB), a half-sister to two European stakes-winners.
Top price of $1.3 million at the Magic Millions Thoroughbred Sale on the Gold Coast was To Be Surprised, a Redoute’s Choice mare from Patrona (USA), a half-sister to three US stakes-winners by Lomond.
Both Subterfuge and Patrona are examples of what Australian breeders need to find overseas, well-bred fillies with outcross pedigrees to make the most of what we have here at home.
Patrona produced dual Group One winner and hot young sire Exceed and Excel from a mating to Danehill, while Subterfuge is the dam of HK Group One winner Scintillation and multiple Group Two winner Shania Dane from coverings to the same sire.
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