Progressive Queensland based farm Racetree will head to Magic Millions in 2009 with a terrific draft of 16 yearlings to be offered in Sessions One to Five including three from the first Australian crop of their well credentialed sire Greenwood Lake (USA)
“Greenwood Lake has a lot to like about him and as a three-quarter brother to a household name like Success Express, his yearlings are well worth consideration,” said Racetree principal, Kevin Dixon.
This is a part of our ongoing series of articles leading up to the 2009 Magic Millions Yearling Sale where we will attempt to highlight five yearlings each week that ON PAPER at least, appeal as being suitable for a specific goal or are bred to a specific requirement and this week we’re looking at the ‘double Danzigs’.
Given the dominance of the Danzig sireline in Australia it’s not surprising that more and more yearlings are popping up that are inbred to this most influential son of Northern Dancer.
Fiction in Australia according to Studbook Keeper Michael Ford, but fact in North America where two year-old filly Splash of Vanilla will be a novelty when offered at the 2008 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale.
The palomino colouring - cream to gold coat and white mane – is not something we see in Australian thoroughbreds, although they do apparently exist.
1/ Dane Shadow posted his first winner in the $200,000 Strawberry Hill MM Prelude at Randwick on Boxing Day, what is the winner’s name?
2/ Exceed and Excel had his tenth stakes-winner with a juvenile filly that won the Listed MVRC St Albans Stakes last week, what is her name?
3/Ready to Lift, winner of the Christmas / Summer Cup double is from On the Rise, who was 20 when Ready to Lift was born, true or false?
4/ Unbeaten filly Paprika is by which popular stallion who won the Magic Millions Two Year Old Classic in 1997?
5/ Another unbeaten two year-old filly Indian Ocean has a three-quarter sister catalogued for Magic Millions as Lot 361, who is the sire of this filly?
