Sharkbite – Top Quality at a Value Price



Hunter Valley based Byerley Stud owner Martin Hawcroft has not launched a new stallion since Victoria Derby winner and proven Group One producer Nothin’ Leica Dane retired in 1998 and the horse that has persuaded him back into the stallion business is blue-blooded Redoute’s Choice stakes-winner Sharkbite.

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For those of you who are regular visitors to Breednet you will notice something missing in the next few weeks and that would be me - the Breednet Editor – she is going abroad, leaving Australia for the first time in ten years! Yes, ten years! When you have to renew a passport and find you've been nowhere in 10 years, you ask yourself why and I shall tell you.

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With all of our commercial Australasian yearling sales for 2009 now done and dusted the auction houses will already be thinking ahead to 2010 and canvassing for entries for what promises to be an interesting year as a result of EI.

When EI hit in 2007 a great many mating plans were thrown out the window as stallions either failed to arrive, were whisked away early or started late and in some cases struggled with the catch up workload.

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QUIZ

1/ Za Magic won the Listed Sunshine Cast Guineas by more than four lenghts last Saturday, who is his sire?

2/ Encosta de Lago is the sire of an Aussie bred three year-old colt who won the Group Two Gold Circle Derby last weekend in South Africa, what is his name?

3/ Fastnet Rock sired an impressive two year-old winner in Hong Kong last weekend, what is his name?

4/ Outstanding sire of stayers Montjeu added another Derby winner to his tally in Ireland last weekend, can you name the winner of the Irish Derby?

5/ Baerami Thoroughbreds announced a new stallion last week, a dual Group One winner by Rock of Gibraltar, what is his name?

Answers are at the bottom of this page .