QUEENSLAND breeding history has been made this year with the appearance for the first time in an Australian thoroughbred stallion register of a white stallion.
Truly named PURE WHITE is one of three sires based at the Kelly family's long established Royston Stud, located in the Innisplain Valley along with Glenlogan Park and Sun Stud.
His qualifications, pedigree and photograph are among 49 in the Queensland Thoroughbred Breeders 2016 edition of their Stallion Register.
Priced at $4,400, the Australian bred Pure
White starts his career at Royston this year alongside another newcomer in
PRINCE CHERI (FR) (Lando (Ger) – Princess Cheri (Ger), by Mondrian (Ger), a
winner France (two starts), Group 3 winner, Goup1 performed Australia, fee
$6,600, and proven sire of stakes winners LONGHORN (Danehill – Fitting, by
Marscay) fee $4,400.
The appearance of Pure White (pictured) at stud follows the enterprise of the founders of the Winning Colours Farm at Rockley, near Bathurst in importing coloured thoroughbreds from America. A foundation sire has been PROFILE IN STYLE, 'a world class and performance coloured thoroughbred stallion'.
A bay bred in America in 2006, Profile In Style appears to the first ever frame overo thoroughbred to come to Australia. By Ellusive Quest, a bay with a lot of white by a son of the influential Halo and from a mare by the Secretariat sire Shantariat.
So far Profile In Style has had 64 foals registered by the Australian Thoroughbred Stud Book.Three are white, including Pure White (2011) and a younger brother born 2013. They are from Laughyoumay, a white daughter of Sky Chase (won Champagne Stakes, Rosehill Guineas, Gloaming Stakes, Chelmsford Stakes and Caulfield Stakes) and from Harrisburg, a stakes placed daughter of Diagramatic (USA). - Brian Russell Media
