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LYNDHURST STUD FARM Andrew Reichard
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f we had an Australian Racing Dictionary then Lyndhurst Stud Farm would surely have a one word definition – “winners.” Based at Warwick on Queensland’s fertile Darling Downs, Lyndhurst has been sending winners to Australian racetracks for over a century. Since its purchase in 1956 by the brothers Percy and Ted Kruger it has frequently been home to the leading winner producing sire in Australia starting with the Krugers’ magnificent grey foundation sire Smokey Eyes by Star Kingdom who held that title for a decade. Next generation son Merrell Kruger was one of the founding co-owners of the Magic Millions sales and race business, and it is his sons Jeff and Griff Kruger who own and operate Lyndhurst today.
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Lyndhurst means winners
Jeff Kruger takes up the story, “Lyndhurst is a great property, and apart from producing large numbers of sheer winners we’ve always had a top sire or two here, from Smokey Eyes through the first son of Northern Dancer, Grand Chaudiere, sire of the dam of Snippets, through Head Over Heels, Hail To Success, Sequalo and our current superstar Better Than Ready. He is something special, right at the top of the tree every season so far and there’s even more to come from him now that his talent is appreciated and he’s getting better mares.
the ASB made it compulsory and we were also the first farm in Australia to monitor broodmares close to and during foaling using closed circuit television with infrared. We’ve had great news about the border openings so I’m looking forward to taking our eleven yearlings to the Magic Millions in January. We’ve got four in Book One and seven in Book Two, they’re all by the best proven sires in the country including four by Better Than Ready. Griff and I can’t wait to present them to potential buyers, we both think that although the numbers aren’t huge, our draft is big on quality.”
We are also very proud of the fact that at Lyndhurst we were the first farm in Australia to bloodtype foals for parentage validation, before
The Lyndhurst Stud draft will be based in barns QA and QB and will enter the ring in the following order.