BLOODLINES
a high-class racehorse, who is to say that any one approach is correct. If it was that easy, wonderful horses such as Vo Rogue, Bonecrusher and Miss Andretti would never have bucked the odds and every million-dollar yearling would be a champion. It is now commonly accepted that if a horse is to perform to its optimum on the track that it is just as important for it to be mentally content and happy as it is for it to be physically fit and sound. With that in mind, why would it be any less important for a broodmare to be mentally happy and in a comfortable familiar environment in order for her pass on to her progeny the best of her genes? Peggie’s Bid has a yearling fi lly by Ihtiram, and a weanling colt by the stallion. She is not in foal after missing to Husson Lightning (B h 2004, Hussonet (USA)Snip Snip, by Snippets), in the 2008 season. Husson Lightning, winner of the Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate (1000m, Flemington) stood at Heytesbury Stud at a fee of only $6600.
BIRTH DATE
COLOUR
SEX
2009
NAME
SIRE
missed
Husson Lightning
2008
12/11
b or br
colt
to be named
Ihtiram (IRE)
2007
24/10
b or br
filly
to be named
Ihtiram (IRE)
2006
12/10
b
filly
Peggie’s Pride
Ihtiram (IRE)
2005
15/09
b or br
filly
Peggie’s Business
Key Business
missed
Stormy’s Son
2004 2003
16/09
ch
gelding
Danny Beau
Zedrich (AUS)
2002
25/08
b
gelding
Charlie Beau
Ihtiram (IRE)
2001
12/08
b
filly
Miss Andretti
Ihtiram (IRE)
68 THE THOROUGHBRED
YARRAMAN’S ATHLETE BRINGS $750,000
IN THE RING: Alinghi’s half-brother at the Easter sale
One yearling goes to work, another’s sale preparation goes without a hitch. WORDS DANNY POWER.
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PEGGIE’S BID’S STUD RECORD YEAR
CATCHING UP
PHOTO BRUNO CANNATELLI
we’d been offered that, I might have let her go. In the end, though, the prospect of racing her ourselves was too exciting. “I don’t believe in pushing them as young horses, so we’re just taking her along slowly and she’s already been in and out of work with Bruce Watkins (at Bunbury) on several occasions. This time in, she’s been in work for seven weeks, so hopefully with a bit of luck she might get to a trial. “It’s doubtful that she’ll get to the races in this preparation but I’ll leave it up to Bruce as he’ll know when she’s ready and we’re not in any hurry.” While some would ridicule Beauglehole’s perceived simplistic approach to breeding with Peggie’s Bid, there is no guarantee that, if she was moved away from her familiar environment and sent to a more expensive “superior stallion”, she would improve on her already imposing record at stud. The widely accepted adage in thoroughbred breeding is to breed to the best and hope for the best, but, given the many vagaries involved in breeding
n the Summer edition of The Thoroughbred, we looked at the preparation of two valuable yearlings from the Yarraman Park draft for the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney. The two colts were a bay by Fastnet Rock from Snippets’ Lass (by Snippets), a three-quarter brother to top galloper Snitzel, and a scopey half-brother to champion filly Alinghi, by Redoute’s Choice from Oceanfast (by Monde Bleu). The Fastnet Rock colt didn’t make it to the sale after his owner, South African Francois Naude, decided to race the youngster. “He had lost the mare (dam Snippets’ Lass died in September 2007), so he decided to keep him,” said
Yarraman Park’s Harry Mitchell. Naude gave the colt to Snitzel’s former trainer Gerald Ryan, and the precocious youngster has already been broken in and completed his first preparation with Ryan at Rosehill. The Redoute’s Choice colt’s sale preparation went without incident. The athletic youngster was lighter framed that the powerful Encosta De Lago half-brother that sold for $2.2 million in 2008 to Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm – since named Shoot Through and unplaced in his one start for trainer Mick Price. The 2009 colt sold for $750,000 to the bid of John Ferguson, acting for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Darley Australia. “He’s not an early colt, but he was an athlete – $750,000 was a good price in this market,” Mitchell said. The colt will be trained by either Peter Snowden or Lee Freedman.