2010/11 Season in Review
Nevele R’s stallions continued to do the job on the track in the 2010-11 season with them producing 31 individual Australasian Group and Listed winners, including the likes of Inter Dominion Champ I Can Doosit, Grand Circuit winners Washakie and Let Me Thru and multiple Group 1 winners The Bohemian and De Lovely.
Live Or Die was again prolific in the Group and Listed winners department with him producing eight individual black type race winners in 10/11 ranging from top juveniles, such as the Group 2 Tatlow Stakes winning pair Scandalman and The Good Times, through to the open class pacers Power Of Tara, Bold Cruiser, Our Malabar and Tanabi Bromac. San Fran Lady and Stirling Charmer also took out Group 3 level races.
Live Or Die sired almost 250 NZ and Australian winners in the season just completed with his progeny earning more than $4 million in stakes-money.
As per usual popular sire Badlands Hanover had another strong season with his flag bearer again the outstanding Grand Circuit winner Washakie who surpassed $1 million in career earnings in 2011 and set what was at the time an Australasian mile record of 1:50.5 when winning the Cordina Chicken Sprint in November. The brilliant pacer also recorded back to back wins in the Group 1 Treuer Memorial. Outstanding mares Beaudiene Bad Babe and Nearea Franco again claimed Group Race victories, whilst the former kiwis Move Over, Talaspring and Our Hillview Gold all won at Group or Listed level in Australia, with the later winning three Listed and 11 races in total in 10-11.
Successful young stallion McArdle was the source of plenty of winners throughout the season with 100 individual winners in NZ and Australia including the talented juveniles Monaghan (Sapling Stakes) and Marquess De Posh (NSW Pink Bonnet). The NSW Derby heat winning R Eleven also impressed in winning seven of his nine starts and taking a best mile-rate of 1:55.7. Other multiple winners by McArdle to catch the eye in 10-11 included Franco Ledger (the winner of 7), Mighty McDana (7), Our High Octane (7), Toulouse Lautrec (8), Smile With Me (7) and the very quick Seshny Bromac (1:53.9).
Little Brown Jug winner P-Forty Seven’s first commercial sized crop of 2yo’s impressed with the stallion siring six individual 2yo winners, four in 2:00, and three of them Group Race runners-up including the smart Australian bred gelding Forty Seven Flash, winner of five of his six starts to date and runner-up in the recent Group 2 Southern Cross Final, as well as NZ Sires Stakes heat winner Glenferrie Magic (twice Group/Listed placed from 3 starts) and runner up in the Group 2 WA Champagne Classic Itz Darknstormy. The Queensland based 3yo Sevenfortyseven also enjoyed a profitable season, winning eight and placing at Group 2 level.
Falcon Seelster enjoyed a successful last season for Nevele R, siring the multiple Group 1 winner De Lovely and the WA Derby winner Seel N Print, along with minor Group and Listed Race winners Nicky’s Falcon and Montana Falcon.
Resident trotting stallion Continentalman again produced a standout 3yo in the form of ex-kiwi square-gaiter The Bohemian, who claimed the G1 Victoria Trotters Derby, G1 NSW Trotters Derby and Group 3 Holmfield Stakes in a stellar season. In NZ, Jaccka Jack continued to win more than his fair share of trotting races with the 5yo taking out five races throughout the season, while Chocolate Brownie surpassed $100,000 in stakes-earnings with three wins.
All up Continentalman was the sire of 54 Australasian winners in the 2010-11 season, with his progeny earning over $660,000.
Frozen semen trotting sire Muscles Yankee had yet another phenomenal season of results and can arguably claim to have the best two trotters in Australasia with I Can Doosit and Let Me Thru finishing first and second respectively in the Inter Dominion Grand Final and the pair taking out a further three Group 1 races between them – I Can Doosit the Rowe Cup and Let Me Thru the Australasian Trotting Championship and the Dullard Cup.
Another son of Muscles Yankee in Down Under Muscles also claimed two Group 3 Australian races in 2010.
CR Commando also produced some smart trotters in 2010-11 with Sassy Pinevale a rising star on the Australian trotting scene after winning more than $85,000 in prize-money during 2010 and 11 and taking out the Group 2 Cranbourne Trotters Cup and Group 3 Knight Pistol Cup. In NZ CR Commando sired the Group 3 NZ Trotting Oaks winner Commander Jewel.
The Australian based Red River Hanover sired a number of talented performers on either side of the Tasman with River Field one of the better 4yo’s in NZ, winning five races, and closing in on $100,000 in lifetime earnings, and in Australia the Group 1 performers Runaway Red and Garnet River approaching $300,000 in lifetime earnings and setting career best times of 1:53.9 and 1:54.8 respectively.
NZ’s highest ever stakes-earning entire, and the winner of 19 Group and Listed races, Changeover proved exceedingly popular with breeders in his first season at stud serving over 260 mares and we look forward to seeing his first foals in the coming months.
The 2011-12 season sees us welcome the speedster Tintin In America to our stallion ranks. Tintin In America was a Group One winner at 2, 3 and 4 years of age, winning five Group 1 races in total, including two Harness Jewels and an Australasian Breeders Crown Final.
Tintin In America displayed blistering speed throughout his career, setting four NZ records during his three seasons of racing, including a NZ male pacers record of 1:53.2 as a 3yo and is already attracting plenty of interest from prospective breeders.
