New sires

[Dot]

No he isn't Richard but the press release isn't wrong, his progeny will be eligible for those schemes if the "conditions apply" criteria are met. It's no different for other stallions standing outside NSW and similar is frequently written in their press releases too.

Breeders challenge is a mare based scheme that replaced the sires stakes some years ago. HRNSW has in part reintroduced the sires stakes in a fashion with the breeders challenge blue series and if you/they want more support for sires standing in NSW then this is the series that needs further support and funding.

Remove the colonial stallion rebate which to me appears to support the colonial stallion owners seting higher fees, encourage them to lower their service fee accordingly, and put the $500 rebate for each foal by a colonial sire into prizemoney for the breeders challenge blue series would be my suggestion.

[alphastud]

The press release can be misleading Dot.

If it’s not a mistake, then this style of marketing can be misleading whether it be commonplace or not.

No condition can apply for a stallion to make progeny NSW bred unless they are a NSW stallion.

NSW stallions such as TINTIN IN AMERICA, SMILING SHARD, LIVE OR DIE etc. make any progeny NSW bred. No conditions need to apply for this to happen. There is a real difference. NSW stallions can influence whether a foal is NSW bred or not. Huntsville and other interstate stallions can’t.

And so that stating that “his progeny will be …. NSW Breeders Challenge , … eligible – conditions apply” can be misleading.

He cannot make Vic based, Qld based etc. progeny NSW bred whereas the NSW Stallions can.

I find the various schemes and rules confusing and think that it’s important to be clearer where we can be.