Auckland Reactor - Redemption

[admin]

Thought by now H'link management would have given us some feed back.

I'll check with the higher ups and let you guys know.

[kilcoyne]

The story I got from the stud was that the new owners only wanted him to race and they weren't interested in a stud career. My mare was due to be served by him 24 hours after he was pulled. He had not been doing any work while at SS and was in fact getting well feed and piling on the weight. The soft palate op he had would require an 6-8 week break to recover then a gradual work up to get the weight off before any real hard work so cant see much chance of an interdom win at chch, maybe Perth in 2012 would be a better bet.
Cant see that the stud fee has much bearing on the supposed lack of support from breeders. Changeover stands at the same price and he had a full book within weeks of going to stud and his record is no better that AR's.
Anyway I'm pleased with the replacement stallion I got and now waiting eagerly for the test results to come back

[mango]

Hi Kilcoyn
When you talk about new owners has he been purchased by some new people lately. The breeders support for Changeover compared to Auckland Reactor would be due to a few reasons, Changeover is available in Australia A.R is not, Changeover come over here and beat the best A.R did not, i'm a A.R fan and the only way i see him making it at stud would be for him to race again and hopefully get back to his best and also come over here and prove some people wrong. Now if he was to do that and then also be available to Australian breeders well maybe he's book will fill like Changeover but untill that happens his book will never fill and it will take along time if ever to get there purchase price back.

[kilcoyne]

Hi Kilcoyn
When you talk about new owners has he been purchased by some new people lately. The breeders support for Changeover compared to Auckland Reactor would be due to a few reasons, Changeover is available in Australia A.R is not, Changeover come over here and beat the best A.R did not, i'm a A.R fan and the only way i see him making it at stud would be for him to race again and hopefully get back to his best and also come over here and prove some people wrong. Now if he was to do that and then also be available to Australian breeders well maybe he's book will fill like Changeover but untill that happens his book will never fill and it will take along time if ever to get there purchase price back.

As I understand it he has been purchased by a syndicate made up of SOME of the original owners with some NEW Blood from Aussie joining in. Look forward to the article that John C is talking about so we will all get some clarity about the situation as he is the syndicate manager(I understand) and will have the correct story and not something that has come to us second hand.