Take him down to Tassie you might get a few locals interested. And some might even send their mares to him as well.Originally Posted by Triple V
After extensive off-season discussions with my business partners Trevor Swan & Dennis Lyle, I can now confirm that Guido, the heavily linebred to Glen Almahurst son of siring legend Whacko The Chook & the great producing mare, Baby Take Ya Teeth Out, will be standing for the same fee as last season.
That's a bit harsh Breno. Guido's a long time project of mine, he originally appeared as a foil to some of the ridiculously overblown Sire adverts that were put about, especially so here in NSW.
On the other hand, Tasmania has a long history of producing top class racehorses and from the mid to late 1990's onwards we've had a lot of success with Tassie maternal families in particular. The colt in my avatar there to the left...he's from just such a family. Some of the best horsemen and women I've ever met come from Tasmania.
Here in NSW, things have changed immeasurably in recent times however without doubt and very much to its eternal shame, this State holds the undisputed record for importing more half arsed, half baked, genetic trash sires to stand stud than any other State in this Nation or New Zealand.
There was a time when things had gotten so bad here that it appeared NSW Studmasters had individually & collectively all but destroyed the once all conquering NSW Broodmare Band...and only for the sake of a small but dedicated band of NSW based breeders who religiously sent their mares both Interstate and over to NZ to be bred to better quality sires than were available to them here at home, the NSW Broodmare Band would have been wiped out all together.
The best thing that has ever happened in my lifetime was the cessation of the NSW Sires Stakes program & the move to a Mares Based System. The NSW Sires Stakes was a quite foolishly conceived system that presided over and supported years and years of breed destroying abject mediocrity, the quite deplorable likes of which I hope we will never...ever....see again.
Last edited by Triple V; 06-27-2012 at 11:14 PM. Reason: spelling
Hey Triple
With the price's of service fee's at the present time, if you price Guido right you and your partner's might make a $ or 2 lmao.
Hey Dallas,
I forgot to mention that Guido's 2nd dam is by the late Barry Rose's incomparable gift to the Australian Breeding Industry, a wonderful stallion who's name...even to this very day...is spoken in reverent tones by many a Hunter Valley based Standardbred Breeder, the great Forrest Trillium. If that fact alone doesn't get you in, nothing will.
Is there any chance that Guido carries the blood of another imported gem that stood in the Bathurst area, Burley Guy? If his third or fourth dam happened to be by BG, then that pedigree becomes one of monumental import in highlighting the immense value that these importers added to the local breeding scene!!!Hey Dallas,
I forgot to mention that Guido's 2nd dam is by the late Barry Rose's incomparable gift to the Australian Breeding Industry, a wonderful stallion who's name...even to this very day...is spoken in reverent tones by many a Hunter Valley based Standardbred Breeder, the great Forrest Trillium. If that fact alone doesn't get you in, nothing will.
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[VVV] Unfortunately, no Phil. As the story goes, that oustanding 1970 foaled son of Bret Hanover and Rilda Guy was suffering from a case of Founder the day that they showed up with the mare to be trailer bred, so it was back on the float and off to Scone and to Forrest Trillium she went. The rest, as they say, is history.
In all seriousness, I've never heard of that horse. Who's paddock did he darken?
He stood at Rossmore Park, run by Richard Webster and his sons, just out of Bathurst on the Limekilns Road. It was the old Army Camp used in WWII and afterwards as a Migrant Camp for war refugees. If I hunt around, I may even still have a catalogue from their clearance sale when they decided to leave harness racing, it is full of horses by Shannondoi, Chorker, Tarcoolador, Kiwi Chieftain and other illuminaries[VVV] Unfortunately, no Phil. As the story goes, that oustanding 1970 foaled son of Bret Hanover and Rilda Guy was suffering from a case of Founder the day that they showed up with the mare to be trailer bred, so it was back on the float and off to Scone and to Forrest Trillium she went. The rest, as they say, is history.
In all seriousness, I've never heard of that horse. Who's paddock did he darken?They then turned the old place into the Bathurst Sheep and Cattle Drome and as far as I know, it is still running quite successfully as that today.
Warning: Horses are expensive, addictive, and may impair the ability to use common sense.
I think Guido is the way to go Jaimie,sign me up for 7 hits!
Of course. I had already taken the liberty of booking you in Rosario. With it being a little known fact that Graham was not only Guido's breeder but also his Trainer throughout his illustrious 1 trial career I knew you'd be back again. This is his 32nd season which poses a few management problems as these days, sometimes when he is collected...all you get is a heap of dust. I am told he and Trevor share that particular foible.
it actually was amazing to think that Stature was the best stallion or let's say the most successful stallion in NSW not that long ago compared to the high quality there is now.things have improved very quickly i'd say.
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