This thread is great reading.
Special thanks to Fioana, Trevor and Wayne for going to the trouble of sharing their interesting stories
This thread is great reading.
Special thanks to Fioana, Trevor and Wayne for going to the trouble of sharing their interesting stories
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Wayne never mentioned that a few years later the broodmare of his girl produced a half sister to her who won a couple of Gp1's including a sprint lane victory in the Vicbred 2yoF final which inflicted Mindarie Priddy's first ever defeat
Good luck this season
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Hi Kevin
While I hardly use Facebook for my self, and don't even have a personal Twitter account, I do us both forms of social media for the Goulburn Harness Racing Club (Goulburn Facebook and Goulburn Twitter) . It's my experience that in NSW many of the industry participants are on Facebook and it is simply a case of befriending any one of them to see the activity that goes on. In Victoria it seems to me that Twitter is the more favoured form. If you happen to open up a Twitter account start following people like Brett Coffey, Shannon Nixon, Harvey Kaplan or Andy Gath and you will quickly see the extent of discussion that goes on there. As I said, I don't personally like it because you can't really elaborate your point, but you're doing a great job here and I think we can keep this form going. What I would say, is that if you are judging the interest in the industry on the basis of this forum, then you will quickly change your view if you were to jump into Twitter in particular.
Regards
Mark
Twitter is a great immediate forum for harness racing, particularly those interested in punting. Plenty of heated debate!! Marks list of people to follow is a great one. Chris Barsby and Garrick Knight are another couple that often post interesting information.
Personally I have a mare in foal to Betterthancheddar and another in to Mcardle this season. Very excited to see how the Cheddars hit the ground this season. My mare left her first winner this season and its flying at the moment so gives me some hope!
Have a couple of yearlings ready to come back in for their third prep at the moment and both have barely put a foot wrong. With foals hitting the ground, new stallions arriving, and rising 2yos starting to show their stuff, we're coming into my favourite part of the year.
Personally I'm not overly excited about any new stallions this year. For a Reason will (hopefully) draw a lot more attention this year. I remember viewing him up at Jamberoo as a yearling and I still have that photo saved in an old phone somewhere. He was incredible to look at. And his goals have hit the ground running. Unlucky to only have three winners with numerous place getters, some many times over!
The increase of stallions being available only by frozen semen leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. Not only does it increase insemination costs, but means more of our money just flows out of our industry, overseas.
Congratulations Trevor on another win to Sanna Cruza at Shep tonight - a $20 winner. GL with Weona Beach Girl this season
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#SPC22071610
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Yes, Sanna Cruza won well and looks like she will be quite a nice filly. If typical of the family she will get better and better as she gets older.
It is very pleasing as Weona Beach Girl is the only mare that we have left from Weona Jewel's family and, as mentioned yesterday, her breeding career has been horrific.
We have two due this season. Western Terror from a Armbro Operative mare and a Pet rock from a Fully Loaded mare which we leased as the owners could not afford/didn't want to to breed from her this time around. This Season we are hopeful of getting our trotting mare in foal to Skyvalley and Milady Operative going to Pet Rock again or A Rocknroll Dance.
Carribean Blaster x Motu Rubies n Satin.jpg
We have a Caribbean Blaster yearling that is gorgeous - big and strong and the absolute boss of the ones in with her. Always needs to be at the front and in your face. Out of a small (but well bred) bay mare in the Motu line. She's an odd colour, born grey and is now a grey/black kind of colour with a white foot and blaze so have no idea where she gets her colour from. With so many in a paddock together, it's hard to really focus on the others as she is always up front trying to get pats.
We have a bunch of well bred ones so hopefully we'll have some winners in amongst them.
CaptainTreacherous does look interesting based on his second dam being the mother of Worldly Beauty but I don't know if there's much else there breeding wise so maybe CaptainTreacherous and Worldly Beauty were flukes. Follow The Stars looks ok for a cheapie.