Thanks aussiebreno for your explanation here where i live we have at least 20 trainers in the local area and good sponsors are we to lose most of them if we are to travel to a bigger area like Bathurst and Wagga 2/12 to 4 hours we would probaly lose at least 1/2 of the trainers also the foals they breed to race themselves how are you supposed to try and get more people involved in our industry if we lose the sponsors and trainers small clubs must be kept going for the betterment of the industry IMO
Also with the 7 winner's 3 were out of of non race winning mares and not 1 of the winner's dam had a better than 2 minute winning race record and of the race winning mare's only 2 won a metropilaton penalty race or race's the youngest mare was 5 and the oldest was 20yrs old at the time of foaling ? so does the age of a mare really matter or for that matter does a 2.00 or better mare throw a better foal than any other mare ?
Hi Winston
Personally it doesn't matter me what age a mare is but the thing you will notice is that very few people are willing to spend good money on service fee's for older mare's and a lot of buyer's steer clear of progeny at sale's that are out of mare's 15yrs or older. And i wouldn't say that a 2min mare would throw a better foal but you would hope that it would throw a horse with the same or if not better ability. There has been a lot of unraced mare's throw great horses, so what it probably come's back to is how strong the family is and what sought of type is it.
Totally agree Mango but you hear a lot of people say she's too old to throw a good one and so on what they don't understand Genes don't change as you get older and i've said buy a family and you can't go wrong
I agree. Genes do not change. If you look after them there's no reason why older mares can't keep on producing good horses.
Bathurst
Rce 1- Equity Kicker
Rce 3- Hes Magic Red
Rce 5- Grand Stride/Desirable Guy
Rce 7- Soho Valencia
Rce 8- Lamorak
Rce 9- Grouse Party House (Mightymo)
Rce 10- Major Frank (Sorry Triple)
He'll want to be on his game Mango. The boy is ready to rumble.
hope you are right mango. i bred hes Magic red as well, so will be nice to have 2 finalists. ( i actually bred 5 starters in the heats!)
Your breeding's looking good Mightymo.
Just watched the heats again and i must say there are no standouts in either 2yr old division, there all an even bunch compared to other years when there were standouts going into the finals. Draws will play a big part in it but if i had to pick something this far out it would be Dream Runna in the fillies and Grand Stride in the colts. What do other people think of the heats and who do they like this far out.
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