Nsw Oaks

[Bucky]

Courageous Annie continued her winning way in Nsw last night.

Lucky shes a QUEENSLANDER!!!

[mango]

She went super and has nearly repaid her purchase price and there's plenty more wins to come.

[nat]

What's more impressive is the phenomenal rise of Courage Under Fire as a sire of top youngsters it continues to grow

[mango]

Wonder where he will be standing next year.

[Love Of Courage]

Wonder where he will be standing next year.


Care to elaborate on this comment if you can without any problems.

[mango]

Hi Love Of Courage

I've been told the stallion station will cease operating.

[triplev123]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMenB9Ywh2Q

Sing along now...

Ooh, let's go
Les walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low... :rolleyes:

[mango]

I'm only speculating on what i've been told so if anyone knows anymore feel free to let us know. If it is true there's a few nice stallions looking for new home's, Mach 3 (overpriced) Courage Under Fire, Mr Big and Art Official and the underated Riverboat King.

[triplev123]

Yeh I know. It'll be unfortunate if true because any reduction in competition for the Breeder Dollar cannot be a good thing.

[buster]

I heard they were finished a while ago mango and forgot about it until your post - and it was from a pretty reliable source

[triplev123]

Hey,...in that clip, is it just me or does Freddy Mercury look a Hell of a lot like old school Alan Galloway only with a black dye job on his hair and moustache? :p:p:p:p

[mango]

Hi Buster

Yeah i was told just after christmas but wasn't sure if there was any substance behind it so didn't say anything but i believe there all over (stallion station) and to be honest who would take M3 on at that price with RNHanover, RNHeaven, Bettor's, Art Major, Sportswriter all cheaper. I own a M3 mare but for me i can't see how he can command double what they pay in Canada thats just a joke he should be $8,000 max.

[triplev123]

G'day Mango,
The hardest part about Mach Three is not the fee so much as it is the repeated number of services & so the time and extra expense involved in getting your mare in foal. He does get them eventually but it seems to take him at least 2 & often 3 attempts each and sometimes for whatever reason the ordered semen just doesn't arrive at all. I'm guessing that the latter is because he doesn't give big volumes to start with and then from time to time the timing of the mares cycling is such that it conspires to see him get swamped with a heap of requests on the same day so some mares just get dropped off the list. Unavoidable things such as that happen from time to time with virtually every farm that stands an in-demand horse...and they'd be lying to you if they said it didn't... so he's not alone there. In 2009/10 season in Oz he served 76 mares via transported semen and he notably he got 63 of them in foal (a smashing 82.9%) for a final result of 53 live foals. If we're fair and allot him a marker of 2.25 serves per mare on average to achieve PTIF...then I'd hazzard a guess that the 63 mares that went in foal to him were collectively served up in the vicinity of 140 times. As an aside, I had a good look at a few of them in Sydney and really liked Eric Basham's colt, Lot 401. Typical of Eric's youngsters, he had plenty of muscle & bone to him plus he was really light over the ground, a really classy horse. Went for 21k to Mitchell Lenaghan.

[mango]

Hey Triple

Yeah Lot 401 was prepared by a mate of mine and i seen him a few time's in the 6wks whilst he was there he got the same feed as the others and ate like there was know tommorrow but never bulked up like they wanted but that was just the make of him.

[triplev123]

He was a classy type. I'd be very surprised if he didn't show up next year. Eric's a good bloke, breeds some damned nice horses too.

[justdoit]

10 weeks 10 weeks 10 weeks, just for you Mango:)

[mango]

Your getting ripped or you don't know what your doing ??????