b4breeding

You may recall we have had our Gotta Go Cullect mare Elect To Go racing and on the market lately. We’ve decided to give her a short break after getting a run of bad luck in races or bad draws and only tyre kickers on the market.

But that opens up a different sort of opportunity over summer, and Kym and I would like to hear from anyone who would like join us in racing this mare on a lease-to-race basis. We are keen to let her show her potential – a bit like we did with Driving The Dragon last year, who went on to win 5 races in quick order and was sold to Canada, where she continues to perform well!

Elect To Go is no slouch – 6 starts for a 2nd and a 3rd, she’s a good size, mature mare and is gaining race day experience quickly. Previous trainer Geoffrey Small says she has a couple of wins in her at short notice and believes she would cope fine on the grass, and she goes either left handed for the Cambridge races or right handed if she shows enough to go to Auckland.

We’ve brought her home for a few weeks off, and then Kym will jog her up and start training her and maybe make a couple of starts at Cambridge, with an eye to then passing her to a professional local trainer to take her through the Cambridge/summer country circuit around December/January, which is always a lot of fun.

Could be a nice summer of racing at little expense….and maybe a bit more of a return than just that!

We are just floating the idea at the moment, so if anyone is interested get in touch – bee.raglan@xtra.co.nz or you can call me of 021 2806569 – to discuss joining a race lease partnership with us, or buy her outright if that suits: she is priced at $5000.

Just a reminder – this 5yo lightly raced mare is closely related to Pachacuti (race 2 tonight at Menangle, awful draw over the mile but this horse is classy, 22 wins out of 44 starts and $202,914), and is a half sister to Sovereign Faith (11 wins, 1:53.6) and Lady Sansa (just starting to race in Australia, a 4th and 2nd already), and her dam is a half to the mare Landeck (Conte De Cristo, 48wins and $246,703; Conte Centovalli, 45 wins and $239,654, etc). So the family has a bit of staying power and ability.

Nice breeding, nice mare, nice partners to race with….sounds like a nice summer!