Usually with the virtual yearling stables competition I ask you to pick a certain number of yearlings from the sales that you think will do well, and then we follow their progress.
But this time I want to develop a combined virtual stable based on interesting breeding. So this is a collaborative effort, not an individual competition.
The ‘pool” of yearlings includes the 2015 Sales of the Stars sales in New Zealand (the Australasian and the Premier), and also the APG sales yearling sales in Australia (Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney), and the South Australia Yearling Sales. All the catalogues are available online (see links below) as well as hard copies.
Maximum of two yearlings per person please. Give their Lot Number and either APG or Sales of the Stars.
I’m looking for yearlings that have an interesting breeding match. By interesting I mean the match is trying something “outside the square”, or perhaps involving close double ups or following a pedigree matching theory which is more than just “breed the best to the best and hope for the best”.
I would also like us to have some newish sires (or newish damsires) in the stable, where you think the match is particularly interesting or well thought out.
Please include a short explanation for your choices. There must be something about the match that is interesting or intriguing.
You can include yearlings you have bred yourself so long as they fit the other criteria.
And your name, please.
Nominations close 31 January 2015.
Send to bee.raglan@xtra.co.nz
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Catalogues at APG website and PGG Wrightson Sale of the Stars website and SA Yearling sale (only 16 yearlings) http://www.saharness.com/2015-sa-yearling-sale.html
My nominations
I’ll start the ball rolling with:
- APG Lot 467 A filly by Major In Art out of the Perfect Art mare Sunopal. That makes the full brothers Art Major and Perfect Art 2×2 in the pedigree and Artsplace and Perfect Profile both 3×3. As far as I can see, that is the first time such a combination has been tried.
- Sale of the Stars Lot 417 A Muscle Mass colt by the good trotting broodmare Princess Della whom I have written about previously. She is by Last Lord (a son of Lordship, who was one of the last remnants of the Johnny Globe/Globe Derby siring line in New Zealand) and is the only Last Lord mare who is breeding. Princess Della is now 25 years old and this is her 10th foal. The match is complete outcross of sturdy colonial lines with the latest American trotting speed.
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