WINS by Laure Me In, Crackneck and Molasses last month added to the coffers of their reliable winner-getting sire Ad Valorem who stands at Jock Mackay’s Dungog property, Cangon.
Trained at Forbes by Dennis Bush, Molasses impressively took the Flying Handicap at Wellington to take his record to five wins from 15 starts (and four placings).
Three-year-old geldings Laure Me In won at Morphettville, and Crackneck – trained at Wyong by Allan Kehoe, won his second successive race at Newcastle from four only career starts.
A US-bred son of Danzig, Ad Valorem has sired over 285 winners world-wide of more than 930 wins for progeny earnings now nearing $20 million.
His 14 stakes winners includes Capital Gain winner of Brisbane’s major two-year-old Group 1 feature BRC J J Atkins Stakes.
His most durable stakes winning competitor is Morton’s Fork, a Group 2 winner of five races and $529,075 and counting.
While Ad Valorem has been represented with winners in a massive 39 countries, his latest stakes winner in New Zealand includes Kaharau who has won 10 races including the Otago Race Club Dunedin Gold Cup-LR.
Originally shuttling for stud duties to Godolphin’s Aberdeen base, Ad Valorem brings a direct link to Northern Dancer’s world influential sire son Danzig, and who is also the sire of the great Danehill.
Ad Valorem was produced from stakes winning mare Classy Women, a daughter of In Reality sire Relaunch.
Also sire of over 200 winners is Ad Valorem’s stable companion Dubleo, who is a US bred sire by Southern Halo, the same sire as Vinery Stud’s champion sire More Than Ready.
Greta West scoring winners
While Ad Valorem has been represented with winners in a massive 39 countries, his latest stakes winner in New Zealand includes Kaharau...
ANOTHER Danzig linesire, however via Danehill’s champion sire son Redoute’s Choice that is sharing some stud success is Victorian based stallion Master OF Design, which stands at Laurie McCarthy’s Greta West Stud, Greta West.
A Sydney Group 1 winner and who earned almost $1 million, Master Of Design sired 30 winners and over $1.7m last season of which his biggest earner was gelding Jaminzah, a multiple Melbourne winner who has won a total of seven races and over $324,000.
Other recent Master Of Design winners include the Cameron Crockett trained Another McCloud who easily won his sprint race at Dubbo, and three-year-old grey gelding Greyworm, a winner of two races (including in Melbourne) and was city placed from his first three starts last season.
A half-brother to champion South African racefilly Suntagonal, Master Of Design hails from the Australian Stud Book jewel producing family of Princess Tracy, the stallion’s grand-dam.
Master Of Design was produced from winning Last Tycoon mare Urge To Merge, a sister or half-sister to five stakes winners including Tracy’s Element, dam of Australian Horse Of The Year racemare Typhoon Tracy.
Princess Tracy is a daughter of celebrated but ill-fated shuttle sire of the late 1980s Ahonoora (by Irish imported Lorenzaccio) who belongs to the influential Djebel sireline.
Winners flow for Laurel Oak
THE colours of jackets (that jockeys wear) of white with a distinct large green diagonal cross with red sleeves and cap of Sydney based Laurel Oak Bloodstock, have been figuring prominently on winning horses at different tracks over recent weeks.
Early June saw a welcome return to the winner’s stalls for five-year-old Sir Bacchus, a Sebring gelding that has won seven races and almost $500,000 for a partnership including Laurel Oak.
Sepoy filly, Sweet Scandal – another Laurel Oak partnership and a half-sister to Sir Bacchus, has won two races from three starts, the latest at Warwick Farm last month.
Wins by Smart Missile mare Smart Amelia and Vaucluse Bay (an Al Maher gelding) provided Laurel Oak and partners a major highlight both winning on the same Saturday at Rosehill last month.
Other July winners for the group included three-year-old Sepoy gelding Impasse successful at Kembla Grange while four-year-old Sebring gelding Confidential won at Goulburn.
Vale Strategic
STRATEGIC, a $47 million stud success, has succumbed to the infirmities of old age last month at Godolphin’s Denman district property Woodlands, the same Upper Hunter Valley property that the chestnut stallion was born and bred almost 26 years ago.
Bursting onto the Sydney racing scene, Strategic won five two-year-old races – four at stakes level including three Group races - Golden Slipper lead-up events.
The brilliant sprinter went onto win Melbourne’s MVRC Australia Stakes-G1 and had seconds in the VRC Lightning Stakes-G1 and Sydney’s spring 1000 metres AJC San Domenico Stakes-G2.
By Showdown’s grandson Zeditave, Strategic sired over 600 winners including more than 25 stakes winners his best being Group 1 winners Platelet, Meurice, and the former Lee Curtis trained mare Mistegic. Strategic has also been making a name for himself as a broodmare sire, his daughters producing Group 1 winners Le Romain and Holler, and also Group 3 winner Furnaces, who has been relocated for stud duties at Allandale Park at Hobbys Yards near Bathurst.