Victorian thoroughbred nursery
Chatswood Stud based at Seymour is the home of Victoria’s
2014-15 Champion First Season Sire of REWARD FOR EFFORT.
On Sunday 23rd August from 1:00pm, Chatswood Stud are holding an Open Day and Stallion Parade, giving breeder’s and interested parties the opportunity to visit the stud and behold the incredibly good looking stallion
REWARD FOR EFFORT – a son of Champion Sire and World Champion 2yo Sire - EXCEED AND EXCEL.
REWARD FOR EFFORT’s oldest progeny have just turned 3yo’s and he couldn’t be off to a better start as stud.
With big books of mares courtesy of an
exceptionally competitive service fee of just $11,000, breeder’s flocked to the sire in each year he has been active in the breeding barn. That’s proved to be a wise decision.
He covered
150 mares in his first season at stud in 2011 and followed that with books of
173 in 2012, 179 in 2013 and 168 in 2014.
That made
REWARD FOR EFFORT the Most Popular Sire in Victoria and a Top 10 Sire in Australia.
Based upon his incredible results, great physique, outstanding race career and excellent pedigree rolled into an outstanding value service fee, there seems little doubt that his 2015 book will be his biggest yet and the book full sign may be hung on his barn door such is his popularity.
REWARD FOR EFFORT was crowned CHAMPION 1st Season Sire in Victoria and was runner-up on the active First Season Sires list on the Australian Premiership to ROTHESAY.
Bringing things into perspective, ROTHESAY had a great season with 14 individual 2yo winners however he is based in Queensland where he’s achieved these results whilst
REWARD FOR EFFORT had 9 individual 2yo winners + another 1 at Turffontein in South Africa.
That also placed REWARD FOR EFFORT ahead of all the NSW based active First Season Sires for individual winners.
REWARD FOR EFFORT has gone on with the job since the start of the new season, siring his first Stakes Winner last weekend when his son
GOLD SYMPHONY from the mare
TZARESS (by Stravinsky) won the
Gr3 VAIN Stakes for trainer Peter Moody.
REWARD FOR EFFORT has made a fast start to the new season where he is currently the
Leading Second Season Sire in Australia,
He has produced 2 winners of $144,075 placing him on top by both earnings and individual winners.
A brilliant racehorse, he was the 2009 Blue Diamond Winner at 2, an undefeated Weight For Age Winner at 3 and a Group winner at 4.
He started in 10 races under the Dynamic Syndications ownership – 4 wins, 1 second, 1 third and $937,200 in earnings.
REWARD FOR EFFORT only competed in Stakes Races during his 10 race career, which started in brilliant fashion with a win at 2 on debut in the MRC Blue Diamond Preview LR (1000m).
He followed up with a decisive win in the
MRC Blue Diamond S Gr 1 (1200m), defeating subsequent Gr 1 winners Starspangledbanner and Rostova.
Undefeated weight-for-age winner at 3 in the
Sir John Monash Stakes and a Group winner at 4 in the
Concorde Stakes.
REWARD FOR EFFORT is a 3/4 brother-in-blood to Golden Slipper Winner OVERREACH.
Bred in the purple - by world Champion 2yo sire Exceed and Excel from a Stakes winning mare by Champion Sire and Champion Broodmare Sire Rory’s Jester [a champion 2yo and a winner of the STC Golden Slipper S Gr 1 – also the sire of a Golden Slipper winner !]
Chatswood Stud is located at 400 Hume and Hovell Road, Seymour, VIC. (03) 5799 0560