Well-known and likable
NSW Breeder Ian Smith is the owner of boutique thoroughbred nursery
Edinburgh Park. In response to the recent biased negative press coverage by the ABC into horse welfare, Ian has announced all horses carrying his industry renowned
IKS brand can always be returned to their place of birth upon racetrack retirement.
Ian Smith owner of Edinburgh Park is offering a lifetime commitment to his horses
Ian Smith stated,
"When I saw the ABC programme, I chose to show immediate leadership, by ensuring that no horse carrying Edinburgh's IKS brand should end up at an abattoir.”
"Someone needed to step up and we're a well-known stud in Australia and we care about our horses."
Edinburgh Park have a first-class reputation for producing top-quality racehorses including world champion sprinter Silent Witness, Stakes-Winners such as Bull Point, Amovatio, Sister Madly, Dances on Waves and this season’s two-year-old stakes-winner Tanker.
The IKS brand is well recognised at yearling sales around the country, with their boutique drafts always highly prized.
Ian Smith has positively implemented a
“price guarantee buy-back” upon every Edinburgh Park-branded horse, ruling out any possibility their horses being denied a caring home upon their racing career retirement.
Ian stated:
"Any horse that is carrying our brand, we price guarantee $1000.”
"It's an initiative that I thought long and hard about and I wanted to do something for the longevity of not just my business, but also our industry as a whole.
"The welfare of the horse matters most and that's why Edinburgh Park has been so successful - because the horse comes first, and always has."
With the high quality of Ian’s broodmare band and the excellent matings he chooses for each mare, Ian’s fillies are
99.9% assured of having a career as a
commercial broodmare upon racetrack retirement.
As for their colts, it’s a commercial fact that a large majority will have
zero commercial value upon retirement. It can be hard to find a home for retired male horses as there is only a limited number that can be gifted away for careers as
pleasure ponies, pony club horses or polo ponies.
Therefore, Edinburgh Park offering to buy-back all their bred horses for
$1000, that figure is to safely offset the cost of any float fee of any horse to their property and ensures a happy post-racetrack lifestyle at the magnificent property that is Edinburgh Park.
Dynamic Syndications have purchased horses from Ian Smith’s Edinburgh Park previously and with the introduction of the guaranteed re-homing of horses, it will certainly encourage us to look harder at their yearlings with the view of buying more horses from Edinburgh Park, because we are safe in the knowledge that they are guaranteed a high-class, caring lifestyle in retirement.
It’s also a feel-good position for our Dynamic Ownership Teams, because they are safe in the knowledge their horse, should it be necessary, will be professionally cared for without ongoing financial burden.
IAN SMITH at the sales
Dynamic Syndications congratulate Ian Smith / Edinburgh Park on this excellent initiative.
Dynamic Syndications have raced the
Edinburgh Park bred mare LAMMA HILTON who
won 6 races and
$158,030.
LAMMA HILTON won 6 races - she was bred by Ian Smith at Edingburgh Park Stud.
Whilst in 2019, we purchased the magnificent
2yo colt BAXTER (by Scissor Kick ex Miss Bax) and we are now delighted to know he is
guaranteed a home post-racing should we require to access Ian’s offer.
Dynamic Syndications 2yo BAXTER with his Edinburgh Park IKS Brand on his near shoulder