Tara Madgwick - Queen of Breednet
TARA is without peer as the Media Queen of the Australian Breeding Industry and her BREEDNET website is the premier source of industry information.
So when Tara talks we listen & When Tara writes we read !
Tara recently wrote a whimsical article about the William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in the form of an A to Z highlights story. Not to steal her thunder, we have extracted some paragraphs that we thought our readers would enjoy. The whole story is a fun read and can be found on Tara's website at www.breednet.com.au
Gallop. We've seen these yearlings, walk, play, parade and do everything but gallop in recent weeks and from here on in for them, the galloping part will be all that matters. Hopefully some of them can do it very fast!
Interesting is the career of Master of Design, a $2.1 million purchase for Darley from this sale in 2007, who was then culled from the team and resurrected by some enterprising investors who bought him for a fraction of that price. Sent to David Payne, the now six year-old son of Redoute's Choice posted a Group I win in the ATC TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday and is now back in the game as a sire prospect.
This story has more twists and turns than a Patinack Farm staff roster and as another interesting aside, Master of Design was the horse that featured in the ?Stable Investment' advertising campaign to promote the 2009 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
That handsome dark bay colt with the star and snip looking over the stable door down at the old Newmarket stables was Master of Design.
Lonhro made a great many vendors happy coming off his modest $33,000 2009 service fee and none more so than John North of Bowness Stud, who sold a colt from Indalama for $500,000.
New stallions are being announced left right and centre and when the name is mentioned and people say, what's that? The farm knows it needs to do plenty of marketing!
Pedigrees are thick with Black Type at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, but far too often a fat page does not equate to a good sort. This sale is boxed into somewhat of an awkward corner of its own making in that the auction house is almost forced to take some youngsters by virtue of their page and despite their type.
While Magic Millions tends to get the progeny of young mares that are the sisters or daughters of the good horses, Easter has the old pedigrees that may have already yielded their best. Could this be the reason that Magic Millions have sold eight of the last 10 Slipper winners sold at auction?
Returning to the sale for the first time in a number of years were the Hong Kong Jockey Club, who finally buried the hatchet after engaging in a petty vendetta against Racing NSW over the re-licensing of Chris Munce, with breeders who had nothing to do with this caught in the middle.
For the record they purchased eight yearlings for $2.1 million.