2021 NATIONAL NZB STANDARDBRED YEARLING SALE AUCKLAND | 13 & 14 FEBRUARY AT KARAKA SALES COMPLEX CHRISTCHURCH | 15 - 17 FEBRUARY | CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL PARK Lot 234 Moet Shard: $280,000 | 2020 Sale Topper Breeding Vendor: Shard Farm Standardbreds Matters Yearling Sales January 2021 Shard Farm Standardbreds Ltd proudly present their 2021 NZ Premier Sales Draft Lot 226: Cryen Shard Lot 330: Kruz Shard Bay Filly Bay Colt Vincent – Shards Of Myross Rock N Roll Heaven – Dolce Denario Dam4 related 4 to Let it Ride & this colt is by the same Solidly built filly, sire, first foal, real loves people 2YO type, great and excellent natured! conformation! Lot 277: Dalton Shard Lot 388: Maddison Shard Bay Colt Bay Filly Always B Miki – All Time Glory Art Major – Lady Gaga 4 4 Athletic colt, This filly is related stunning presence, to Moet Shard (last great walk, straight year’s sales topper) and correct! lovely correct, athletic filly! Lot 314: Dawson Shard Lot 220: Rocky Shard Bay Colt Bay Colt Sweet Lou – Crackabeach A Rocknroll Dance – Shards Echo 4 4 This guy is a huge This colt is striding colt, a terrific correct, straight & mover who is a well conformed straight and yearling! correct! For enquiries and inspections: For enquiries and inspections: Phone Debbie Smith on 027 258 4687 Southern Bred Southern Reared Phone Debbie Smith on 027 258 4687 Southern Bred Southern Reared Breeding Chairman’s Matters Report. Yearling Sales January 2021 Lot 155: Majestic Son Chairman’s Report 5 – Aleana Executive Manager’s Update 6 Bay Filly Woodlands duo to debut in 2021 8 Feeding weanlings to yearlings 14 Daughter of 3 time Trotting Stallion of the year out a 6 win Breckon draft a decade in the making 17 Armbro Invasion mare who is SBSR to turn up the heat yet again 19 a half to Ordeal Cup winner Miki ticking all the boxes for Alabar 24 Musgrove. 31 Hollis & Robertson have their best draft yet Nice type, strong filly. McCarthy trio the last hurrah for Myrtle 33 Colin Hair Tilsley filly provides timely win 37 NZSBA Chairman A draft that is White hot 40 Lot 323: BETAVET Buildabone - Strength from the inside out 42 Sweet Lou Caig quartet ready to shine at sales 44 What a year we have had. To think it When I sat down to write this article I looked back on what I wrote a year ago. One paragraph I wrote What is driving new speed records? 47 – Delightful Tactics was only 6 months ago that we were in a then still resonates with me today: Covid-19 lockdown, with no horse racing, The Little Girls (and Guys) 50 Bay Filly Top marks for Class of 2019 58 Daughter of world champion and certainly not contemplating offering Deciding to breed horses is a path fraught Dunvegan draft decades in the making 60 pacer out of a lightly raced BD yearlings for sale. That we have returned with many challenges and difficulties. It is Breeding experience will stand Woodham mare. Closely related to the to a situation that feels almost “normal” is a long and windy path, and you require in good stead 62 highly touted BD Joe. remarkable. preservation and faith. You need to have Really big, strong, athletic and Radford’s brothers almost down to the lucky last 64 Harness racing is certainly in good heart and it is the courage of your convictions that the Stress-Free Education for Young Horses 66 good looking filly. very pleasing to see the turnover at the various decision to breed and your choice of a Big breeding plans for Somerset Equestrian 68 meetings over the Christmas / New Year period. stallion for your mare is the correct one. While this strong performance does not directly Kaplan hooked on his draft 71 There are many bumps on the path but Lot 332: benefit the harness code, as HRNZ funding from the the rewards make it all worthwhile. The Blessed Are The Broodmares, Our Group One Gems 76 TAB is based on a previously agreed distribution Leading stallion a sales mystery 81 Sweet Lou amount, it will result in an improved trading feeling that comes from seeing the result All about the family for Dickie 85 – Dudinka’s Angel performance for the TAB, enabling them to improve of your decision take their first suckle from their financial position. Dalgety on the hunt for next Krug 91 its mother is hard to describe, and then the Brown Filly feeling that comes when they step out on Jim Giumelli: Engineering a Path to Daughter of Sweet Lou from The breeding season is rapidly drawing to a close. Success in Harness Racing 94 I congratute all of those breeders, who despite the a racecourse, and of course the immense a wonderful fillies family. All Stars - Mark Purdon and uncertain times still had the courage to commit to satisfaction and feeling of pride if you Dam already producer of two Natalie Rasmussen - Au Revoir 98 breeding their mares. achieve the ultimate and your “baby” is first winners incl stakes performed past the post. Delightful Dude. For vendors at these yearling sales, good luck in the ring. The sales will be held in a different environment Beautiful natured animal and This, along with the statement attributable to Sir Roy with no attendance on site from the usually strong a nice type. McKenzie, I think captures the magic and the passion Published by Australian buying bench. This year more than ever that Breeders bring to the breeding of horses. NZ Standardbred Breeders Assn Inc, Christchurch requires vendors to ensure that they publicise Preparer: Brent McIntyre their yearlings as widely as possible. It will also be In the breeding and racing game you need Macca Lodge, Gore interesting to see if there is any impact on buying to believe in dreams. Some dreams come (03) 202-5506 or 027 752 2284 demand as a result of the recent changes in the training ranks. true. Happy dreams. 4 BREEDING MATTERS JANUARY 2021 5 Tardina Stud Sales Draft Bred by Tony and Anne Parker Executive Manager’s Tardina Farms is a nursery for champion Standardbred Pacers and Trotters. We are home to multiple Update. Group 1 winning and record holding pacers including Chase Auckland, Auckland Reactor, Sharp and Telford, Devil Dodger, The Devils Own and The Parade. We are also the nursery for several stakes performed trotters including Wanna Play, Yagunnakissmeornot & Sex On Fire. Don’t miss out on Every vendor deserves to be congratulated regardless of your opportunity to race a Tardina bred champion from our 2021 draft! the outcome. Two years of bills, sweat and tears come down to 90 LOT 34: UP TO SCRATCH LOT 93: NOD ANDA WINK seconds in the ring. PEAK – SWEETIE Bay Colt FATHER PATRICK – DUTCH ANNIE Bay Colt Some will be rewarded handsomely; others not so, and Second foal and first colt out of Sweetie who has already Energetic nicely conformed colt from the proven Miss Whiplash often through no fault of their own. produced a winning half sister, Wanna Snuggle. A lovely athletic line. A winning cross. colt with a willing attitude. I know from experience that this is a volatile game of LOT 99: BANG FOR YOUR BUCK roulette. LOT 48: KISS AND RUN MUSCLE MASS – EMMA HAMILTON Bay Colt About the only thing in the breeding game you can WHAT THE HILL – YAGUNNAKISSMEORNOT Brown Filly This colt has a lovely reaching trot and a great attitude out of a control is who the parents are and how you follow nature Strong first foal out of the NZ record setting mare NZ Oaks winner. with nurture. Yagunnakissmeornot. Your opportunity to buy into this well performing French-American trotting line. Brad Reid Beyond that, we are reliant on a number of variables LOT 126: BLAZE A TRAIL Executive Manager and a hell of a lot of good luck. And that’s just getting a HE'S WATCHING – MAY FLY Bay Colt yearling to Sales Day in one piece! LOT 70: DARE DEVIL First colt out of Mayfly whose progeny has been busily winning SWEET LOU – BISHOPS BLESSING Bay Colt races internationally incl. the full sister Hereslookingatyou (1:54.6). While I would love to see every vendor succeed, the How was your Christmas break and festive period? You Stunning and correct colt out of Bishops Blessing who has reality is that many will be hoping to simply balance the get much of a break? produced multiple Group 1 horses. Another must see if you are chequebook. LOT 132: A PRETTY PENNY chasing the early money. For anyone involved with horses, the above question(s)is SWEET LOU – MY LITTLE PRINCESS Bay Filly the grounds for becoming a viral Tui billboard. The overall success of a sale should not be measured on A good looking full sister to Mighty Looee (1:54.6) with a super a handful of high-priced lots, but by the strength of the nature from a strong black type family. The only livestock I’ve tended too over the festive middle market. period are family members grazing and liaising over a Christmas lunch, and visiting Classical’s lovely American Win, lose or draw, the majority of vendors will be back in LOT 3: MORERE Idea colt at Gael Murray’s. 12 months’ time to do it all again. SWEET LOU – OPOUTAMA Bay Colt An exciting first foal out of well performing mare Opoutama. Since undertaking this very publication five years ago, I That my friends is true optimism and ultimately why we A well grown correct colt, must see.