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BREEDING MATTERS October 2019 BREEDING MATTERS October 2019 SPANKEM 2019 HORSE OF THE YEAR ReddifordFinancial BETTINGp,2,1:51.8; 3,1:49h, 1:47.4f LINE($2,238,518) FLYING FIRST CLASS Bettor’s Delight–Heather’s Western–Western Hanover br.h. 15.3 Hands NZB Airfreight provide a first class service with frequent and regular flights that reach all corners of the globe including Australia, USA and more. You name the place, we’ll get your horse there! Contact the NZB Airfreight team today www.nzb.co.nz | [email protected] | +64 9 298 0055 INVEST IN QUALITY NZB Finance can help you invest in quality bloodlines with our lease-to-purchase facility. Speak to us about acquiring that high quality filly or race mare today and set yourself up with a commercial breeding prospect for the future. Bettor’s Delight’s Fastest All-Age Son Contact the NZB Finance team today North American 3YO Pacing Colt of the Year www.nzb.co.nz | [email protected] | +64 9 298 0055 Still the Fastest 3YO in History on a Half-Mile Track Winning The Little Brown Jug in a World Record 1:49h Still the Fastest 3YO Ever at a Mile in a World Record 1:47.2f Over a Five-Eighths Mile Track Winner of 14 Consecutive Races at 3 with 10 Victories From 1:47.2 – 1:50 Winner of the $1 Million North America Cup (1:47.4), The Little Brown Jug in Straight Heats (1:50.4h - 1:49h), Battle of Brandywine (1:47.2f), etc. $ Advertised Fee: 10,000 + GST $ GROUP ONE INSURERS $ 500.00 Frozen Semen Cash Bonus Early Booking Fee: 7,500 + GST Paid to Breeders of a Live NZB Insurance has an established history of protecting Frozen Semen the interests of major racing and breeding establishments No payment until April 1, 2020 Betting Line Foal in 2020 domestically and globally. From foals to stallions, we can protect your Standardbred racing and breeding investments. David James & Donna Egan Contact the NZB Insurance team today EMPIRE Sales, Bookings & Administration www.nzb.co.nz | [email protected] | +64 9 298 0055 STALLIONS (NZ) Ltd 0800 402 512 BreedingMatters_BettingLine_09182019.indd 1 9/19/19 6:59:27 AM BETTINGp,2,1:51.8; 3,1:49h, 1:47.4f LINE($2,238,518) FLYING FIRST CLASS Bettor’s Delight–Heather’s Western–Western Hanover br.h. 15.3 Hands NZB Airfreight provide a first class service with frequent and regular flights that reach all corners of the globe including Australia, USA and more. You name the place, we’ll get your horse there! Contact the NZB Airfreight team today www.nzb.co.nz | [email protected] | +64 9 298 0055 INVEST IN QUALITY NZB Finance can help you invest in quality bloodlines with our lease-to-purchase facility. Speak to us about acquiring that high quality filly or race mare today and set yourself up with a commercial breeding prospect for the future. Bettor’s Delight’s Fastest All-Age Son Contact the NZB Finance team today North American 3YO Pacing Colt of the Year www.nzb.co.nz | [email protected] | +64 9 298 0055 Still the Fastest 3YO in History on a Half-Mile Track Winning The Little Brown Jug in a World Record 1:49h Still the Fastest 3YO Ever at a Mile in a World Record 1:47.2f Over a Five-Eighths Mile Track Winner of 14 Consecutive Races at 3 with 10 Victories From 1:47.2 – 1:50 Winner of the $1 Million North America Cup (1:47.4), The Little Brown Jug in Straight Heats (1:50.4h - 1:49h), Battle of Brandywine (1:47.2f), etc. $ Advertised Fee: 10,000 + GST $ GROUP ONE INSURERS $ 500.00 Frozen Semen Cash Bonus Early Booking Fee: 7,500 + GST Paid to Breeders of a Live NZB Insurance has an established history of protecting Frozen Semen the interests of major racing and breeding establishments No payment until April 1, 2020 Betting Line Foal in 2020 domestically and globally. From foals to stallions, we can protect your Standardbred racing and breeding investments. David James & Donna Egan Contact the NZB Insurance team today EMPIRE Sales, Bookings & Administration www.nzb.co.nz | [email protected] | +64 9 298 0055 STALLIONS (NZ) Ltd 0800 402 512 BreedingMatters_BettingLine_09182019.indd 1 9/19/19 6:59:27 AM BREEDING BACARDIBACARDI MATTERS SJ’s Photo – October 2019 Rum Boogie LINDYLINDYby Valley Victory) CHAIRMAN’S CORNER 5 THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED: FROM THE CROSSROADS TO THE LANES AT BRECKON FARMS 6 FEEDING PREGNANT MARES 10 COMMERCIAL PACING SIRE OPTIONS LIKE NEGOTIATING A MINEFIELD 12 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR INCOME STOPS 14 MCINTYRE HEADING INTO NEW TERRATORIES WITH EN SOLITAIRE IN THE FLESH 16 BOYD RECOGNISED FOR 50-YEAR SERVICE 22 COMING TO NEW ZEALAND: NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR HORSE BREEDERS! 24 IRISH EYES ARE SMILING DOWN VINCENT DELANEY WAY 26 DISCUSSION PAPER: HOW DO NEW EMBRYO TECHNOLOGIES MAKE THE BREEDING OBJECTIVES ACHIEVABLE FOR THE NZ STANDARDBRED BREEDER? 28 OneOne ofof Australasia’sAustralasia’s LINK TO HARBOUR LIGHT REALLY WAS A LIFE LINE FOR KEVIN JAMES AND DIANA HARBOUR 32 leadingleading trottingtrotting stallions.stallions. BROODMARE “CENTURIONS” 34 • Sire of Vicbred champions Claudys Princess, CHAMPION EUROPEAN TROTTER THE FIRST SON OF CANTAB HALL TO STAND DOWN UNDER 36 Needabacardi and Cruisin Around … winner of COMBINATION OF SPEED AND STAYING the Kilmore Trotting Cup Sept 26. His lifetime POWER PRODUCES SHARTIN 38 winnings are $258,000. 18 wins incl. The BREEDING REGULATIONS UPDATE 42 Holmfield and Final of 4yo Breeders Crown. PERKINS COMING UP TRUMPS WITH TROTTERS 46 Has won every season since 2yo. LEX WILLIAMS’ LAST COMMERCIAL CROP OF • Sired quinella in 2018 Vicbred Trotting Mares YEARLINGS PROVING QUITE THE SWANSONG 48 Sprint Championship – Margaret Ruth and BROODMARES OF THE YEAR 50 Derrie Aire. CHARLIE ROBERTS’ BREEDING SUCCESS DUE • Sire of 11 Group winners. LARGELY TO BETTOR’S AND ‘THAT FAMILY’ 54 GIRLS LET LOOSE REKINDLES MEMORIES OF • 67 Australian bred winners from 98 starters ENIGMATIC TROTTING MARE SCREWS LOOSE 60 and $3.1 million in stakes. BEAT THE DRUM 62 • Amazing average of $32,000 per starter. LIGHTS OUT AT LEXINGTON: SALE SETS RECORDED FOR GROSS AND AVERAGE 64 goStallions goHarness.org 021 316 717 Fresh semen • DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE 4 Sires Stakes eligible now grade F&M races there is no way more of them will CHAIRMAN’S get to the races. BACARDI It may surprise you to know that there is no Group BACARDI CORNER 1 race for trotting F&M, with 14 for pacing, and that excludes the listed sales races. With trotting at SJ’s Photo – 27 percent of the bred and racing crop this is not John Mooney | NZSBA Chairman Rum Boogie acceptable. It has become harder for trotting F&M by Valley Victory) to compete against C&G. In the last decade only 19 LINDY Welcome to the 2019 breeding season. The Sires (17%) trotting group races were won by F&M. In the LINDY Register is out there. New stallions are with us. For previous decade there was 26 trotting F&M winners the first time there are almost as many trotting (32%) out of 80. stallions as there are pacing. So what is the state of the sport for breeding confidence? We recognise that this will need funding and that dollars are scarce right now: but once strategies are The Breeders work to support a positive environment agreed the dollars should follow, even if they come to breed your horses. Recently we prepared for the from somewhere else. HRNZ annual Conference some statistics that may be of interest: The new reduced size HRNZ board must adopted a greater strategic focus on the future of the sport • NZSBA has 640 financial members representing and lift itself above the day-to-day operational 1,100 people with partners stuff. HRNZ’s responses to the minister’s rapid • There were 1796 names on breeding certificates in implementation of the Messara review must help set 2019, slight increase on 2018 but significantly down the direction of our sport for the next two decades at on the 2764 named breeders in 2010 least. • 83% of breeders are 50+ years, 7% are less than 40 years old The big strategic issues are the replacement for • 68% of breeders are in the South Island, with 32% the Section 16 funding formula, the opportunities to North Island (mares are similar) outsource some TAB services including wagering, • NZSBA members bred 95% Group races winners the allocation of dates, the structure of the RIU and last season. JCA, the rationalisation of venues and the increasing turnover and influence of sports wagering. Our Who are the breeders? sport needs a united, well-researched and at times aggressive approach to advocating for harness • 62% of breeders breed one mare racing. And, in the meantime the outcomes from • 65% of the horse population is bred by people One of Australasia’s Operation INCA are hanging around, unfinished One of Australasia’s breeding one to four mares and lingering for at least another year. We are in the • 35 breeders bred 10+ mares last season weakest position of all the codes. leadingleading trottingtrotting stallions.stallions. • A 10-year trend: 47% of breeders also retain an ownership share and race their horses. Thoroughbred racing is seeking to benefit almost exclusively from both NZ and overseas wagering. • Sire of Vicbred champions Claudys Princess, In NZ last five years pacing bred mares decreased Its market is increasing. The dogs can run almost Needabacardi and Cruisin Around … winner of by 22.2% while trotting mares bred increased by 9.3% an unlimited number of meetings to fill Trackside.
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