SUNSPEED WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER RACING & BREEDING MAGAZINE WINTER 2013 INSIDE: STALLION TENDER SCHEME FEATURED INDUSTRY PROFILES STALLIONS STANDING IN WA STALLIONS EDITION 2013 Thoroughbred Breeders WA TBWA Safety Awareness Training log on to www.tbwa.net.au The TBWA SafetyTh Awarenessor oughbredTraining program is now up and Breeders running WA Understand the dangers and be vigilant in the work place. Please keep in mind that if an incident/injury was to occur on your property, you will most likely be asked by insurers or possibly an inspector from DOSHWA if you made the injured party aware of the dangers / hazards of being around horses or working with machinery or if they have been appropriately trained. Having had staff complete this program is just one step towards training your staff and induct- ing them on their duties at your property. Free for TBWA financial members or $20 per user for non members For more information contact Amanda Abraham on 9277 9880 or [email protected] By developing a safer environment on our properties, we may be able to make an industry approach to insurers to lower our current worker compensation premiums. Please go to our website, www.tbwa.net.au log on, and give it a try now. Safety is everyone’s business. Please note this program is not a registered training course, it was designed to ensure everyone involved in our industry is aware of the dangers of working with horses and on stud farms. We are trying to ensure that our families, staff and visitors to our farms or staff working at sales are at least aware of the dangers. We have worked on the very simple premise that if we can prevent one serious injury, then our time, effort and the associations funds have been well spent. Thoroughbred Breeders WA www.tbwa.net.au SUNSPEED WINTER 2013 TO SELECT THE RIGHT STALLION FOR YOUR Contents MARE YOU NEED THE Presidents Letter ................................................................................................3 RIGHT ADVICE That Winning Feeling ...........................................................................................4 Around the Stallions Barn ..............................................................................6 Contact John Chalmers, WA’s Pierro, All Too Hard & Black Caviar, the turf loses 3 stars ...............14 most experienced Bloodstock Kim Loxton ..........................................................................................................16 Kentucky Tour ....................................................................................................19 Agent for independent advice. Henry Hughes USA Feature .........................................................................21 With over 30 Magic Millions cocktail party ......................................................................22 years experience Quality sells well at Perth Yearling sale ............................................ 24 John can advise on the most Around the Perth yearling sale .......................................................... 26 suitable sire for Yarradale Sale ...................................................................................................28 your mare. Careful consideration is Winning in Malaysia ............................................................................ 30 given to matching Fin Powrie .............................................................................................. 32 the conformation, Bloodstock syndication ....................................................................... 38 the pedigree and addressing the commercial prospects of the Equine amnionitis vet story ................................................................ 40 resultant progeny. Stallion tender scheme write up ....................................................... 42 All at no charge to you the mare owner. Tender Scheme Form ......................................................................................43 BROODMARES: Many quality mares Stallion Directory .............................................................................................46 available including a host of black type performers or producers. THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS WA PRESIDENT ADVERTISING Ian Riley Amanda Abraham VICE- PRESIDENT CONTRIBUTORS Gray Williamson Veronica Jackson-Smith COMMITTEE John Elsegood Colin Brown (Treasurer) Karl Patterson Grant Burns (Executive PHOTOGRAPHY Officer) Hollands Photographics Don’t delay – call Siobhan Campbell Ann Croucher “The Proven Performer” Allan Young DESIGN & PRINTING Duran Carter for professional service and reliable Benson Advertising & Vanguard Press Phil Ibbotson Thoroughbred Breeders WA advice on all your bloodstock needs. Ann Croucher Phone- 9277 9880 EDITOR Email- [email protected] Amanda Abraham CALL JOHN CHALMERS Phone: (08) 9534 3577 This publication is carefully checked and believed to be correct, however the committee is not responsible or liable for any mistake or misprint. Mobile: 0418 948 604 Reproduction of any kind is forbidden unless permission is given by Fax: (08) 9534 3588 the editor in writing. The opinions expressed in this magazine are not Email: [email protected] necessarily those of the editor or TBWA. 2 SUNSPEED WINTER 2013 President’s Report Welcome Breeders and Racing Industry $50,000 to breed profitably. Many participants to the 2013 Stallion Edition of of us will need the Thoroughbred Breeders WA - help to upgrade Sunspeed Magazine. our broodmare band. We need to look at every WA deserves its own stallion book and we thank our option, including members for their support of this magazine. As the support from the depth and quality of the WA thoroughbred continues to sales companies improve this annual magazine will prove an invaluable and perhaps even tool in selecting your matings. obtaining finance to upgrade. That’s my segue to mentioning our WA Breeders seminar on the 12th July at 12.30 in the PR.Com room We need to establish common objectives and work at Ascot racecourse. together, similar to how NZ and the Hunter Valley work together to market their product. Develop a market Our Perth yearling sale hasn’t grown in real dollar terms niche that attracts buyers to our product. for the last 7 years. An economist will more than likely tell you that “what doesn’t grow will eventually die”. It’s TBWA have developed a costing spreadsheet which my view that our industry is at the cross roads. We can calculates the cost of a yearling from inception through rely on excuses like, we have suffered due to the GFC, to fall of hammer. Please contact Amanda via we don’t have a suitable sales venue or the down turn in [email protected] and she will happily send you a copy the resource sector will knock us around. Or we can take of this spreadsheet. a hard look at our product and work together to produce thoroughbreds that our local buying bench wants and Please take the time to attend our seminar, listen to our can attract both interstate and overseas buyers. interstate and local presenters and help position our industry for growth and profitability over the coming WA buyers have spent an average of $7.3m per annum years. Only with everyone working together can we on yearlings from interstate and NZ sales over the last 5 develop a position of strength in the national market. years. That’s over $36m. The bottom line is that we need more of these dollars to be spent on our local product. Our TBWA online OH&S awareness program (which The question is, how can we achieve this? Breeding can be used by all industry participants) has been live profitably is extremely tough, but the key ingredient has for several weeks; therefore I hope all WA breeders to be quality, therefore as a starting point I recommend: have now completed their safety awareness certificate. If you haven’t completed this course, please go to That breeder’s work together to our website and complete your certificate now. We bring in new well performed and also encourage you to have your staff, family and regular visitors to your property complete this safety bred stallions. Multiple successful awareness course. stallions standing in WA is critical to the success of our industry. It All the best in planning your matings for the coming season. can’t be left to 2 or 3 breeders to carry the load for us. Regards We need to continually upgrade the quality of the broodmares being bred to in WA. The average cost of producing a Premier Select Sale yearling is between $35,000 and $45,000. Therefore, we have Ian Riley to be breeding from black type and winning families President with the expectation of selling the produce for over Thoroughbred Breeders WA SUNSPEED WINTER 2013 3 That Winning Feeling 4 SUNSPEED WINTER 2013 That Winning Feeling SUNSPEED WINTER 2013 5 A round the Stallion Barns BLACKWATCH STUD his veins. A Group 1 winner of the stallion making Caulfield Guineas as a 3YO, Econsul previously stood There is a saying that is so true, “you can never have at stud in Victoria and comes to the west for the coming too much of a good thing” and the striking looking, well breeding season. Already the sire of many winners over related PASSENGER (Redoute’s Choice) is another east as well as having the stakes performed Shezapro of the son’s of Redoute’s Choice that stands at stud in here in WA, Econsul has sired city winners in Victoria, WA for the 2013 season. In the past few seasons, the New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and here champion sire has now established himself as a sire of in the WA of course as well.