Thursday, February 20, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING Luskin Park’s breeding Read Tomorrow's Issue For: stock to be dispersed On The Watch Maiden Of The Week at Inglis’ May sale What's on Family of respected industry figure Paul Whelan to also sell Race meetings: Grafton (NSW), Pakenham well-known Hunter Valley property (VIC), Warrnambool (VIC), Townsville (QLD), Geraldton (WA), Kingscote (SA), Te Kupenga (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Hawkesbury (NSW) RACING NEWS Edinburgh Park-bred Tanker John Whelan (left) with his late father Paul SPORTPIX and Glenfiddich to run in conducting the dispersal sale on behalf of the Blue Diamond BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS family of the late Luskin Park proprietor Paul Edinburgh Park Stud will enter uncharted uskin Park Stud’s stakes winner Whelan at its The Chairman’s Sale and Australian territory with a two-pronged assault on the Sprightly Lass (Snitzel), proven Weanling and Broodmare Sale from May 6. $1,500,000 Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at broodmare Twelve Pack Shelly The unreserved sale of 30 Luskin Park- Caulfield on Saturday. (Deputy Storm) and Group 1-winning owned broodmares, racemares and weanlings Superbly-bred colts Tanker (Pride Of Dubai) Lstallion Foxwedge’s (Fastnet Rock) sister She’s A comes after the former long-serving Labor and Glenfiddich (Fastnet Rock) will take the New Wildcat will be offered for sale by Inglis after the government NSW Police Minister died last South Wales-based stud to new heights in the blue Whelan family’s decision to exit the industry. October, aged 75, after a long battle with riband juvenile event. The auction house will have the honour of cancer. Continued page 2>> Edinburgh Park’s Ian Smith is ecstatic to be represented by the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS FROM | ASCOT | PAGE 12 Yearling Sale graduates. Racing News page 10 >> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Luskin Park’s breeding stock to be dispersed at Inglis’ May sale | 2 | Thursday, February 20, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Son John Whelan yesterday admitted it was a difficult and emotional decision to disperse his father’s breeding stock, which includes sought after international families that have been developed over the past 20 years. “We’ve had the farm for close to 20 years now and it gave us great enjoyment and we bred some great horses there, so it is just sad to see it go,” Whelan told ANZ Bloodstock News. “The strength of the farm was that my father lived there with my mother and he was hands on. He was able to give the attention and all the detail to the land itself but also to all the horses. “He was on top of everything whereas I don’t work in the horseracing industry and I’m based in Sydney. I just can’t do it remotely from here and I would be doing it a disservice. Flying Artie SPORTPIX “Ultimately, we’d be heading towards trouble if we tried to do it from a distance because I certainly wouldn’t be able to do it as he did it.” foal to Pierro and I’d be so excited to see what that foal turns out like but, Among the Luskin Park bloodstock set to be sold at Riverside Stables are: unfortunately, we’re just going to have to put her on the market,” he said. • US-bred mare Late Spring (Speightstown), who was a juvenile “There was no way in the world we’d be selling her (if dad was still winner and stakes-placed at Del Mar, in foal to champion three- alive). That is how it is, so it is an opportunity for someone else as it is a year-old The Autumn Sun (Redoute’s Choice); genuine dispersal sale.” • She’s A Wildcat (Fastnet Rock), who is a sister to Woodside Park Whelan also took pride in his father’s willingness to look abroad to Stud-based Foxwedge and dam of unbeaten Sydney-winning, expand his broodmare band, with the likes of US$85,000 purchase Twelve Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m)-nominated two-year-old Pack Shelly and Late Spring, a US$230,000 buy at Keeneland’s November colt Untamed (Pierro); Breeding Stock Sale in 2016. • The stakes-winning mare Sprightly Lass, who is a sister to the “What my old man did and proved to be successful at was that he went Listed winer Le Cordon Bleu, in foal to Pierro (Lonhro); to the States,” he said. • Twelve Pack Shelly, the dam of Listed winner Kentucky Miss “He bought a lot of good American sprinting mares and we found (Foxwedge), will be sold not in foal. Her yearling colt by Flying because the American market were really trying to win a Kentucky Derby Artie (Artie Schiller) made $160,000 at the Magic Millions Gold or a staying race, they didn’t pay the attention that the Australian breeders Coast Yearling Sale in January to the bid of Edmonds Racing and do to the sprinting mares. Kestrel Thoroughbreds; and “We were able to pick up some good black-type US mares that have • A weanling half-sister to Kentucky Miss, and a sibling to Sprightly proven to be good producers here. It will be sad to see them go as well.” Lass and Le Cordon Bleu by Flying Artie, will be offered during Inglis general manager of bloodstock sales and marketing Sebastian the foal session. Hutch believes the stock offered at the dispersal will find favour with a wide • Had his father not died, the above-mentioned broodmares range of potential purchasers. would not have come on the market, according to Whelan. “Paul, to his credit, was a hugely effective breeder over an extended “At Sprightly Lass’s last two starts she beat Santa Ana Lane at stakes period of time. He was a very well respected manager of stock, he raced a lot level. She is a Snitzel mare who we had to retire to stud, but she is now in of horses and bred a lot of good horses,” Hutch said. Continued on page 3>> NEW FEATURES IN 2020 THE MOST TRIAL THEM NOW COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL TOOLKIT FOR BREEDERS. ardex.com.au Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by Luskin Park’s breeding stock to be dispersed at Inglis’ May sale | 3 | Thursday, February 20, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “A lot of the pedigrees are very desirable and the management of that stock, the people who are acquiring those mares, are going to benefit from that. “For example, She’s A Wildcat, the dam of China Horse Club (and Newgate Farm’s) nice two-year-old Untamed. It is quite rare to see a Pierro show that level of precocity and he’s obviously a very exciting horse. “For his dam to go on the market is a terrific opportunity for those looking to invest in quality stock.” The famous 113-acre Luskin Park Stud, located at Luskintyre in the lower Hunter Valley, is the birthplace of champion Newcastle sprinter Luskin Star (Kaoru Star) and the Whelan-bred Group 1 winners Foxwedge and Rock Classic (Fastnet Rock). It will also soon be placed on the market with Inglis and Hunter Valley Foxwedge SPORTPIX agent, PRD’s Cathy Cattell. Whelan hopes the buyer of Luskin Park Stud will keep it as a development Jonathan D’Arcy said: “Inglis is honoured to have been thoroughbred breeding property. asked by the Whelan family to sell the bloodstock that the late Mr Whelan “We bought it from Jim O’Neill who bred Luskin Star. He was born and has spent the past 20 years developing. bred there and we have had a few Group 1 winners in Foxwedge and Rock “Paul was a great friend of the company and we had the pleasure Classic who were born on the farm as well, so it has got a long history of of selling some outstanding yearlings for him and his family over many being able to produce good horses,” he said. years, including the Group 1 William Reid Stakes winner Foxwedge for “It would be a shame to see it not be a horse stud but that is obviously $925,000 at the Easter Sale of 2010.” up to the new purchaser.” The Luskin Park dispersal will be conducted from May 6 to 11 at Inglis’ Inglis general manager of bloodstock operations and international Riverside Stables complex in Sydney. 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