The Irish National Stud’s Invincible Spirit

The male line of Green Desert is exploding around the world, thanks to the deeds of his brilliant son Invincible Spirit, a leading sire standing at the Irish National Stud, Tully, County Kildare. Invincible Spirit’s reputation as a sire of turf specialists at Group level up to a mile is gaining momentum. [su_button url="https://shop.bluebloods.com.au" style="flat"…

ByKen McLeanApril 29, 20210Comments

Yes Yes Yes

A high class sprinter, an eye-catching type, a speed pedigree of considerable depth; Yes Yes Yes is a horse that ticks all the boxes and it seems that breeders across the country agree, the son of Rubick in his first season at stud serving an impressive harem of 205 mares. And he has 22 in…

ByKristen ManningApril 25, 20210Comments

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“You can observe a lot just by watching”

THE South African pedigree guru Charles Faull was rather fond of saying “Every pedigree is a tutorial!”. His enthusiasm was infectious, his knowledge of breeding matters encyclopaedic, and there was much truth in his aphorism. Great thoroughbreds often have interesting pedigrees, in the sense that they can be instructive if close attention is paid, somewhat…

ByAndrew ReichardApril 12, 20210Comments

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Doubling down brings a Triple Crown

Inbreeding to the family of Narrate serves as a key component within the pedigree of America’s 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify as well as a growing number of other superior individuals. If it were to be asked of this writer to select the American racehorse whose pedigree best exemplifies the value of female family inbreeding…

ByRommy FavershamApril 12, 20210Comments

Distance Ranges For Top Australian Sires: A Perceptible Shift?

[su_button url="http://shop.bluebloods.com.au" style="flat" background="#e7f4fc" color="#2c1f60" center="yes" radius="5" icon="icon: exclamation-circle" icon_color="#2c1f60" download="http://www.stallions.com.au/pdfs/2021-booking%20form.pdf"][first published in BLUEBLOODS Issue 6 - 2020. To get this article and more subscribe][/su_button] Written Tycoon In March and April, 2018, my colleague Dr. Emily Plant and myself spent five weeks in New South Wales (with a 10-day side trip to New Zealand, where I first…

ByBluebloodsApril 6, 20210Comments

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The Triple RF

Thoroughbreds who can demonstrate inbreeding to three different female families within five generations are as rare as hens’ teeth - maybe, even “blue hens’ teeth”. [su_button url="http://shop.bluebloods.com.au" style="flat" background="#e7f4fc" color="#2c1f60" center="yes" radius="5" icon="icon: exclamation-circle" icon_color="#2c1f60" download="http://www.stallions.com.au/pdfs/2021-booking%20form.pdf"][first published in BLUEBLOODS Issue 1 - 2021. To get this article and more subscribe][/su_button] It really did not take very…

ByBluebloodsApril 5, 20210Comments

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Lindy Maurice – Movers & Shakers

It takes a special kind of person to see a gap in the market, then target that niche as a not-for-profit business rather than trying to line their own pockets. Lindy Maurice, the driving force behind Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC), is one such lady. TIC is in its third year of shepherding young people with…

ByGlen LathamMarch 29, 20210Comments

Bluebloods Inglis Easter 2021

Simon Vivian

Simon Vivian An Adelaide father shares with his young son the laborious task of laying concrete down a driveway. To make the time pass more quickly, he has the radio on. As an avid sports fan and keen owner of a couple of thoroughbreds the racing station is his entertainment of choice. He gets his son to…

ByKristen ManningMarch 29, 20210Comments

Bluebloods Inglis Easter 2021

Inglis Easter adapting for success

Sebastian Hutch With COVID’s cloud lurking over a second Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale we talked with the company’s General Manager Bloodstock Sales and Marketing, Sebastian Hutch, to get his perspective on the past 12 months, and what we can look forward to at Riverside in April. Despite predictions of Armageddon this time last year, the Australasian…

ByGlen LathamMarch 29, 20210Comments

Bluebloods Inglis Easter 2021

One degree of separation

Merchant Navy On face value, two of the headline acts among the first-season sires represented at the 2021 Australian Easter Yearling Sale would not appear to have that much in common. But a closer examination of the backgrounds of Coolmore’s Merchant Navy and Newgate’s Russian Revolution reveals some remarkably parallel lines. One degree of separation, you could say. The…

ByJohn HutchinsonMarch 29, 20210Comments

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