INGLIS SALE ON THURSDAY HAS SOME INTERESTING LOTS - AND NSW BREEDERS SHINDIG IS ON 25 AUGUST

Elusive Quality, the Darley shuttled Mr. Prospector grandson who is the sire of Sepoy (Australian juvenile champion, won Golden Slipper, Blue Diamond Stakes), Smarty Jones (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes), Raven’s Pass (Breeders’ Cup Classic) and Camarilla (AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes), to mention but four notables, has three attractive breeding propositions in the Racehorse section of the Inglis Melbourne sale to be held on August 16 and 17.

Both 2008 foals, two of them, Luck’s Elusive (a/c Wood Nook Farm) and Birdlife (Darley), like Sepoy and Camarilla, are from Danehill mares. A lightly raced country winner, Luck’s Elusive is from Perfect Luck, a half-sister to crack sprinters Gold Ace and Final Card, while Birdlife is from Needletail (IRE), a daughter of Indian Skimmer, a Storm Bird winner in Europe of five Group 1s.

Also produced in 2008 and representing Darley, the other Elusive Quality in the Racehorses section is Actors Guild, one of three foals produced by the Sadler’s Wells mare Theatre School (IRE).

Elusive Quality also has 2008 foal, Villainy (a/c Ladyship Lodge), among the broodmares. She is from Analyst (IRE), a sister by Snippetson’s broodmare sire Polish Precedent to French Group 2 winner Sobieski.

The Elusive Quality offspring are among over 200 females in the Inglis catalogue, nearly 100 of them in the racehorses. Wood Nook also offers fillies in this section by Encosta de Lago, Pins, Rock of Gibraltar and Elvstroem, and Darley offspring of Ad Valorem, Iglesia, Strategic, Lonhro, Commands and Cape Cross.

A special feature of the sale is to be the submission of 21 mares in an unreserved dispersal sale for Wadham Park, Tylden, Victoria. They include offspring of Redoute’s Choice, Dehere, Rock of Gibraltar, General Nediym, Hussonet, Stratum, Encosta de Lago, O’Reilly, More Than Ready, Fastnet Rock, Bel Esprit, Snitzel and the Danehill sire Wadham Hill.

Wadham Park’s dispersal also includes 15 male racehorses, among which are winners by Flying Spur, Royal Academy, Fastnet Rock and Encosta de Lago.    

Gerry Harvey, one Australia’s most dynamic businessman, will be in very familiar territory when, along with wife and business partner Katie Page Harvey, he is a special guest at the 2012 National and NSW Breeding Awards Dinner to be conducted at the Scone Race Club on Saturday evening August 25.

One of Australia’s biggest owners of broodmares and racehorses, Gerry is involved in the ownership of two of the most historic studs in the Hunter Valley, Baramul in the Widden Valley (outright) and Vinery, Segenhoe, Scone (a partner) and of one of the major outlets for Harvey Norman, the national merchant group he founded and heads, at Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley.

In addition he is responsible for the sale of a big percentage of the Hunter Valley horses, sharing with Katie Page Harvey the ownership of Australia’s biggest bloodstock sales company, the Gold Coast headquartered Magic Millions.

The Breeders National Awards Dinner, one which is being conducted during the four days in which Hunter Valley studs are to hold their annual stallion parades, is certain to be patronised by leading breeders, owners, trainers and racing administrators.

During the evening, Awards for the 2011-12 season will presented for the Champion Sire, Champion Sire of 2YOs, Champion First Season Sire, Australian Stud Book Broodmare of the Year and Aushorse Breeder of the International Horse of the Year.

Dress code for the dinner is smart casual and tickets are $150 each – tables for eight or ten available. Contact TBNSW, P.O. Box 198, Randwick, 2032, phone (02) 9398 8811, fax (02) 9398 9074, email tbnsw@bigpond.net.au.