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There is no doubt the business of thoroughbred breeding is cyclical. As an example take the stud-related events of the last week for Darley in Australia.
Midweek Darley announced the retirement from stud duty of Reset, a son of Zabeel who had served Sheikh Mohammed’s breeding operation in Australia admirably for almost 15 years.
Reset joined the Darley roster in 2004 after a spectacularly brief racing career that lasted little more than two months in the late summer of 2003!
His time in NSW was also brief as he has been based at Darley’s Northwood Park in Victoria for the last 13 years. where he became one of the most successful stallions to stand at stud in that state.
By Zabeel from the multiple G1-winning mare Assertive Lass, Reset’s first crop included the G1 Victoria Derby and G1 South Australian Derby winner Rebel Raider.Reset has since sired another four G1 winners of considerable note - the Caulfield Cup winner Fawkner, Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker, Epsom Handicap winner Hauraki and VRC Oaks winner Set Square.
Fawkner, racing in the Lloyd Williams colours, became a triple G1 winner, also picking up the Caulfield Stakes and Makybe Diva Stakes and finishing seconds in the WS Cox PlateReset retires as the sire of 33 stakes winners among 442 individual winners – but the Darley show rolls on as evidenced by one of the younger members of the big stallion roster siring his first winner on Saturday.
Hallowed Crown, a G1 winning son of former shuttle sire Street Sense, got his stud career rolling with the breakthrough win of his 2YO colt Let’s Cheer Again at the Gold Coast.He is only the fourth runner by the 2015 Randwick Guineas and Golden Rose winner.
Let’s Cheer Again is a typical Darley homebred, being out of the Exceed And Excel mare Excessively, a half-sister to the G2 winner Barbaricus.However he was sold by Gerry Harvey’s Baramul Stud with Queensland trainer Stuart Kendrick picking him up for $85,000 at last year’s Magic Millions 2YOs in Training Sale.
Hallowed Crown’s place in the breeding cycle for Darley lies in the fact that his dam Crowned Glory is a half-sister to Reset’s sire Zabeel.Hallowed Crown is an extension of the Street Cry sire line and that cycle kicked in for Godolphin when Trekking, a son of the late champion sire, won the G3 Hall Mark Stakes at Randwick.
The James Cummings-trained Trekking is by Street Cry, the sire of Street Sense and Winx, from Outdoor, a Redoute's Choice mare.
He is Lonhro’s 83rd lifetime stakes winner and takes his sire’s number of individual winners this season to 75, among them the G1 winners Lyre and Aristia.
Plague Stone is out of the winning Elusive Quality mare Giggleswick, a daughter of High School (Sadler’s Wells).He has the G3 Gold Coast Guineas on May 4 as his next target in Queensland.
Meanwhile Denman, a son of Lonhro, produced a new stakes winner when his 3YO filly Laburnum won the G3 JHB Carr Stakes at Randwick in the Godolphin colours.Denman was until recently a successful member of the Dartey roster and is now a resident at Twin Hills Stud in southern NSW
Laburnum is a daughter of the winning Redoute’s Choice mare Runes, a sister to the G3 winner Mearas and half-sister to another G3 winner Chetwood (Exceed And Excel).It’s a notable family of G1 winners including Grand Armee, Drum, Anamato, Dealer Principal and Dundeel.
Laburnum’s win came a week after another Denman product Humma Humma won the Listed Redelva Stakes at Morphettville.Laburnum has won three of her 14 career starts with six placings for prize-money of $213,620.
Runes is now owned by Corumbene Stud, who purchased the mare for $240,000 at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale.She has since produce d a weanling filly by another Darley sire Shooting To Win and was covered by Dissident last spring.
The cycle rolls on.
