Shepparton businessman and hobby breeder Heath Barton struck paydirt when he purchased his first broodmare, Ezee Duzit Lombo, from Mick Lombardo’s Concorde Park stud 11 years ago.
“I attended Mick’s dispersal sale at his farm and I had five mares picked out, but I missed buying her at the sale. I really liked her dam, Ezee Lombo,” Barton said.
“I got outbid on a Life Sign filly and on another one after that. A few days later, the farm manager, Tony Woods, rang me and told me that he had a couple of horses that were passed in at the sale for me to look at.
“One of them was Ezee Duzit Lombo and I told him that I would take her.”
A smart racemare in her own right, Ezee Duzit Lombo has left five winners from five foals to race for Barton and is proving to be something of a broodmare gem.
Last Friday at Melton, Ezee Duzit Lombo put an exclamation mark on her breeding career when she produced a winning double with the Andy and Kate Gath-trained pair Highlandhartbreaka (by Sweet Lou) and Kyoretsu (by Betting Line).
Both were bred and are raced by Barton.
“I was pretty happy to win two races in a row,” Barton, who is holidaying in North America, said. “Because of the time difference, I only found out they had won a couple of hours later from my son Fletcher,” Heath said.
The best horse Barton has bred out of Ezee Duzit Lombo is Sanday, a Group winner in Victoria and still racing successfully in America, where he has increased his bankroll to $350,000.
Barton, the area manager for Goulburn Murray Credit Union, currently owns two broodmares in Ezee Duzit Lombo and her race-winning Somebeachsomewhere daughter, Florenceofkintail.
Since producing Kyoretsu in 2021, Ezee Duzit Lombo has left the three-year-old filly Sweet Florabel (by Sweet Lou) and the Stay Hungry two-year-old filly Ezee Fortitude. She has not been bred from for the past two seasons.
- Ripp, a Somebeachsomewhere gelding, is the latest sub 1:50 winner bred by Bill and Anne Anderson’s Lauriston Bloodstock. He clocked 1:49.7 at the Menangle feature meeting on Saturday
- On the same card Elite Stride, one of the Alabar Bloodstock sire roster, left the brilliant winner of the Group 1 $75,000 NSW Trotters Oaks in Gladiatrix
- Long-time industry participants Peter and Kathleen Ward bred and part-own Talisker Skipper, who notched his first win at the Bendigo midweek meeting
