Close relations to classics and cups winners, in particular, those that have won at the top tier level, are always a highlight of a yearling sale.

The trotting contingent at this year’s Nutrien Equine Melbourne Yearling Sale, which will held at the Oaklands Junction sales complex on Sunday, boasts plenty of siblings of Group 1 winners.

There are brothers to the Breeders Crown champion Cover Of Darkness and Alpha Male (Need For Speed) and half-brothers to the Vicbred champion and Maori Mile winner Arcee Phoenix, the triple Breeders Crown champion Im Ready Jet, the Breeders Crown winner Just A Bit Touchy, the Breeders Crown and Vicbred winner Cruisin Around, the Vicbred champions Kyvalley Clichy, Needabacardi and Banglez and the Vicbred Platinum Classic winners Aldebaran Misty and Hes A Hammer.

The sale also features half-sisters to the triple Vicbred champions and dual Oaks winners Claudy’s Princess and Spidergirl, the dual Vicbred champion Always Ready, the Derby and Oaks winner Une Belle Allure, the Trotters Oaks winner Pretty Majestic, the Vicbred champions Kinvara Sue and Valtino and the Vicbred Platinum Classic winners Illawong Armstrong and Keayang Ignite.

The trotting catalogue boasts the progeny of numerous top flight racemares. They include the dual Oaks winner She’s An Image, the Derby and cups winner Illawong Helios, the dual Vicbred champions Kinvara Sue and Aldebaran Eve, the Breeders Crown champion Aldebaran Ay M, the Oaks winners Monaro Mia and Pizza Queen, the cups winners Heavenly Sister and Regal Pepperell, and other top trotting mares in Aleppo Midas, Beautiful River Fra and My Valerie.

There are progeny of 22 individual trotting sires in the catalogue, headed by Majestic Son, Love You, Muscle Hill, Father Patrick, Quaker Jet, Skyvalley and Aldebaran Eagle.

Other leading sires represented include What The Hill, Southwind Frank, Used To Me, Angus Hall and Andover Hall as well as first season sires such as Bold Eagle, Classic Connection, Six Pack, Elite Stride, Always Ready and Eridan.

Many of the heavyweights of the breeding industry have thrown their support behind the sale headed up by Pat Driscoll’s Yabby Dam Farms (24 lots), Duncan McPherson’s Aldebaran Lodge (5), Ash Haynes (5), Llowalong Farms (5), Michael Pangrazio (4), David Scott (3) and Chris and Haley Lang (2).

All yearlings are eligible for the Nutrien Equine Classic Trotting Series for two and three-year-olds generously sponsored by Haras Des Trotteurs.

They are also eligible for the Vicbred, Breeders Crown and Need For Speed Series.

Hard copy catalogues and further information are available from Mark Barton phone 0419 488 256 or Gemma Smallmon 0447 356 549.

To view the online catalogue log onto www.nutrienequine.com.au

Dangerous, the brilliant winner of the $50,000 Mildura Pacing Cup, was bred by prominent Melbourne breeder Harvey Kaplan. By Sweet Lou, the four-year-old is one of four winners thrown by the Presidential Ball mare Ark Monroe

Promising three-year-old Triple Vinnies continued the good run of Gippsland breeder-owner Garry Rogers when he swamped his rivals to win at Cranbourne on Sunday night. It was the Vincent gelding’s third win from his last four starts

 

  • Familiar Tricks, the winner of the NSW Foundation Final for four-year-old trotters at Menangle, was bred by Ballarat trotting stalwart Pat Driscoll, who stands his sire Used To Me at Haras Des Trotteurs stud