Foaling Season 2022

RugbyGirl · Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:35 am

A quick story on some of the best Australian mares and their 2022 foals. Getting near the end of the season so please ask me about any Australian mares you are interested in.
https://www.racing.com/news/2022-11-20/ ... heir-foals

Mylute · Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:21 am

Has The Opera House foaled this year?

sweettalk · Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:04 pm

RugbyGirl wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:35 am A quick story on some of the best Australian mares and their 2022 foals. Getting near the end of the season so please ask me about any Australian mares you are interested in.
https://www.racing.com/news/2022-11-20/ ... heir-foals

wow, lots of fillies!

RugbyGirl · Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:12 pm

Mylute wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:21 am Has The Opera House foaled this year?

No I thought she would foal early since she missed last year but I just went through all her farms foals again and she hasn't foaled yet. Still time but its possible she may have missed again. I'll still keep a eye on the farm since the studbook wont get updated until next year.

HB1994 · Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:39 pm

Found’s Wootton Bassett weanling.

Northport · Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:55 pm

HB1994 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:39 pm Found’s Wootton Bassett weanling.

Nice looking baby. Also nice to see she had another foal after four years. She's a proven producer with Battleground, but has had a lot of trouble getting/staying in foal.

HB1994 · Thu Nov 24, 2022 12:10 pm

It’s going to be really interesting to see how Wootten Bassett’s better-bred crops perform.

Mylute · Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:09 pm

Last march, a white standardbred/trotter colt by Six Pack was born at Kentuckiana Farms. He is out of the Italian white mare Via Lattea (by Gruiccione Jet).

https://harnessracingupdate.com/2022/03 ... ntuckiana/
This article about the purchase of Via Lattea says that they wanted to breed her to the white standardbred stallion White Bliss eventually, but he is a standardbred pacer and she is a trotter, so technically would be a mixed breed. This colt is also technically a mixed breed.
https://www.drf.com/news/giwner-colorin ... orld-white

brunanas · Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:21 pm

Mylute wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:09 pm Last march, a white standardbred/trotter colt by Six Pack was born at Kentuckiana Farms. He is out of the Italian white mare Via Lattea (by Gruiccione Jet).

https://harnessracingupdate.com/2022/03 ... ntuckiana/
This article about the purchase of Via Lattea says that they wanted to breed her to the white standardbred stallion White Bliss eventually, but he is a standardbred pacer and she is a trotter, so technically would be a mixed breed. This colt is also technically a mixed breed.
https://www.drf.com/news/giwner-colorin ... orld-white

a mixed breed? didn't know they considered that when breeding a trotter to a pacer. are there any articles that explain this?

BaroqueAgain1 · Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:49 pm

AFAIK, all trotters and pacers are Standardbreds. However, some lines have become specialized in preferring/having greater talent in one gait over the other.
I don't know if the SB breed will eventually split over this, but it hasn't at this time.
IMO I would have bred her to the white stallion...and see which gait the offspring is strongest in and train them in that gait.

Miss Woodford · Mon Nov 28, 2022 3:42 pm

Yeah it doesn't really make the foal a mixed breed, they're all Standardbreds. Even now there are are pacers from trotting lines and trotters from pacing lines. There have also been double-gaited horses, some that started racing in one gait and were switched to the other and some that kept going back and forth. The double-gaited world record was set just last year by the pacing-bred Joe Joe Joe https://harnesslink.com/usa/double-gait ... ecord-set/

Breeding pacers and trotters together isn't often done but isn't unheard of. The trotting champion Googoo Gaagaa (Standardbred names...) is by pacing stallion Cam's Rocket out of the trotting mare Kora's Trotter. Googoo Gaagaa is now a stallion himself, he's mostly sired trotters including a Hambletonian winner. He is also ridiculously handsome.

I want him to drive my chariot into battle.

Mylute · Mon Nov 28, 2022 3:52 pm

I know there are lots of different "trotter/pacer" breeds (especially in Europe) so I thought that maybe they were considered two different breeds over here.

Katewerk · Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:45 am

Mylute wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 3:52 pm I know there are lots of different "trotter/pacer" breeds (especially in Europe) so I thought that maybe they were considered two different breeds over here.

Pacers have a genetic mutation that predisposes them to use of that gait.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11308

Northport · Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:50 am

Kingman X Enable

goforwand · Thu Dec 08, 2022 1:19 am

Northport wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:50 am Kingman X Enable

Great pairing, what a good looking colt. Wishing him all the best in the future.

flytpthestars · Thu Dec 08, 2022 1:29 pm

Winx isnt in foal for 2023. I read an article recently that there are fertility issues down in Australia

Flanders · Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:42 pm

filly by Kingman - Stacelita, by Monsun (April 12)

Was just checking to see if she had a foal this year and she wasn't listed here yet.

flytpthestars · Sat Dec 10, 2022 5:47 pm

How many mares for American Pharoah cover for 2022 foals in Australia? (2021 breeding statistics)

RugbyGirl · Tue Dec 13, 2022 9:41 pm

Mylute wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:21 am Has The Opera House foaled this year?

Finally! She had a bay colt by Circus Maximus on 12 November!

Slewfan2 · Thu Dec 22, 2022 4:54 pm

I’m in love with this HAP weanling, the spitting image of his daddy,

https://twitter.com/lanesendfarms/statu ... 98784?s=21