{"id":3990,"date":"2011-07-24T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2011-07-24T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T13:45:00","slug":"eliza-park-filly-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/eliza-park-filly-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"ELIZA PARK FILLY BONUS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sexual discrimination has been around since Noah built his first dinghy, but while some mores have softened over time, the thoroughbred industry \u2013 certainly from a commercial perspective \u2013 has a clear preference for boys over girls.
Market forces and all that. No use having a whinge. Nothing can be done about it.
Well, maybe something can be done about it \u2026 in a fashion.
Leading thoroughbred stud, Eliza Park, has arrived at a rather unique way to deal with the \u2018girl problem\u2019 and at the same time assist breeders in the current economic climate.
Recently Eliza Park has announced a special FILLY BONUS to any broodmare owner who breed to any two of five nominated stallions for just $10,000 plus GST: Astronomer Royal, Bushranger, Dissolved, Sharkbite and Shinzig.
Novel sure, but here\u2019s the clincher: if the mare produces a filly you get to send the mare back in 2012 \u2026 for FREE.
\u201cIt\u2019s a well known fact that fillies can\u2019t go stride for stride with colts in the sales ring,\u201d Eliza Park\u2019s Nominations Manager, Mark Lindsay, points out. \u201cAnd obviously it\u2019s no reflection on Eliza Park\u2019s views in relation to the merits of gender. After all, Black Caviar is by Bel Esprit and Group One winners Bel Mer and Recurring were both bred on farm. And our foundation stallion, Desert Sun, is the sire of one of the greatest racemares of our time in Sunline.
\u201cHowever, the reality is that when I phone a lot of broodmare owners to tell them their mare has just foaled, you can almost sense they are holding their breath as they wait to find out what the sex of the foal is.
\u201cStill, the added bonus to the bonus, so to speak, is that there are a lot of owners out there that breed to race and would prefer a filly anyway.
\u201cSo, not only can they save up to $7,000 on service fees in 2011, they could theoretically send two mares again next year for free!
\u201cAnd, we\u2019d like to stress, ending up with a nice athletic type will still bring a good price, regardless of gender. A prime example was the recent Inglis Weanling Sale in Sydney when the highest priced of Sharkbite\u2019s first crop weanlings was the filly from Pomeranz who was knocked down for $40,000 \u2013 eight times service fees.
\u201cIt was a similar story with another first season sire in Astronomer Royal whose filly from Treadmill realised $52,000 in Melbourne.
\u201cFurthermore, each of the five stallions on offer boast considerable promise: Shinzig\u2019s first 2YOs will race this spring, both Astronomer Royal and Sharkbite have highly acclaimed weanlings, the first of Bushranger\u2019s Australian foals arrive this spring, and Dissolved is about to stand his first season at stud.
\u201cThere\u2019s certainly huge upside for any breeder wanting to take up the filly bonus.\u201d
Stud newcomers, Astronomer Royal and Dissolved, have generated a lot of interest, according to Lindsay and Bushranger \u201chas produced some outstanding foals in Ireland this year\u201d.
\u201cThe O\u2019Callaghan family, which stand Bushranger at their Tally-Ho Stud, are over the moon with the reception that the son of Danetime has been getting,\u201d Lindsay adds. \u201cBushranger covered an unprecedented book in Ireland for a first season sire and we\u2019ve been told by Anne O\u2019Callaghan that as soon as owners had a look at their Bushranger foals, they almost immediately re-booked the mare.
\u201cThey\u2019re peas in a pod and we can\u2019t wait for the first of his southern hemisphere foals to arrive in August. We see it time and time again on the farm \u2026 some breeders hold off until the first foals are on the ground then swoop. I\u2019ve got a feeling the same will apply for Bushranger.
\u201cThere\u2019s also been a lot of interest in Dissolved and it\u2019s not difficult to work out why: his sire, Lonhro, is poised to take his first Australian Sires\u2019 title and naturally he\u2019s all the rage.
\u201cDissolved was a very good racehorse and as Team Hawkes pointed out to us, Dissolved is the closest that you\u2019ll ever see to Lonhro in the looks department. Imagine what his foals\/yearlings will sell for if he throws them to type?
\u201cAs mentioned previously, Astronomer Royal\u2019s first lot of weanlings were very well received and since announcing he was coming on board, we\u2019ve field a LOT of enquiries.
\u201cI would expect \u2013 particularly with his inclusion in the filly bonus \u2013 that his book will fill very quickly.
\u201cI\u2019m confident that a lot of breeders will take up the filly bonus. It\u2019s a win-win situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

For further information phone David Somers (0428 440 330), Mark Lindsay (0416 334 336) or Phil Marshall (0407 853 782).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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