Blue Gum Farm

Two Victorian Awards for Blue Gum Farm
Rubiton carried on a great tradition at Blue Gum Farm when he was crowned the John Ingleton Memorial Champion Victorian Stallion at the annual Victorian Owners’ and Breeders Awards Night at Champions Museum recently. This is the third time Rubiton has taken out the award, matching the efforts of the mighty Encosta De Lago who dominated the award between 2002-2005. Since Blue Gum Farm’s foundation stallion Noalcoholic (Fr) took out Champion Victorian Stallion in season 1988/1989, having won both the Australian and Victorian First Season Sires’ Award the season before, Blue Gum Farm has stood the Champion Victorian Stallion on no less than nine occasions. Rancho Ruler and current resident, the evergreen Umatilla, make up the band of five Champion Stallions that have stood at Blue Gum Farm.

The season was a strong result for Rubiton who registered six individual Group and/or Stakes winners during the year. These included the W S Cox Plate winner Fields Of Omagh (ex Finetto by Cerreto), Lucky Secret (Won’t Tell, Rory Jester), Personal Ensign (Blue Gum Girl, Rancho Ruler), Rubijon (Notability, Marscay), Jamberoo (Broadway Lil, Padroug) and Stone Canyon (Best Out West, Best Western). On the other side of the breeding ledger, Rubiton was responsible for four Stakes winners as a broodmare sire during the season. They being the Group 1 winning two-year-old in South Africa, Seventh Rock (by Rock Of Gibraltar ex Ruby Clipper), the Group winning Naturo (by Postphoned ex Rubiton’s Best) in New Zealand and the pair of Group winners in Australia; Incumbent (by Choisir ex Chalonne, bred by our good friends at Rubiton Bloodstock in South Australia) and the Melbourne Cup third placegetter Maybe Better (by Intergaze ex Amarula). Trumping Rubiton in the broodmare category however was the Try My Best stallion Last Tycoon. Australia’s Champion Sire in season 1993-94, Last Tycoon spent four seasons at Blue Gum Farm and was honoured with the Champion Broodmare Sire Award which studmaster Philip Campbell also accepted on behalf of the now deceased stallion.


		Two Victorian Awards for Blue Gum Farm
Since Blue Gum Farm’s foundation stallion Noalcoholic (Fr) took out Champion Victorian Stallion in season 1988/1989, having won both the Australian and Victorian First Season Sires’ Award the season before, Blue Gum Farm has stood the Champion Victorian Stallion on no less than nine occasions. Rancho Ruler and current resident, the evergreen Umatilla, make up the band of five Champion Stallions that have stood at Blue Gum Farm.		Two Victorian Awards for Blue Gum Farm Rubiton carried on a great tradition at Blue Gum Farm when he was crowned the John Ingleton Memorial Champion Victorian Stallion at the annual Victorian Owners’ and Breeders Awards Night at Champions Museum recently. This is the third time Rubiton has taken out the award, matching the efforts of the mighty Encosta De Lago who dominated the award between 2002-2005. Since Blue Gum Farm’s foundation stallion Noalcoholic (Fr) took out Champion Victorian Stallion in season 1988/1989, having won both the Australian and Victorian First Season Sires’ Award the season before, Blue Gum Farm has stood the Champion Victorian Stallion on no less than nine occasions. Rancho Ruler and current resident, the evergreen Umatilla, make up the band of five Champion Stallions that have stood at Blue Gum Farm. The season was a strong result for Rubiton who registered six individual Group and/or Stakes winners during the year. These included the W S Cox Plate winner Fields Of Omagh (ex Finetto by Cerreto), Lucky Secret (Won’t Tell, Rory Jester), Personal Ensign (Blue Gum Girl, Rancho Ruler), Rubijon (Notability, Marscay), Jamberoo (Broadway Lil, Padroug) and Stone Canyon (Best Out West, Best Western). On the other side of the breeding ledger, Rubiton was responsible for four Stakes winners as a broodmare sire during the season. They being the Group 1 winning two-year-old in South Africa, Seventh Rock (by Rock Of Gibraltar ex Ruby Clipper), the Group winning Naturo (by Postphoned ex Rubiton’s Best) in New Zealand and the pair of Group winners in Australia; Incumbent (by Choisir ex Chalonne, bred by our good friends at Rubiton Bloodstock in South Australia) and the Melbourne Cup third placegetter Maybe Better (by Intergaze ex Amarula). Trumping Rubiton in the broodmare category however was the Try My Best stallion Last Tycoon. Australia’s Champion Sire in season 1993-94, Last Tycoon spent four seasons at Blue Gum Farm and was honoured with the Champion Broodmare Sire Award which studmaster Philip Campbell also accepted on behalf of the now deceased stallion.