Blue Gum Farm

Umatilla surged back into the breeding spotlight in late April with a flurry of terrific results. His wonderfully brave Group 1 winner Valedictum kicked things off when he won the Listed Royal Parma Stakes at Rosehill on Golden Slipper Stakes day. This win took Valedictum’s earnings through the magical million dollar barrier where he joins Umrum and Streak as seven figure earners for their sire. Having returned from injury, Danny O’Brien and his crew have done a wonderful job with their ‘stable favourite’ who backed up that win with a fast finishing sixth in the Group 1 AJC Doncaster Handicap. On Anzac Day at Flemington, six days after Valedictum’s win, Umatilla was to the fore again with a double to a pair of three-year-old fillies, one of whom became his 29th individual Stakes-winner in the process. Highlighting the versatility of this beautifully bred son of Miswaki, the Wayne Nicholls-trained Devil May Care (Umatilla ex Destry Girl by Noalcoholic) won her third race from eight starts in the Tasman Handicap over 1,000 metres. Three races later and the Blue Gum Farm home-bred Inkster (Umatilla ex Delgara by Delgado) put up a sterling performance in the VRC St Leger over 2,800 metres which saw her dead-heat for first with the classy South Australian-trained filly Moment In Time. Having only her sixth lifetime start and fourth start this preparation, the 17 hand high filly from the Mick Price stable has done a remarkable job really. In the space of just five short weeks she’s gone from running fourth first up over 1,600 metres at Bairnsdale to a close second over 2,000 metres at Cranbourne to a very close third over the 2,500 metres of the Group 3 South Australian Oaks and on to the St Leger victory. “She is an amazingly clean winded stayer and who knows where she might end up, “ commented her trainer after the race. “She’s taken huge steps really and deserves her chance at the feature Spring staying races for which she will be prepared for after a well earned break,” he continued. Maybe she can emulate other top Umatilla stayers like Yakama, Umbula, Lisa’s Game, Strasbourg or maybe even those Group 1 3,200 metre winners Streak and Bohemiath. Heres hoping!

The judge was unable to split Inkster (outside) and Moment In Time

Named after the Champion US Lady Golfer, Juli Inkster, (or maybe the town of Inkster in Wayne County Michigan, the home state of Patti Campbell), Inkster is a half-sister to Sorenstam, the Group placed winner of six and almost $300,000 in stakes. Both Inkster and Sorenstam are from the Delgado mare Delgara, herself a Stakes winner of nine races. Delgara, whose five foals to race have all won, has an Elvstroem colt at foot and is in-foal to Churchill Downs while Sorenstam is in-foal to Elvstroem first season. Umatilla continues to prove his worth to the Australian Breeding Industry as both a sire and a broodmare sire. Rising twenty years of age he still looks terrific and achieves wonderful fertility standing at a fee of just $5,500. Remarkable value really for a stallion that has sired 29 individual Stakes winners from 900 to 3,200 metres with progeny earnings well through $29,000,000.


		Umatilla Inks quality
“She’s taken huge steps really and deserves her chance at the feature Spring staying races for which she will be prepared for after a well earned break,”		Umatilla surged back into the breeding spotlight in late April with a flurry of terrific results. His wonderfully brave Group 1 winner Valedictum kicked things off when he won the Listed Royal Parma Stakes at Rosehill on Golden Slipper Stakes day. This win took Valedictum’s earnings through the magical million dollar barrier where he joins Umrum and Streak as seven figure earners for their sire. Having returned from injury, Danny O’Brien and his crew have done a wonderful job with their ‘stable favourite’ who backed up that win with a fast finishing sixth in the Group 1 AJC Doncaster Handicap. On Anzac Day at Flemington, six days after Valedictum’s win, Umatilla was to the fore again with a double to a pair of three-year-old fillies, one of whom became his 29th individual Stakes-winner in the process. Highlighting the versatility of this beautifully bred son of Miswaki, the Wayne Nicholls-trained Devil May Care (Umatilla ex Destry Girl by Noalcoholic) won her third race from eight starts in the Tasman Handicap over 1,000 metres. Three races later and the Blue Gum Farm home-bred Inkster (Umatilla ex Delgara by Delgado) put up a sterling performance in the VRC St Leger over 2,800 metres which saw her dead-heat for first with the classy South Australian-trained filly Moment In Time. Having only her sixth lifetime start and fourth start this preparation, the 17 hand high filly from the Mick Price stable has done a remarkable job really. In the space of just five short weeks she’s gone from running fourth first up over 1,600 metres at Bairnsdale to a close second over 2,000 metres at Cranbourne to a very close third over the 2,500 metres of the Group 3 South Australian Oaks and on to the St Leger victory. “She is an amazingly clean winded stayer and who knows where she might end up, “ commented her trainer after the race. “She’s taken huge steps really and deserves her chance at the feature Spring staying races for which she will be prepared for after a well earned break,” he continued. Maybe she can emulate other top Umatilla stayers like Yakama, Umbula, Lisa’s Game, Strasbourg or maybe even those Group 1 3,200 metre winners Streak and Bohemiath. Heres hoping! The judge was unable to split Inkster (outside) and Moment In Time Named after the Champion US Lady Golfer, Juli Inkster, (or maybe the town of Inkster in Wayne County Michigan, the home state of Patti Campbell), Inkster is a half-sister to Sorenstam, the Group placed winner of six and almost $300,000 in stakes. Both Inkster and Sorenstam are from the Delgado mare Delgara, herself a Stakes winner of nine races. Delgara, whose five foals to race have all won, has an Elvstroem colt at foot and is in-foal to Churchill Downs while Sorenstam is in-foal to Elvstroem first season. Umatilla continues to prove his worth to the Australian Breeding Industry as both a sire and a broodmare sire. Rising twenty years of age he still looks terrific and achieves wonderful fertility standing at a fee of just $5,500. Remarkable value really for a stallion that has sired 29 individual Stakes winners from 900 to 3,200 metres with progeny earnings well through $29,000,000.