Statue takes title



Statue Of Liberty has joined our foundation sire Noalcoholic, Rancho Ruler, Umatilla, Kenvain and Encosta De Lago as a Champion Victorian First Season Sire from stud duties at Blue Gum Farm.


  

Statue Of Liberty has joined our foundation sire Noalcoholic, Rancho Ruler, Umatilla, Kenvain and Encosta De Lago as a Champion Victorian First Season Sire from stud duties at Blue Gum Farm. Marooned in New South Wales during the equine influenza outbreak last season and unable to return this season due to the subsequent travel restrictions in place, Statue Of Liberty has three foal crops from his time with us. A son of the remarkable Storm Cat from a peerless stallion producing female family, the true value of Statue Of Liberty is just being realised here now. With many anticipating his stock improving with maturity as they fill out their typically athletic frames, his record here will only be enhanced in the years ahead.

In the season just completed, Statue Of Liberty had five individual winners of seven races and progeny earnings of just shy of $300,000. This from twenty one individual starters from a first crop of 78 live foals. From his first season fee of $11,000, Statue Of Liberty already has three black type performers including the impressive Listed SAJC Pewsey Vale Stakes winning filly Elysees (ex Gift Bouquet (King’s High)), Dan Baroness (ex Weekend Surprise (Rubiton)) runner-up in the Listed VRC Anzac Day Stakes and Go Lizzy (Lin O’Dee (Euclase)) third home in the Listed SAJC Oaklands Plate. Add to that list the trio of dual winners; Tempest Tost (two wins and a second from three starts including the first city three-year-old race of the new season at Caulfield), Free Dive (not out of the money in five starts), and Rory Mor (not out of the money in six starts) and you can imagine the level of inquiry Blue Gum Farm has had about Statue Of Liberty. “It is really satisfying to see the faith placed in ‘Statue’ by those that bred to him rewarded with raceday success and in turn industry recognition. A high number of his starters earned prizemoney, some posting strong metropolitan placings without winning as two-year-olds. It proves that our decision making was on target, it’s just a shame that Statue Of Liberty’s career in Australia has been stymied by circumstance,” reflected studmaster Philip Campbell.