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Group
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Blue
Gum Stallions honoured |
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This
month we provide an insight into the steps we follow to produce you a
healthy foal and to get your mare back in-foal. |
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Princess
Gisella Wins Cockram Stakes |
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Statue
takes title |
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Encosta
highlights local success |
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More
positive feedback |
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Inking
the Brand |
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Strategic
Prince |
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Circles
strikes Gold |
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Paddock
Improvements |
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Park
Heiress |
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Umatilla
– Proven value |
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Argonaut
Update |
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Elvstroem’s
rising two-year-olds |
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Strategic
Prince joins Blue Gum Farm roster |
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Umatilla
Inks quality |
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Darryl
Sherer joins the team |
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1st
Stakes-Winner For Statue Of Liberty |
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1st
Southern Winner For Statue Of Liberty |
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Elvstroem
makes his debut |
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Blue
Gum's Melbourne Premier draft |
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Argonaut
Sails In |
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Kingdom
franks Kornong form |
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Aquanita
Charity Golf Day |
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A bumper season |
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Rhodococcus
Equi or 'Rattles' |
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Churchill
Downs mares |
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Caring
for your in-foal mare |
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Staff
Profile: Sarah Rose |
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Blue
Gum Flavour |
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Churchill
flying |
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Emergency
Procedure Training |
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Statue
returns to Ireland |
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Churchill
at Oaklands |
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Statue
Of Liberty The outbreak of equine influenza has created a lot of hurt right across the racing and breeding industry here in Australia. Since the news of the virus being present first broke the centre of attention has been the Eastern Creek quarantine station west of Sydney and as circumstance has it, Blue Gum Farm must patiently wait the release of Statue Of Liberty (USA) from that facility. Read More |
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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. Read More |
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‘Ride
Safe’ – ATV Safety Session Recently, Blue Gum Farm employees hit the classroom for a one-day formal training session on the safe operation of two and four wheel (ATV – all terrain vehicle) motorbikes. David Foote from Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE was brought in to conduct this course on safe ATV handling. Read More |
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Blue
Gum’s Leading Sires In the early part of this decade the stallion strength of Blue Gum Farm was centred around two great horses, Rubiton and Encosta De Lago. The ‘Patriarch’ and the ‘New Kid On The Block’ were posting winners at all levels and consistently rising through the General Sires’ list. Read More |
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Ten
up for Statue of Liberty Statue Of Liberty has recorded his tenth individual winner from just 29 runners to date overseas. His tenth and most recent winner was the filly Liberty Island who scored recently in France. She is out of Tiara who is by the Sharpen Up-line stallion Risk Me. Having landed winners on both sides of the Channel at important racecourses, the signs are strong for the progeny of Statue of Liberty to continue their impressive European racetrack start south of the equator. Read More |
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Circles
Of Gold Circles Of Gold, pictured in-foal to Redoutes Choice at Coolmore Stud recently, was honoured as the Scone Veterinary Hospital Champion Broodmare Of The Year at the Hunter Valley Thoroughbred Breeders’ Awards Dinner recently. The dam of Blue Gum Farm’s International Group 1 winner and leading sire elect, Elvstroem, as well as last season’s dual-Group 1 winner Haradasun, the daughter of Marscay won the award over Forest Pearl, the dam of Miss Finland, and High Heels, the dam of Desert War. Larger Photo |
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BGF’s
New look admin Blue Gum Farm's administration has been revamped with the arrival of Christina Sloane and Sarah Lindsay-Field. Together they will be responsible for the continued smooth running of the Blue Gum Farm office. Read More |
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Churchill
letting down Commanding a sale price of $950,000 as a yearling, Churchill Downs was quite obviously a magnificent looking young horse with a wonderful pedigree. The precocious son of the great Danehill has since added a terrific race record to these attributes and as this recent picture of him shows, he has lost none of his quality in the interim. Chock full of common sense, Churchill Downs has let down beautifully since his retirement from the racetrack and has had a steady stream of admirers since arriving at Blue Gum Farm in March. Read More |
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Elvis
adds some glitter As Some of the many educated breeders that used Elvstroem in his first season at stud are already reaping excellent returns on their investments. At the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on the Gold Coast recently, progeny of the International Group 1 winning son of Danehill were once again in great demand. Six Elvstroem weanlings were offered and subsequently sold returning the excellent average of $92,500. This compares particularly well against the sales average for the two days of the Select Sessions which was $44,566 from 429 lots sold at a clearance rate of 92%. Read More |
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More
Statue Winners Recent results in Europe strongly suggest that Statue Of Liberty, our beautifully credentialed young son of Champion Sire Storm Cat, definitely possesses the amazing stallion making genes that his immediate female family is renowned for. There are already ten Group One producing stallions under his first two dams and the way his own two-year-olds are shaping up overseas, Statue Of Liberty himself is looking a great chance to become yet another. Read More |
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Elvstroem
Lights Up Easter As was the case at the same sale in 2006 when mares carrying his first pregnancies sold for up to $300,000, the mighty Elvstroem has reinforced his commercial appeal at the 2007 Inglis Easter Weanling and Broodmare Sale. And it was in both categories of the sale that he was in demand with a first crop weanling selling for $200,000 and a mare in-foal to him selling for $240,000. Read More |
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StatueStrikes
The racecourse at Maisons-Laffitte, just to the north-west of Paris, can now lay claim to at least two famous events. It was at this site in 1878 that Joseph Oller invented the precursor to todays totalisator, the parimutuel system and it is also where Blue Gum Farm’s impressive son of the mighty Storm Cat, Statue Of Liberty, posted his first winner as a sire. Read More |
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Churchill
Proving Poular Since our last newsletter, where we reported the retirement of Churchill Downs to Blue Gum Farm, there has been terrific interest converting to a good volume of early bookings for this very talented son of Danehill. A Stakes winner and Group 1 placed in the Golden Slipper Stakes at two, Churchill Downs trained on to be a Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed in the Ascot Vale Stakes at three. His $950,000 yearling price speaks volumes for the type of horse he is and the sort of pedigree he possesses so do yourself a favour and organise a time to come and inspect him. We know you wont be disappointed! |
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2007
Breeding Tips - mares Under Lights The 2007 breeding season is not far off now and one of the first tasks on any stud farm gearing up for breeding is the organising of its dry mares to go under lights. As Dry Mare Manager here at Blue Gum Farm I wanted to run through the logic of doing this and offer some advice for those breeders wishing to put their mares under lights this year. Read More |
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Umatilla
- Standing Tall From day one Umatilla has defied convention. Bred to southern time in the northern hemisphere, he travelled in utero from Kentucky to New Zealand where he was foaled down. The first foal of his dam, the Nijinsky mare Dancing Show, Umatilla didn’t fit the generalisation related to a first foal either. He was a ‘moose’ who couldn’t support himself for days and spent the first week of his life in splints! Read More |
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Churchill
Downs retires to Blue Gum Farm in 2007 Churchill Downs, the first colt home in both the 2006 Golden Slipper Stakes and Magic Millions 2YO Classic, retires to Blue Gum Farm in 2007. From Danehill’s final crop, Churchill Downs stands at $12,000 plus gst. Read More |
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Blue
Gum tops Premier Catching Anthony Cummings' eye in particular was lot 129, the impressive Encosta De Lago colt out of the multiple Group winner New Smyrna. This colt caught the eye of many good judges and at the end of a very spirited bidding duel, Cummings had won out at $420,000 at which price this quality colt was the sale’s highest priced yearling. Read More |
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Statue
off to a flyer Just as they did in England and Ireland late last year, the first crop of our magnificently credentialed Statue Of Liberty have met with great market response in this part of the world. On the back of strong results at New Zealand’s Karaka Select Colts and the Adelaide Magic Millions Sales, Statue Of Liberty’s stock maintained the momentum at the recently completed Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. Read More |
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Elvstroem
Second Season Mares In-Foal Catalogue Blue Gum Farm is proud to present Elvstroem’s ‘Second Season Mares In-Foal Catalogue.’ This is a follow up to the innovative and highly successful First Season Catalogue and it features; pictures of some of Elvstroem’s first crop foals, the thoughts of some well known breeders that have foals from that crop as well as the pedigrees of the 148 quality mares that are currently in-foal to our five-time Group 1 winning son of Danehill. Read More |
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Umatilla
- keeping on The much loved patriarch of Blue Gum Farm, Umatilla, continues to out perform many of his younger and more fashionable rivals in the stallion ranks. Just recently at Moonee Valley we saw the winning return to racing of his very talented filly Manna Miss. This filly won the Listed Mornmoot Stud Stakes for her owner breeder Mrs Elma Cole last preparation and there is no doubt that she will be placed to achieve a similar result by her astute trainer, Read More |
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Another
season over Elvstroem and Umatilla are now easing into ‘off season’ mode whilst their barn mates, Statue Of Liberty and King Charlemagne, have both headed back over the equator to fulfill their northern hemisphere engagements. As all would be aware, the 2006 season has been a very trying one climatically and our foal photos from the past three seasons highlight the early effect this particularly dry season has had on the State. Our thoughts and wishes go out to those affected by bushfire right across the Country, particularly those in the Victorian Alpine National Park region. Read More |
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Elvis,
a Blue Star hit Although the trailer is based at Blue Star Logistics Melbourne depot, if you’re on the highway anywhere between Brisbane, Sydney or Adelaide keep an eye out for ‘Elvis.’ With the help of the crew at Blue Star Logistics, Blue Gum Farm has launched Elvstroem’s truck curtains on the highway. On the road since August the curtains have been a huge hit according to Hayden Guthridge, Maintenance Manager at the Melbourne depot. Read More |
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