SKYVALLEY PURCHASED BY ALDEBARAN PARK

Aldebaran Park is delighted to announce the acquisition of the outstanding Multiple Group 1 winning stallion Skyvalley (Muscles Yankee -Chiolas Lass) T3.1.59.0MS T.1.56.4MS - $322,675.00AUD.

He retires with a race record of 47 starts for 24 wins and 13 placings.

Royally bred being by world champion sire Muscles Yankee (US) out of Chiolas Lass (NZ) and being a brother to Champion race mare Allegro Agitato (NZ) Skyvalley will be a fantastic addition to the Stallions available at Aldebaran Park

Further details for the 2010 season will be released in the near future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding young trotter Skyvalley has been retired.  Trainer-driver Chris Lang dropped the bombshell yesterday after revealing the dual Breeders Crown champion have aggravated a niggling injury when a beaten favourite at Melton on Friday night.

A deal had been finalised for Aldebaran Park Stud to buy Skyvalley from Jim Connelly and stand the entire next season.

"We've been nursing a suspensory problem with him since he won the Bill Collins Mile (December 11). It's been a battle," Lang said. "It got worse the other night. He has actually done the suspensory now".

"It's one of the hardest decision I've had to make as a trainer because he's a horse you dream of training, but it's business and he can enter the next phase of his career now at stud."

Skyvalley raced 47 times for 24 wins,13 placings and $322,675 in earnings. His best wins came in the Breeders Crown finals at age three and four, along with December's Group 1 Bill Collins Mile.

 

Go to Result Race  4   - Bendigo 17th August 2008
AUSTRALASIAN BREEDERS CROWN SERIES 10 (3YO TROTTERS) FINAL (GROUP 1)
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Go to Result Race  3  - Tabcorp Park  23rd August 2009
TABCORP AUSTRALASIAN BREEDERS CROWN SERIES 10 (4YO TROTTERS) FINAL (GROUP 1)
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Go to Results Race 6 - Tabcorp Park 11th December 2009
ALDEBARAN PARK STUD BILL COLLINS TROTTERS SPRINT (GROUP 1)
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The brilliant Skyvalley is retired to stud
Harnesslink News Room 04:50 PM 22-Feb-2010 NZT

The next big thing in Australasian trotting is no more. Skyvalley, the Victorian up and coming harness racing star rated his gait's next champion in this part of the world, has been retired to stud. The exciting 5-year-old broke down racing at Tabcorp Park in Melton on Friday night (feb 19) and trainer Chris Lang says he will not be tried again as a racing prospect. Read full article >>>