Aldebaran Park Update – January 2017
February is traditionally yearling sales month in Australia and New Zealand and Aldebaran Park is again right to the forefront.
We are offering two exceptionally bred trotting yearlings at the NZ Premier Yearling Sale in Christchurch on February 21 and 22 and two pacing fillies and a colt at the Australian Pacing Gold sale at Oaklands Junction on Sunday, February 5.
Lot 296 in Christchurch, Aldebaran Rosa, is a Muscle Hill filly out of the Sundon mare Solar Powered, a sister to the NSW Derby winner and Breeders Crown placegetter Aldebaran Shades and a half-sister to the Breeders Crown 2YO winner Tuhimata Glass. She is the second foal of her dam, whose first issue sold for $NZ55,000 at last year’s sale.
The second entry, Lot 390, a Dream Vacation colt, is from the five-win Love You mare Another Love, a sister to NZ 2YO Trotter of the Year Enghien and a half-sister to the Melton winners Millburn Michael and Brylin Crescent. The first foal of the dam, the colt belongs the same family as the Inter Dominion Final placegetter Lilly The Pink and ID Consolation winner Jazz Legend.
In Melbourne we will be selling a full brother to the Northern Region Championship and Melton winner Aldaberan Macha as Lot 55; a sister to Aldebaran Brandi and a half-sister to Aldebaran Jazzi as Lot 59; and an Art Major half-sister to the very promising NZ three-year-old Riccardo as Lot 190.
On the racing front SKYVALLEY enjoyed another busy month with seven individual winners, bringing his tally for the season to 18. Undoubtedly, the standout performer was Meadow Valley Road, whose 1:56.3 winning effort at Menangle made her the equal fastest progeny of her sire.
Other SKYVALLEY winners in Australia were the Aldebaran Park bred Never Never Land (ex Aldebaranfavourite) and Fear Not (ex Aldebaran Maori), while in NZ, he was represented by Tornado Valley, Spotlight The Valley, Princess Mackendon and Tarzanite.
EILEAN DONON, who boasts an impressive strike rate from comparatively small crops, was represented by the Aldebaran Park bred Aldebaran Eastwood (ex Dirty Harriet), who posted win No 6 at Pinjarra.
Some very exciting news on the international scene is headed up by Aldebaran Eagle (Tr 1:52.2and $240,000USD ), a winner of four races in America last year, will enter quarantine in March prior to his arrival in the Southern Hemisphere in April 2017.
The Muscle Hill yearling colt Aldebaranwalkabout, a son of the five-win Cantab Hall mare Aldebaran Turnpike, will be exported to North America in May 2017 and will join the New Jersey barn of Jonas Czernyson,
Meanwhile, in Sweden, Excellent Boko¸ a three-win mare, has been bred to Southern Hemisphere time to the millionaire Swedish Derby winner Readly Express. The mare is currently domiciled at Menhammer Stuteri Ab farm near Stockholm and will be shipped to Australia in May.