This season 3yo Form

[Chief Stipe]

2 hours ago, Freda said:

Isn't it sad that a country whose racing and breeding successes rested on the quality of its middle-distance -and further - performers now has its sales series' chock full of speedy Australian breds.

That's not correct.  Assuming when you are referring to sales series you mean the race series?  Either way the vast majority of horses are NZ bred even though they might be by Australian based sires.  

The NZ breeding industry would be dead without the importation of new blood.

[Chief Stipe]

2 hours ago, Freda said:

Discussing breeding,  trends, and so on...Patrick said, I wouldn't want to be a young stud master now.  Those staying horses, not what we need,  this is the sort of horse NZ should be getting into - waving his hand at a stallion being paraded as he spoke.

That horse was One Cool Cat.  

The selection of second-rate sprinter milers that followed did SFA for our racing and breeding,  and set in motion the influx into Australia of the less-than-top end European horses that were, in the main, way better than anything local. 

What's you point?  Every stud has dud choices.  

What about the imported sprinter miners that did improve the NZ breed?

Although in today's world a NZ Breed is a misnomer given how easy it is to import breeding stock from anywhere and send mares to Australia.  They don't need to come over on a boat.

[Wingman]

There is an apparent bias to speed but the late Aga Khans grandad famously said regarding breeding nearly a century ago that "breeders must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water and that baby is speed".

We have done very well with speed stallions, e.g. Pakistan, Sovereign Edition, Three Legs, Per Incanto.  

Windsor Park have done a wonderful job for the industry shuttling classic English blood as in High Chaparral and Montjeu who in turn left us Tavistock. Their latest to shuttle is the Siyouni top class 3yo miler Paddington however flying the flag high for them at the moment is the G1 sprinter Shamexpress who is by Waikato's champion sprinter and sire O'Reilly!

[Freda]

2 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

That's not correct.  Assuming when you are referring to sales series you mean the race series?  Either way the vast majority of horses are NZ bred even though they might be by Australian based sires.  

The NZ breeding industry would be dead without the importation of new blood.

Don't disagree with any of that, but no, I didn't mean the race series,  just sales generally.