king of swing first starter

[the galah]

the first new zealand race starter,by king of swing is running on thursday at addington.Fanfare its name.

its won each of its 4 trials so far,so looks promising.

its a half brother to minstrel and some other handy horses.

The dam is a mach three mare that it looks like the butts have bred 11 foals from the 16 yer old mare,so she already been a good producer.

king of swing certainly a wonderful racehorse and seemingly very intelligent. 

will be interesting to see how fanfare goes.

king of swing was $5000 plus gst last year in nz,$8000 plus gstin aussie.

aussies obviously expected to pay the higher stud fee even though he's based there. Not sure how that works.

Edited 15 hours ago by the galah

[Spatchcock]

2 hours ago, the galah said:

the first new zealand race starter,by king of swing is running on thursday at addington.Fanfare its name.

its won each of its 4 trials so far,so looks promising.

its a half brother to minstrel and some other handy horses.

The dam is a mach three mare that it looks like the butts have bred 11 foals from the 16 yer old mare,so she already been a good producer.

king of swing certainly a wonderful racehorse and seemingly very intelligent. 

will be interesting to see how fanfare goes.

king of swing was $5000 plus gst last year in nz,$8000 plus gstin aussie.

aussies obviously expected to pay the higher stud fee even though he's based there. Not sure how that works.

Because Harness Racing Australia has applied a stallion tax which the studs just pass on to the breeders. 
Plus they implement a book limit of 150 mares.

[Taku Umanga]

5 hours ago, Spatchcock said:

Because Harness Racing Australia has applied a stallion tax which the studs just pass on to the breeders. 
Plus they implement a book limit of 150 mares.

.... and they dropped the NZ fee to make him eligible for the Harness 5000 methinks

[Withadream2]

6 hours ago, Taku Umanga said:

.... and they dropped the NZ fee to make him eligible for the Harness 5000 methinks

I think that’s been a very positive unintended consequence of the 5000 concept.