tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85963933991077984942024-03-19T15:01:09.923+11:00The Image Is EverythingBronwen Healy PhotographyThe Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.comBlogger704125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-56804015860919296452021-08-16T18:43:00.007+10:002021-08-20T09:49:14.461+10:00Vale Mossy<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">First off, I hate writing posts like this because they make me really sad. I have a habit of becoming emotionally attached to the horses I work with. I’ve been criticised for this but in my defence getting emotionally involved with the horses I photograph means I to do a better, more thorough and complete job.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> The horses are the reason I get up in the dark at Stupid O’Clock and drive for 90 mins to photograph a horse at trackwork or the beach (or drive 1500km to a stud farm laden with equipment). It’s why I run back and forth from mounting yard to horse stalls on raceday, even when my feet, neck and shoulders are aching from carrying heavy equipment. Why I sit for hours researching bloodlines and race records, and why I get up early and stagger in the door after midnight when doing a day trip flying between Melbourne and Sydney, or Melbourne and Brisbane.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When I got an email from one of my favourite people in the industry telling me the stallion we all knew as ‘Mossy’, wasn’t doing so well it felt like more the links with the horses that paved my entry in to the industry were getting thinner. Mossman stood at one of my very favourite farms, Vinery Stud in the Hunter Valley. It is the farm I’ve worked for the longest and they unfailingly make me feel welcome. When I drive in their gates I feel like I’m coming home. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mossy was 26, and when they get to this age you know that every day is a bonus. I know this only too well. My own Holsteiner mare Freelance is 28 years old this October. I know that every day with her is a good day and that the end could come any day now. For now she is bright and well and for her age looking remarkably well, notwithstanding the nasty colic attack she threw in just for kicks a few weeks ago. I guess she was making sure I was paying attention although on getting the vet bill I wish she hadn’t chosen to make such a statement on a Sunday evening!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vinery announced Mossy was gone several days later. The first time I photographed Mossy was on the racetrack back in 1998. He was sired by SUCCESS EXPRESS and out of the mare LICHEN LADY. Success Express was a son of Hold Your Peace, who I don’t know much about, apart from the fact that he was a great grandson of Princequillo, the broodmare sire of the mighty Secretariat. Success Express also stood at Vinery and as well as Mossy he sired Al Akbar who is the broodmare sire of champion Winx.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the track Mossy won the G1 JJ Atkins Stakes at 2 years old as well as the G2 AAMI Classic and the Listed Debonair Stakes at 3 years. He</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> finished 2nd in the G1 AJC Sires and Australian Guineas and 3rd in the G1 Champagne Stakes and George Ryder Stakes, which is a testament to his versatility and determination. For good measure he also ran 4th in the G1 VRC Derby.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGTuSsNmbQYzjLd2d9_19_6gaLa7szKm2n63EceryyjISEsxbnmd4J9lKcWSUnOLRhJi45148IBfZrd_VCOY2s9CT8gwpaUt_YXhCpPVfhGf-p8OZyNIWGeBACxbCIAbCsafmEh6VzP3o/s2048/72F6C766-F8DB-468F-9DC1-43CD9190D9CC.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="2048" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGTuSsNmbQYzjLd2d9_19_6gaLa7szKm2n63EceryyjISEsxbnmd4J9lKcWSUnOLRhJi45148IBfZrd_VCOY2s9CT8gwpaUt_YXhCpPVfhGf-p8OZyNIWGeBACxbCIAbCsafmEh6VzP3o/w640-h422/72F6C766-F8DB-468F-9DC1-43CD9190D9CC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mossy (Jimmy Cassidy) winning the G2 AAMI Vase on Cox Plate Day in 1998</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIde68DgytPrVdnP_47WY9af1RrVK3mYWtVyhDdLaDfQiFbtSGjQDGmh4syPacCiXAgOS0Eo7EBqRSW3kdS0dWgbM-_xXBrMOIjbvRTsuBz0jwxNX93cO0FsdQjV6rpTxl_YBfchxSBw/s2048/D22D8CBC-6210-419F-A006-EED07C18B4BC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="2048" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIde68DgytPrVdnP_47WY9af1RrVK3mYWtVyhDdLaDfQiFbtSGjQDGmh4syPacCiXAgOS0Eo7EBqRSW3kdS0dWgbM-_xXBrMOIjbvRTsuBz0jwxNX93cO0FsdQjV6rpTxl_YBfchxSBw/w640-h422/D22D8CBC-6210-419F-A006-EED07C18B4BC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2zsLRUT_g1IpMdVQzkliK4ekuWZmrxqj-7m6rnb-j_tN-SIR8GZoE_Qg6GIUuCLSQbnwNLoN09KzaSeyPXYWH_4mYPDicAXavNT7Ix7tUEtwlN-N6m7yCihpgieZ2kqlLmCL7PHiF0vE/s2048/DEAF682B-E778-4738-BA12-AFFE32F323DA.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2zsLRUT_g1IpMdVQzkliK4ekuWZmrxqj-7m6rnb-j_tN-SIR8GZoE_Qg6GIUuCLSQbnwNLoN09KzaSeyPXYWH_4mYPDicAXavNT7Ix7tUEtwlN-N6m7yCihpgieZ2kqlLmCL7PHiF0vE/w640-h418/DEAF682B-E778-4738-BA12-AFFE32F323DA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNSyPpkz0OxOfu4tbh23wJ5lhr7jcGge0sDHsuiGEyNRVAFhYfKKfjopGO5IegeSmq2X5bYjkWmtfFDcyKrab4SS4bw6HEEi-1ufA6UrBgq0TtSHis9af8DB34cnjHTTawhMZFlqAwuMs/s2048/F66A0E3B-E698-4690-958F-99A536EDE576.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1335" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNSyPpkz0OxOfu4tbh23wJ5lhr7jcGge0sDHsuiGEyNRVAFhYfKKfjopGO5IegeSmq2X5bYjkWmtfFDcyKrab4SS4bw6HEEi-1ufA6UrBgq0TtSHis9af8DB34cnjHTTawhMZFlqAwuMs/w418-h640/F66A0E3B-E698-4690-958F-99A536EDE576.jpeg" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfTtp_X988z-2g0GNJHRsXTl4u_3GpzdnwgIcW0YHwTwOjRnajLi8vJQf3juXzX-5NvlOxWUBqmIcxisZrvoSEUj2_-BAHatPN60hndvBMwJYgf9ZSMKoAHSpuA_B69SHibv913MfICA/s2048/33C87873-5CF3-44B4-9CC8-E2D56C4712C9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfTtp_X988z-2g0GNJHRsXTl4u_3GpzdnwgIcW0YHwTwOjRnajLi8vJQf3juXzX-5NvlOxWUBqmIcxisZrvoSEUj2_-BAHatPN60hndvBMwJYgf9ZSMKoAHSpuA_B69SHibv913MfICA/w640-h480/33C87873-5CF3-44B4-9CC8-E2D56C4712C9.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At stud Mossy was a very successful stallion and although he didn’t enjoy the commercial ‘sex’ appeal some stallions, he was renowned for throwing good, fast and brave racehorses. He was a beautifully natured stallion, beloved by the entire team at Vinery Stud and enormously popular with visitors too. Mossy had been at stud for almost 10 years when I commenced doing some work for Vinery, so he wasn’t on the ‘official’ list of stallions I was asked to photograph all that often. Regardless I would always try to sneak some pictures of him whenever I could just because he was awesome. I would always plea for more time, and more shoots which may come across as me being self interested. The real reason I want to do this, however, is a driving ambition to capture as many high class photos as I can, both candid and structured, throughout a horse’s lifetime in order to properly illustrate their life and career and the relationships they form with the people who love them the most. I can’t help but feel a little bit ‘possessive’ of the horses I adore, it’s just who I am. I hope eventually it will lead to an enduring visual history of some of the horses I have been fortunate enough to work with.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4vjRUa8QZIY4wLoNEEuz0UyuqJVFASr4J5cPMixKHn7yaJkjtetFHRBvrfDZul2EYwe_WlLocqwuKjDL9LjMDmn4hVwgOlyHp5V7gIowxtDFfD4__gzYYwx_gMFCGrMrLYhhQlWEluY/s2048/2B0C7CEB-3518-4097-8D2E-F712DD7B1ADF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4vjRUa8QZIY4wLoNEEuz0UyuqJVFASr4J5cPMixKHn7yaJkjtetFHRBvrfDZul2EYwe_WlLocqwuKjDL9LjMDmn4hVwgOlyHp5V7gIowxtDFfD4__gzYYwx_gMFCGrMrLYhhQlWEluY/w640-h426/2B0C7CEB-3518-4097-8D2E-F712DD7B1ADF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Photographed at Vinery Stud in November 2019.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWczmTS8qEVFZnaRgbAPuKx5BmOSdb56NySN7jyg16ATGTc46kMQnYUqwwLXkQVLlUsNucwKYtv8WBiTsTkCIDK3acVmpMdIH9b3zDEjNSG39bb153DX4M1ZZBPJ1w8scxXfYEwhOZOCU/s2048/CC3C38FF-941E-4D16-99EA-A15D747B54EE.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWczmTS8qEVFZnaRgbAPuKx5BmOSdb56NySN7jyg16ATGTc46kMQnYUqwwLXkQVLlUsNucwKYtv8WBiTsTkCIDK3acVmpMdIH9b3zDEjNSG39bb153DX4M1ZZBPJ1w8scxXfYEwhOZOCU/w640-h480/CC3C38FF-941E-4D16-99EA-A15D747B54EE.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend Michelle with Mossy, after the 2018 Vinery Stallion Parade (also my 50th birthday!). We ducked back to see Mossy. Michelle was a part owner of “Celly” (Cellerman), one of Moss’s many stakes winners.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the track Moss’s</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> best runner was BUFFERING, a sprinter who won 6 Group 1 races in Australia, including the G1 Moir Stakes twice, the Winterbottom Stakes twice, as well as the Darley Sprint Classic and the Manikato Stakes - ‘The Buff’ LOVED racing at The Valley! Mossy was also the sire of a Golden Slipper winner, a feat many great stallions never achieve, siring MOSSFUN to win the 2014 Slipper, and was the sire of two winners of the G1 Coolmore Classic - OFCOURSEICAN and PLUCKY BELLE.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3YcFsx2C9ILPwfeKTZ5x39RqF2nmAkuk7v0SQQRq6wZF4M2jbEBU7MdM0T89KFCuCpjy4w91NnN6yiwdnMiM89cdw5FPWRidwgtcOr_IgGimb84PKf5CauXf1lM2_KhF3n7xzxWUeHs/s2048/43CE7F2A-A8C4-4C64-99AD-41B9F17555D1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3YcFsx2C9ILPwfeKTZ5x39RqF2nmAkuk7v0SQQRq6wZF4M2jbEBU7MdM0T89KFCuCpjy4w91NnN6yiwdnMiM89cdw5FPWRidwgtcOr_IgGimb84PKf5CauXf1lM2_KhF3n7xzxWUeHs/w640-h426/43CE7F2A-A8C4-4C64-99AD-41B9F17555D1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOVE CONQUERS ALL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Sr6VhPpnC7ISvST2JNxn-8Im2EqBDbYv2qiDZKtlcyPJQOgEzLZkdoLiTAo1zzHC9Tp7e4htkPdwfSzQhpKuProNrkeJ5cJl0D4-GDwh1_dBrxW4OKAEtVD4R2nP0LqFYIEdU4c7tFY/s2048/75B9AB29-DCA4-4B4D-ACEC-09C0825EF981.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Sr6VhPpnC7ISvST2JNxn-8Im2EqBDbYv2qiDZKtlcyPJQOgEzLZkdoLiTAo1zzHC9Tp7e4htkPdwfSzQhpKuProNrkeJ5cJl0D4-GDwh1_dBrxW4OKAEtVD4R2nP0LqFYIEdU4c7tFY/w640-h426/75B9AB29-DCA4-4B4D-ACEC-09C0825EF981.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BUFFERING - G1 VRC Sprint Classic</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJL6MxzQiFQ18u4de4ia5ViWAnN-0LE6zUubeVW77ByXI9prtaUEgDygYNjI1kLh17Oo0a0hotgguHZFBmNEAfZg4VPTGFze9K8hEiqWYxRsopIXAmrMwCcuU_l2QxjL3V7UWj7zhchUo/s2048/455EDC46-F569-42BB-963F-174E4FF50836.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJL6MxzQiFQ18u4de4ia5ViWAnN-0LE6zUubeVW77ByXI9prtaUEgDygYNjI1kLh17Oo0a0hotgguHZFBmNEAfZg4VPTGFze9K8hEiqWYxRsopIXAmrMwCcuU_l2QxjL3V7UWj7zhchUo/w640-h480/455EDC46-F569-42BB-963F-174E4FF50836.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BUFFERING wins the G1 Moir</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPv3mddzysLUFG4GsQ2IHYmfFGZhaz2eyZRFMV6Huu3ySVwPxZlhHLiLGMIHcxwedbqAN9-NiUXh4gH6v1Z4XvhVsqCGiNJIbnxll5Ebuz0Ose-DY7N5oQHyTRyhtPNAZZRpW0YhQr5o/s2048/AC4375C6-DEB1-4F31-A6C5-542C7DCC3267.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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G1 Manikato Stakes</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6gH2hRbr7LdYg7T6L_vy5W9WGFE_0R-s3pGOxV1lwE_uK0AqIdXBO3kkEife0ISr5l76DPrHWWOSavq8OWleVoRfZmyHyAHqP5N1z9bjJZ8pUl0ioJV0JlY2Gjaf_JBycWBEnwup3Oig/s2048/1D6794B6-25F1-44B5-8470-33920528E5F6.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6gH2hRbr7LdYg7T6L_vy5W9WGFE_0R-s3pGOxV1lwE_uK0AqIdXBO3kkEife0ISr5l76DPrHWWOSavq8OWleVoRfZmyHyAHqP5N1z9bjJZ8pUl0ioJV0JlY2Gjaf_JBycWBEnwup3Oig/w426-h640/1D6794B6-25F1-44B5-8470-33920528E5F6.jpeg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BUFFERING photographed at Living Legends. He became fast friends with THE CLEANER</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJNW3OaNVhxQ6x8wd1I2iIKP0AVTD3sYIZgGO4fLISxCoNosZTP1nrvOszgaVuEWKfz8TR65Dh6Th_cQpe-JOP6DTd7jb7OaLkDg2xPFFxCaL3m_Cf7eg63bvhyW72MQWQK2ZxwBEBCc/s2048/14FF8C10-C72A-4DBF-971F-CC4CB621C31A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJNW3OaNVhxQ6x8wd1I2iIKP0AVTD3sYIZgGO4fLISxCoNosZTP1nrvOszgaVuEWKfz8TR65Dh6Th_cQpe-JOP6DTd7jb7OaLkDg2xPFFxCaL3m_Cf7eg63bvhyW72MQWQK2ZxwBEBCc/w640-h426/14FF8C10-C72A-4DBF-971F-CC4CB621C31A.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYpJnIMvMNNkLgWu1gdUfP8Vu1wtRaI4b0zoryJ8obbwEs9UGWjd7tQholJ9beOZMH5_g_RsxTa6obKkkMnBcG_fotM9GqE1KlldSTxVgjIQnSChsI3yeJHP0RugIIR8tiZViAA-KId_M/s2048/49A93212-B6B5-40B3-A400-0571C30C3F27.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYpJnIMvMNNkLgWu1gdUfP8Vu1wtRaI4b0zoryJ8obbwEs9UGWjd7tQholJ9beOZMH5_g_RsxTa6obKkkMnBcG_fotM9GqE1KlldSTxVgjIQnSChsI3yeJHP0RugIIR8tiZViAA-KId_M/w426-h640/49A93212-B6B5-40B3-A400-0571C30C3F27.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uurKl7yRU7XdXXwNlgFMjS54fYu4qbh2qzKB_WTTte4IJQiPvsotwUWl73oIeFiGre1AP7TpUmPZgPio_MbaUq1DPa0kwusom0pZDQzCxV4kvmu8iEaxcBbQI5_FZAtZTFqg8dP0X2U/s2048/B6F1A518-DE61-4DB6-9728-135065149BC7.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uurKl7yRU7XdXXwNlgFMjS54fYu4qbh2qzKB_WTTte4IJQiPvsotwUWl73oIeFiGre1AP7TpUmPZgPio_MbaUq1DPa0kwusom0pZDQzCxV4kvmu8iEaxcBbQI5_FZAtZTFqg8dP0X2U/w640-h426/B6F1A518-DE61-4DB6-9728-135065149BC7.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best buddies, ‘Buff’ and The Cleaner</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBXV3e_3ASII1rWsQ3QlVsPTyLv_z3FrjAGNwtT7VIgGnENMIA-1s9qkKXuj1AeAzE7Lbs3zg4SNGml5JDTRU16JC2ooLTmfPyGKF3mVLoAynKU2trdxUX3rufBE65KpU9-0z_8dU1jk/s2048/C39DF98C-5636-4ECC-8B7B-DAD1893CC4C3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBXV3e_3ASII1rWsQ3QlVsPTyLv_z3FrjAGNwtT7VIgGnENMIA-1s9qkKXuj1AeAzE7Lbs3zg4SNGml5JDTRU16JC2ooLTmfPyGKF3mVLoAynKU2trdxUX3rufBE65KpU9-0z_8dU1jk/w426-h640/C39DF98C-5636-4ECC-8B7B-DAD1893CC4C3.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-41416807189645418332021-08-08T18:26:00.004+10:002021-08-08T18:42:34.172+10:00I’ve been here before…..<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“I’ve been here before”</i> - it’s a line from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as he stood up in the graveyard about to face Lord Voldemort. I reckon it’s how we in Victoria are starting to feel, except Lord Voldemort is replaced by the dreaded phrases <i>“mystery cases”</i> and <i>“not in isolation during their infectious period”</i>. This time we only came out of Lockdown for 7 days. Yesterday we were, yet again, told we were not permitted to work at the racetrack. It becomes a little soul destroying after awhile. And it was made worse because our counterparts in NSW were allowed to work at Royal Randwick, despite the severity of the outbreak in Greater Sydney. It kind of rubbed salt into a wound that just won’t heal. And as much as we try to remain optimistic it is difficult not to spiral down into the pit of despair at times.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I often worry about how it feels for those who have contracted the virus, which largely isn’t their fault. They wouldn’t have known they were being exposed to it, and then are suddenly treated like diseased pariahs. I hate that intensely and worry it increases the stigma of the disease. We refer to them as <i>“the infected”</i> person, rather than the person who is unwell with COVID. What’s the solution - get a bloody vaccine. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Speaking of vaccines, we will receive our 2nd dose of Astra Zeneca on Wednesday, thank goodness. We had been proactive, done the right thing by not buggerising about and being fussy and saying “but I want that one” like a spoilt and petulant child, and went ahead with our 1st dose back in May while it was still the vaccine we were eligible for, only to have them make us eligible for Pfizer less than 4 weeks later. The only reason that irked me about not getting Pfizer was because if we’d been able to get Pfizer we would already be fully vaccinated, but honestly, they are both excellent vaccines and it annoys the heck out of me when people try to say the AZ is no good, because it clearly is, and no matter, by Wednesday we are both fully vaccinated and that’s a terrific thing. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Incidentally, the comedian Jimmy Rees (who I previously had thought only did ‘Giggle and Hoot’) does a terrific running comedy video series <i>“Meanwhile in Brighton”</i> which is a <i>very</i> funny little series of videos about stuck up snobs rushing around trying to get Pffffffiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzzzzer instead of A-Zeeeeee. Watch it, I know you’ll love it. It’s really only bettered by his ‘Meanwhile in Australia’ series, sadly now up to number 28 or 29, as we lurch from one lockdown to another with state borders shuttered.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And in the meantime I’m managing wry smiles at the brilliant work of cartoonists like Matt Golding and Cathy Wilcox who are doing such a brilliant work documenting the pandemic with wonderful and compassion and wit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My trip to the Hunter Valley for Stallion Parade Weekend has been cancelled, as have all the parades. I’m still determined to get to my NSW stallions in September though, and thank all the studs who support me and are willing to wait (humm - what was that I said earlier “I’ve been here before????”). I promise you that the photos will be worth waiting for. It’s all guesswork as to whether the Victorian Parades can still proceed. I really hope they can and I’m looking forward to seeing some new foals too. After all, I can’t spend all of my time photographing my cats and the birds in the backyard!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHDwH6rI_aw_dzP7HCqUTbMmxh0Nz9tUqPih4UUfblnV9hemOgxfLZ-QwIi28EtrpitMwQtGsIqsDT6x_MZWF0NxnlX8TBlol7EsAvhAme0a7vMANU7HFpZiYe0oIkgGmoIogmq7LH2I/s2048/EDE18340-D85F-4BA9-840B-F0CF05108475.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHDwH6rI_aw_dzP7HCqUTbMmxh0Nz9tUqPih4UUfblnV9hemOgxfLZ-QwIi28EtrpitMwQtGsIqsDT6x_MZWF0NxnlX8TBlol7EsAvhAme0a7vMANU7HFpZiYe0oIkgGmoIogmq7LH2I/w640-h320/EDE18340-D85F-4BA9-840B-F0CF05108475.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The full brother to G1 winner ASTERN has won his maiden. I hope I get to photograph him this spring.</td></tr></tbody></table><br style="text-align: justify;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8HJ8SP1siqOXO70cE_iWxsllhwdDuUaLoUZywbSuIA87XOAEWg7JtlobzFgGIcVz4XpTaVK4X5t7tf_WuP7BK_6GaQAEyRKpiV7Q9tN0t17j_R0PSWHbqL_r7p9cclmvU_2t2YI_8Kc/s2040/94081D92-59DB-4EC4-95CB-EAAD14C4EFF9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2040" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8HJ8SP1siqOXO70cE_iWxsllhwdDuUaLoUZywbSuIA87XOAEWg7JtlobzFgGIcVz4XpTaVK4X5t7tf_WuP7BK_6GaQAEyRKpiV7Q9tN0t17j_R0PSWHbqL_r7p9cclmvU_2t2YI_8Kc/w640-h426/94081D92-59DB-4EC4-95CB-EAAD14C4EFF9.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO2r8Uwg7EPAZzscCWntZubED_0Q_AcrcjdHIVjHMBDSEq_By7Nzhe8c-0J9add1B0DFhBMtfET5LloK_L9PPhvq1v4w4ofexKKM7jAfO_3RlMQx67EtBu32XDLa6-8bVhQTidhoWv7rs/s2040/EE27D70B-6B70-4911-8DFA-84C28D4F4B9A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He was a wonderful racehorse who sadly didn’t race on at 4 years, but during his 3yo year he won 2006 Preakness Stakes in the fateful running that the 2nd leg of the Triple Crown, where Kentucky Derby champion Barbaro shattered his leg shortly after the start. He also won the G1 </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Travers and G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup. He retired to stud at the conclusion of his 3yo year and stood at Darley’s Jonabell Farm. He was a horse that was universally adored both on the track and at stud and the farm was clearly heartbroken at his loss.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">‘Berni’ shuttled to Australia between 2008 and 2015 and his best runner was probably the gorgeous Boban who was trained by Chris Waller and won five Group 1 races. While he wasn’t as successful here in Australia as he was in American, he’s become a good broodmare sire, and given he has quite a lot of daughters here in Australia I like to think his legacy here will grow.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Berni was a deep brown horse with the most terrific amber tiger eyes. I think he got these from his dad AP Indy, because the only other horse I’ve seen with eyes like that was fellow AP Indy stallion Congrats who stood at Vinery for several seasons. AP Indy is a son of the legend Seattle Slew (Bold Reasoning) and Berni was I thought quite similar looking to ‘Slew’. Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown in 1977 and was for many years the only undefeated winner of the Triple Crown until Justify repeated the feat in 2018.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When he was in Australia Berni was based at Darley’s Kelvinside Stud just outside of the little town of Aberdeen. He was such fun to photograph and I could always count on him to give me something fun in the paddock. He was a little bit quirky and playful and a horse I always looked forward to seeing and always wanted to photograph. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-F1jVveE20IGcgW_3cSKTtj3oD9pQZAc7ePAgwlGbZV8kslcpSrO3PnGNlwjbr364BrbdqDin_lWBiimlmzXyhyphenhyphenfGMkHWQu3r-y8RpmxBOFVM7zusPMynNSzwY2XOv8e4KlOMeISnMhY/s2048/7E2EEB93-08E0-42D5-B841-05C61A8061E3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-F1jVveE20IGcgW_3cSKTtj3oD9pQZAc7ePAgwlGbZV8kslcpSrO3PnGNlwjbr364BrbdqDin_lWBiimlmzXyhyphenhyphenfGMkHWQu3r-y8RpmxBOFVM7zusPMynNSzwY2XOv8e4KlOMeISnMhY/w640-h426/7E2EEB93-08E0-42D5-B841-05C61A8061E3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There is no possible way, as we left the Gold Coast Magic Millions Sale in January 2020, that we could have foreseen the events of the next 18 months. For most of us here in Victoria that period feels like a lifetime ago, and I'm sure it feels the same for many others around the country and the world as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The silver lining though, for me, from the last 12 months, was watching with joy and delight (and some pride I might add), of the rise and rise of Victoria's Champion Stallion, who today is wearing the crown of Champion Australian Stallion for the 2020-2021 Season.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Written Tycoon was the first Victorian stallion on my books, and his home was Woodside Park Stud who were also my first Victorian farm. They have been a terrific bunch to work with and their success helped me establish the Victorian aspect of my business following the big move I made with my two children in January 2014. My start in Victoria was slowed by the settling process of getting the kids in to their new schools and life and then hit the major hurdle of getting a truly stupid and nasty cancer diagnosis in the 2nd half of 2014. It wasn't until February 2015 that I was back working again and I did my first shoot for Woodside Park on the 16th March 2015. I was immediately struck by Written Tycoon, in particular the enormous presence he possesses and how beautifully behaved and gentle he was. He's a little like Snitzel, in that he swells with presence in the paddock, gathers himself together in the perfect outline of a proud and noble stallion. And of course the other truly lovely thing about him, and working with him, is that he's always been totally without malice and working inside his paddock has always been a lovely experience.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He is the sire of Group 1 winner Ole Kirk, Odeum, Pippie, Capitalist (who’s made a brilliant start with his first runners and was just pipped for Champion First Season Sire by fellow Newgate Stud barn mate Extreme Choice), Written By (now at Widden Stud with his first yearlings to sell in 2022), Despatch, Music Magnate, Luna Rossa, Tycoon Tara and Tyzone. He stood the 2020-2021 season at Arrowfield Stud, in a 1 year arrangement between Woodside Park Stud and Arrowfield, where he served an absolutely lovely book of mares, and he returns to Victoria, to Yulong Farm, where he will be beautifully looked after and get the best opportunities in the final years of his career as a stallion. There is much excitement about the foals that will be born in the Spring of 2021 with mares such as Black Caviar, Naturale (dam of Ole Kirk and full sister to ‘Nelly’), Shoals, The Broken Shore (dam of Shoals), More Joyous, Earth Angel and Miss Helsinki due to foal to him. I didn’t see him last year, for the first time in 6 years, and can’t wait to see him later this month.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3utII9N9vGsR9T-t6LzTM-lYzRgXMS-adKO1Zgp_S3KyGPUCnDVnx8g6N2_4yiIsWGC4JH810LE6lobWiwn7HZzZovQYvQP7qTbkoXsxx7r0Q-aSMWpTQPmZvoAbdqY04x64jJNw6oio/s2048/5D086C4D-9A66-4441-9E9B-BBE57A797971.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3utII9N9vGsR9T-t6LzTM-lYzRgXMS-adKO1Zgp_S3KyGPUCnDVnx8g6N2_4yiIsWGC4JH810LE6lobWiwn7HZzZovQYvQP7qTbkoXsxx7r0Q-aSMWpTQPmZvoAbdqY04x64jJNw6oio/w426-h640/5D086C4D-9A66-4441-9E9B-BBE57A797971.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div>`<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW1IGO6dmpyOsk9YE2Q8SooR9-6Qmzu7aQvQ0lYs8C6RfGpAy3-_MHWqns8zv5D5zDcQ7BfOb_fpW9ntA9JyB4hD5_dLsXjFf9sFZcbwQqFLEnADPPED1cbAk9HA6wHX5s-f1LaVS0OSI/s2048/6F1E49AB-32CB-4F5B-8E33-66DDE373C8BD.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1335" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW1IGO6dmpyOsk9YE2Q8SooR9-6Qmzu7aQvQ0lYs8C6RfGpAy3-_MHWqns8zv5D5zDcQ7BfOb_fpW9ntA9JyB4hD5_dLsXjFf9sFZcbwQqFLEnADPPED1cbAk9HA6wHX5s-f1LaVS0OSI/w418-h640/6F1E49AB-32CB-4F5B-8E33-66DDE373C8BD.jpeg" width="418" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WRITTEN TYCOON winning the 2005 G2 Todman Stakes. He came up against some other handy 2yo colts that year. 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Pre Covid, where all was still right in the world. He was a bit of a rockstar that day.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSTcHV996k349sFxA9lZNUS2X37Vlws56nVGQ1ZGdmAd72rfPn7YeXaB3dZsjwvJVdJ1rE5RRmCPazua6bP5iqcZG1fdhnNF81wvPNrBzSFxTQrceK6zmaKzGzbMdLa-x_oiGr_bgD7Q/s2048/05FA0C68-A6E7-447B-9A3A-3AA52A464EA0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTSTcHV996k349sFxA9lZNUS2X37Vlws56nVGQ1ZGdmAd72rfPn7YeXaB3dZsjwvJVdJ1rE5RRmCPazua6bP5iqcZG1fdhnNF81wvPNrBzSFxTQrceK6zmaKzGzbMdLa-x_oiGr_bgD7Q/w426-h640/05FA0C68-A6E7-447B-9A3A-3AA52A464EA0.jpeg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such a signature brand</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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He has retired to Spendthrift Farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVNL0J7k6xaY0xtrSuCGmNwRUXwdBxF6cwIMfji80QAkwgLQ96GIfPxaNPlXdRmyLePOiCJaBznoqZt5vU-WKXK0aktcBjwyA3_RLo3BDc9JLbSVmHmjy9t2Fwu5PEEg5CK_zVKc_oHc/s2048/CD5A3368-2956-4D66-8FB3-61F0FE707E98.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVNL0J7k6xaY0xtrSuCGmNwRUXwdBxF6cwIMfji80QAkwgLQ96GIfPxaNPlXdRmyLePOiCJaBznoqZt5vU-WKXK0aktcBjwyA3_RLo3BDc9JLbSVmHmjy9t2Fwu5PEEg5CK_zVKc_oHc/w640-h426/CD5A3368-2956-4D66-8FB3-61F0FE707E98.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiut_gHfummgVFe-H3WO_aA5Ko-o_XmIe_ujTgoNWf1TxizfrVuePwF3KzLIrwJNSx3XL2iaUYNmkikiNLjdARLZ4lHo9s1xa3q69_zaXFJoCKWlkbVWTFlJY8g56OUWXMTIqo4aQcAsAw/s2048/DB85E0CD-1524-4C08-B347-2A0117F144D4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiut_gHfummgVFe-H3WO_aA5Ko-o_XmIe_ujTgoNWf1TxizfrVuePwF3KzLIrwJNSx3XL2iaUYNmkikiNLjdARLZ4lHo9s1xa3q69_zaXFJoCKWlkbVWTFlJY8g56OUWXMTIqo4aQcAsAw/w640-h426/DB85E0CD-1524-4C08-B347-2A0117F144D4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-59441847376319835932021-07-19T12:08:01.240+10:002021-08-01T10:06:09.625+10:00The Legacy of Eight Carat: From the Vault Volume I<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We have been back in lockdown here in Victoria. Lockdown 5.0 to be precise and as a result it made us go back to feeling like sad sacks. After having seen off Lockdown 4.0 a teeny tiny bit triumphantly, where we saw off both Delta and Kappa variants (evil beasts that they are - curse you stinky COVID - curse you), we had literally only just gotten back to work before being very suddenly plunged back into Lockdown 5.0 after the visit of those very nice removalists. <i>'Thanks very much!!!!'</i> we all shouted indignantly!!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A key difference with Lockdown 5.0 was that half the country also into lockdown at the same time which made us feel slightly less sad. The Victorian Government doesn't muck about anymore when it comes to outbreaks. Their reaction is swift and severe and not at all namby pamby. I just wish the same logic would be applied to Sydney which continues to deteriorate, much to my dismay. This week we took our first tentative steps out of Lockdown 5.0, hurrah for us.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, finding ourselves once again restricted to a 5km radius, in an effort to use Lockdown time constructively, I got serious on my website, migrating it from the old domain to the new site which was long overdu</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">e which also prompted me to recommence my Blog. I also did slightly more boring tasks like getting a tax return done and some book work (yawn).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The other task I picked up again was my film archive which library covers the 1993-2006 period. The majority of it remains undigitised and parts of the collection were disorganised because it’s a time consuming job, so when you are subject to consecutive Stay-At-Home Orders it’s not a bad project to get stuck in to. I used to be so regimented with my negative sleeving, labelling and scanning, but I really struggled to keep up with it after I had kids in 2001.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It got me thinking about various thoroughbred dynasties that existed over the years. One of the things I love about my work is being able to visually document families and bloodlines over the years. The other thing I love is the mystery factor of any image because I repeatedly discover years later a colt or filly can be responsible for a champion racehorse/broodmare/stallions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The names that once proliferated pedigrees have changed, which is part and parcel of bloodlines as they evolve. Because I’m trying to be thorough and it is pragmatic to recognise that one day somebody other than myself might have to make sense of my library, I've printed out race results and dipped in and out of the Stud Book to cross check pedigrees, race records, offspring etc. While I have all my facebooks, they are in boxes, and Racing Australia and Australian Stud Book websites are absolutely invaluable. It is fabulous to have these resources at our fingertips!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the early years of my photographic career, one of the really high profile broodmares was <b>EIGHT CARAT (GB) by PIECES OF EIGHT x KLAIRESSA)</b>. She was owned by Sir Patrick Hogan at Cambridge Stud. She’s probably most famous as the dam of OCTAGONAL who between 1995 to 1997 became of a cult hero, and the grand dam of his son LONHRO who also became a cult hero. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Carat was a half sister to the champion English racemare <b>HABIBTI</b> (1980 - sired by Habitat) who won the Lowther Stakes, the Moyglare Stud Stakes, July Cup, Sprint Championship, Prix de l'Abbaye and the Kings Stand Stakes (British Horse of the Year in 1983, Timeform rating 136). </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Carat was un-raced, but while her illustrious half sister Habibti was so brilliant on track she was disappointing at stud. Meanwhile Eight Carat was imported to New Zealand and began forged an enduring legacy here in the Southern Hemisphere. She is responsible for 5 individual stakes winning sons and daughters, who between them won 28 stakes races, and it has been an incredibly prolific family. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The bloodline is responsible for a raft of G1 winners from 1987 all the way through until 2021, with the bloodline having seen a resurgence in recent years through WFA stars VIDDORA, SHOOTING TO WIN, PORTLAND SKY and VERRY ELLEEGANT. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Strangely enough I only became aware of this connection when I started researching the family in the last week. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I must have had my head buried under a rock or something because I am normally right on to these sorts of connections!!</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I knew about the old stars of the family obviously but I hadn’t loooked far enough back in the pedigree of either Verry Elleegant or Viddora because unless you know the lineage of the daughters of Eight Carat the Stud Book pedigree doesn’t go far enough back to pick it up on first glance. I only stumbled across it after spending hours on the Stud Book (ok, so I am in Lockdown, it’s winter and has been raining almost constantly, RVL stood down <i><b>again</b></i> and seriously I have had nothing better to do…..). The discoveries caused me to go around the house proclaiming loudly ‘oh goodness’ and waving around printed out pedigrees and making everyone in the house hear all about it. My children’s eyes glazed over in about 30 seconds and I am sure I detected eye rolling. After this we then discovered a few articles on Verry Elleegant which has helped me fill in a few blanks. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Carat died at home at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand in 2000 at the age of 25 and is buried next to Sir Tristram. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Below is a summary, as best I can, of Eight Carat's enduring legacy, and the images I have on file of her various offspring and descendants.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Wjh87hOH90Jq948Lwi49F4blqRjUTHNu16qCXErbPMDOwNQkYbMz6GfiRQ3lij9z6PsCEn71iKfhqxJzkXq-j0mSrGgVWebuEXVwN_XR7Ohqs1Hj1FOjON-WA4yKg8kl5Cv4385h20/s2048/30BCDD2C-4046-4570-8D28-A39EDEE597C1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Wjh87hOH90Jq948Lwi49F4blqRjUTHNu16qCXErbPMDOwNQkYbMz6GfiRQ3lij9z6PsCEn71iKfhqxJzkXq-j0mSrGgVWebuEXVwN_XR7Ohqs1Hj1FOjON-WA4yKg8kl5Cv4385h20/w640-h418/30BCDD2C-4046-4570-8D28-A39EDEE597C1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eight Carat’s most famous child, the great OCTAGONAL</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUF1aw7aFlq935Q3ys9WxijRhroC0L9Rt39dqPGg2loWwq7p69WRhFa65QF_am5G6kIn6sV9HMGNVCR0Pzxgirijyd_KDbELLaJvbCrFOz3SD4fVBU1GExz6aTNGN7rsFcKRU3UUeD4Sk/s2048/Zabeel-03032008-0021.JPG" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUF1aw7aFlq935Q3ys9WxijRhroC0L9Rt39dqPGg2loWwq7p69WRhFa65QF_am5G6kIn6sV9HMGNVCR0Pzxgirijyd_KDbELLaJvbCrFOz3SD4fVBU1GExz6aTNGN7rsFcKRU3UUeD4Sk/w480-h640/Zabeel-03032008-0021.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ZABEEL (Sir Tristram x Lady Giselle). A beautiful mix for Eight Carat.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbpcxEFQhfvRtIpn01STEAnyYKkMz6b7JZZgHVMxCw-iBxFS8DIrTRLgedYuqOdwjsNB-gpjdxb6YGBdEZEzckHyQbhv5DoKn1ZiQR_mSe0HaUV4g1FmEVKLWRORkZCkglK1bHwWstl1A/s2048/DanehillAtStud-RemoveLead.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbpcxEFQhfvRtIpn01STEAnyYKkMz6b7JZZgHVMxCw-iBxFS8DIrTRLgedYuqOdwjsNB-gpjdxb6YGBdEZEzckHyQbhv5DoKn1ZiQR_mSe0HaUV4g1FmEVKLWRORkZCkglK1bHwWstl1A/w640-h480/DanehillAtStud-RemoveLead.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DANEHILL (Danzig x Razyana) whose blood worked so well with Eight Carat</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">COTEHELE HOUSE (My Swanee - 1980)</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Eight Carat's first foal was the un-raced COTEHELE HOUSE and she created a very significant branch of the Eight Carat line and has surely earned the honour of being Eight Carat's best daughter. Furthermore, her lineage has had a significant boost in the last two racing seasons, including one absolute rags to riches story, which is a little bit fantastic. Read on below for more! Her legacy is as follows:</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>CHALET GIRL (Imposing - 1985): </b> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Ok, so this is super exciting and is something I only discovered when I started writing this piece... Chalet Girl was Cotehele House's first foal and the chestnut filly was un-raced. From what I can gather from the Australian Stud book, nothing much of note came from her first six foals. Then in 1999 she produced a King's Theatre filly who was named <u>MULAN MAGIC</u>. She wasn’t a successful racehorse, and was sent to stud. Mulan Magic's first foal was a 2005 filly sired by Danroad (Danehill - this is important)</span><span> named </span><u>OPULENCE</u><span> who she was purchased by Don Goodwin - also very important! </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Opulance's first foal was by Towkay, but then Goodwin sent her to the young Zabeel stallion ZED, and Opulence's 2nd foal was none other than </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">VERRY ELLEEGANT!!!</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Amazing!! You need to read on further to THEME SONG (Cotehele House’s 3rd foal) before you get the full picture though, so read on, dear friends, read on! FYI, the 'nick' with Danehill clearly suited Cotehele House, because Verry Elleegant has Danehill on both sides of the pedigree, both through two different daughters of Cotehele House AND Cotehele House’s two best sons (DANEWIN and Commands) were of course sired by Danehill. It's fantastic stuff!!! It was after discovering this connection that we uncovered a couple of really great articles on the subject. One was written by Dennis Ryan (see below under Zed) which filled in a lot of details. Opulence was bought by Don Goodwin and mated to Zed because, according to Ryan, Goodwin liked the double cross that resulting foal would have with both Danehill and Cotehele House. And we found a 2nd article by Brian de Lore, which is also really interesting and gives more information on the history of Chalet Girl.</span> </span></li></ul></span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THEME SONG</b><span> </span><b>(Sackford - 1987): </b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">More proof that something big can happen years and years later and I’m still shaking my head at how I have only just discovered all of this. In my defence I did I uncover it myself after hours and hours spent on the Stud Book for this piece. This makes me pleased because it means I am still interested enough in what I do and pedigrees to keep looking for connections like this. Theme Song was Cotehele House’s 3rd foal (recorded in the stud book) and </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">she's</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> the dam of </span></li><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u style="font-weight: normal;">ANNOUNCE (Military Plume - 1994)</u><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Theme Song’s 3rd foal who 10 years later became the dam of </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><u>LISTEN HERE (Elusive Quality - 2004)</u><span> </span></span><span> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">She was Announce’s 3rd foal, and as a broodmare she’s the dam of a couple of handy horses, being of course the full brothers DEEP FIELD (winner of the G2 Linlithgow Stakes, and now standing at Newgate Farm) and SHOOTING TO WIN (winner of the G1 Caulfield Guineas, now standing at Darley). Deep Field has recently sired his first G1 winner, Portland Sky.</span></span></li></ul></ul></span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><u>EMERALD DREAM (Danehill - 1996)<b>:</b></u><b> </b> Righto, again, Super exciting! She was </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Theme Song’s 4th foal and a G1 winner <i>with</i> a very beautiful pedigree to boot. Emerald Dream was purchased by John Carter and on the track she won the 2002 G1 Whakanui Stud International Stakes at Te Râpa. When she retired to stud her first three matings were with the great ZABEEL. While her 2nd foal with Zabeel, a colt named ZABENE (2003) was a stakes winner in NZ - winning a G3 race and finishing 2nd in the NZ Cup,</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> it was her very first foal who’s the really interesting one! Why?????? Because it was.......</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>ZED (Zabeel - 2002):</u> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">There’s scant information on the Australian Stud Book or Racing Australia about his racing career, but I discovered more through a terrific article written by Dennis Ryan on the NZ website “The Optimist”. This came to light after I went looking for more information after discovering the double Cotehele House connection myself. Ryan says that while Zed showed early ability, an injury suffered on a float saw the horse retired when he was 4 years old having won only one of his four races. Zed </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">began his stud career in 2007 at Little Avondale Stud and from what I can gather on the NZ Stud Book he covered 131 in that first season, but this had dropped to only 30 mares by 2011, by which time he was apparently serving only Clydesdale mares and based on the South Island. However once his progeny hit the track they were becoming successful. He </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">started getting stakes winners from his early crops, including <u>SURVIVED</u> (2009) who won the 2013 G1 Makfi Challenge. After this Zed in 2013 was relocated to Grangewilliam Stud, which accounts for why his book jumped from 30 to 168. His best runner though, without question is a gangly little filly (now mare) named</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Verry Elleegan</b>t who was, to boot, out of a mare descended from Cotehele House too!! As a 3yo filly she won the 2018 G3 Ethereal Stakes, the 2019 G1 Vinery Stud Stakes and the 2019 G1 AJC Oaks. My library on Verry Elleegant has been hit pretty hard by COVID-BLOODY-19. She won the 2020 G1 Tancred when we weren’t allowed to attend, the 2020 G1 Warwick Stakes (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">missed because of the Great Melbourne Lockdown), the 2020 G1 Turnbull Stakes (locked out by COVID), the 2020 G1 Caulfield Cup (after being told we were approved to work at 4.30pm on the Friday, we were all of a sudden stood down at 7pm that night -I was in tears on race morning and went for a walk instead of watching the race...), and more recently the 2021 G1 Chipping Norton Stakes and 2021 G1 Ranvet Stakes. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s fantastic to think that our latest G1 star is in-bred on the dam and sire side to Eight Carat, and remarkable to have it occur ALL these years later. Verry Elleegant, a mare foaled in 2015 and descends has Eight Carat’s very first foal Cotehele House (born in 1980) who appears on both sides of her pedigree! You could knock me down with a feather!</span></li></ul></ul></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIAoeaXl-ZqR8-4xAkJZrpmrBE4-iwxpfr7BO6b3-zXaEHQ0nFy_wlwdAqePBc0TR1MlCNmoOWSf2if0yMnube-p3nkwTPi341mYsZEkPbsryj2rY5aD8MOPV30Jm8pCH8vihoOqgkwg/s2048/VerryElleegant-McDonaldJames-20190413-5247.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIAoeaXl-ZqR8-4xAkJZrpmrBE4-iwxpfr7BO6b3-zXaEHQ0nFy_wlwdAqePBc0TR1MlCNmoOWSf2if0yMnube-p3nkwTPi341mYsZEkPbsryj2rY5aD8MOPV30Jm8pCH8vihoOqgkwg/w426-h640/VerryElleegant-McDonaldJames-20190413-5247.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">VERRY ELLEEGANT wins the 2019 AJC Oaks. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sn92lVkIyaa-mSOqNsr4Y44zB-so-CGD_c088jKbNmRaJmnzjSwwG_X4A3aI9T9f-nTvXLoDlvHO7EZrqnlhfjcQolmpyl_HooB6edpSVIziIpDnqtmFzZ4hE5F-3UeLC7T226GlZHo/s2048/VerryElleegant-McDonaldJames-20190413-5241.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sn92lVkIyaa-mSOqNsr4Y44zB-so-CGD_c088jKbNmRaJmnzjSwwG_X4A3aI9T9f-nTvXLoDlvHO7EZrqnlhfjcQolmpyl_HooB6edpSVIziIpDnqtmFzZ4hE5F-3UeLC7T226GlZHo/w640-h426/VerryElleegant-McDonaldJames-20190413-5241.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwVILKBWvqu8LzNkCPB8KklEx0Xi-iQVRdV6HS6UH8eXgeGh-c6dwEQl-C5MIG1htx6fc-zshwmLHukt9k75mmOjLTCaXUIQoBX3vlOhstqnzMChxcaSVrM_neP4W1w_IkBq4fWBEcYS8/s2048/VerryElegant-McDonaldJames-20210327-3513.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwVILKBWvqu8LzNkCPB8KklEx0Xi-iQVRdV6HS6UH8eXgeGh-c6dwEQl-C5MIG1htx6fc-zshwmLHukt9k75mmOjLTCaXUIQoBX3vlOhstqnzMChxcaSVrM_neP4W1w_IkBq4fWBEcYS8/w640-h426/VerryElegant-McDonaldJames-20210327-3513.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">VERRY ELLEEGANT wins the 2021 G1 Ranvet Stakes, defeating old sparring partner Addeybb. <i>Also, dear James - just in the very very outside chance you happened to ever read this - standing up as high as you do in your stirrups takes all the balance out of my close up pictures (especially cause it causes said horse to raise head un naturally high). FYI...... Just a bit lower and closer to the horse's neck next time???? We good???? Bossy - this means you too.... Hummm.. and come to think of it, Brenton Avdulla - you too..... </i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWu1b_MdDUpE9GyJrdm1pA_-MEv7VUbct5CpSJdEQrJJGItjX7s5L7vRkURerk79rVlqNBbFzUg63KqypqYS6wjJwGN2T08H7TsvaB9rogc4CDKgU58Vqz3lpw9cbmS20Iemrp4rt9uo/s2048/VerryElegant-McDonaldJames-20210327-3486.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWu1b_MdDUpE9GyJrdm1pA_-MEv7VUbct5CpSJdEQrJJGItjX7s5L7vRkURerk79rVlqNBbFzUg63KqypqYS6wjJwGN2T08H7TsvaB9rogc4CDKgU58Vqz3lpw9cbmS20Iemrp4rt9uo/w640-h426/VerryElegant-McDonaldJames-20210327-3486.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>DANEWIN</b><span> </span><b>(Danehill - 1991): </b>The 5th foal from Cotehele House. A lovely strong bay colt by new sire sensation Danehill, who went on to re-write the record books in Australia and across the globe. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">He won the 1994 Spring Champion Stakes, 1995 Rosehill Guineas, 1995 Doomben Cup and 1995 Caulfield Stakes. Danewin was a good stallion, siring 25 individual stakes winners but his record was compromised by fertility problems. He covered 17 books of mares but only left 502 live foals and the biggest book of mares he ever covered was 77. Despite these difficulties, his best runners were ELEGANT FASHION, THESEO (a thoroughly lovely horse), who won the G1 Ranvet Stakes (twice), G1 Epsom Handicap, G1 Mackinnon Stakes and G1 Chipping Norton Stakes. Danewin also sired the good stayer and very popular horse COUNTY TYRONE who won the G1 Queensland Derby, G1 Sydney Cup and G1 Metropolitan. He was a complete gentleman and I loved photographing him on track in those very first couple of years behind a camera and then much later at stud at Emirates Park.</span></li></ul></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfhnS4mke1Qf5CsXntn7mIi_Ij2HmqlzAJN3HMklc2d5dVyp0kXncw09PP9o99cHgNPwNSQX5WBmRbw07NSG44FoqlIJnfG3FQLXnRnyRhnYkF2eGQ-kHyez-9ywjifvNogrn4J9_Yig/s2048/D03788BB-5B1C-433A-B233-38B854867355.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfhnS4mke1Qf5CsXntn7mIi_Ij2HmqlzAJN3HMklc2d5dVyp0kXncw09PP9o99cHgNPwNSQX5WBmRbw07NSG44FoqlIJnfG3FQLXnRnyRhnYkF2eGQ-kHyez-9ywjifvNogrn4J9_Yig/w640-h418/D03788BB-5B1C-433A-B233-38B854867355.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winning the 1994 Dulcify Quality</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzktao-YOIsuypkM0LdKNbu43_Jps69Jy65H66rGj1XKtq2e3xdm1SoPVT4LQ83sd-8MG84EW1iZETxs5Vn0mxFUEHHISBm8vhicvJhc32I_la1l4ICu0IwdhiibZdi_ZONBzvWwS9To/s2048/62CD938C-43A8-4F58-A772-38F67AAF6CFE.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzktao-YOIsuypkM0LdKNbu43_Jps69Jy65H66rGj1XKtq2e3xdm1SoPVT4LQ83sd-8MG84EW1iZETxs5Vn0mxFUEHHISBm8vhicvJhc32I_la1l4ICu0IwdhiibZdi_ZONBzvWwS9To/w640-h418/62CD938C-43A8-4F58-A772-38F67AAF6CFE.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winning the G1 Spring Champion Stakes</td></tr></tbody></table><h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpEKClpStfaNBrt-KZv31bRdWLarFQiqmMpH7vBsdOhT_ybgBAAHVMAwBw80OpSpxeMEMmypJD4l27LtIn2uCD2KzQUq3J07hv3y2gN4-cfg6YOyytI36CLM1f6E13HsM-jLyOzNl-NU/s2048/FD9EF949-D8C8-4088-888D-B66AF278D261.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpEKClpStfaNBrt-KZv31bRdWLarFQiqmMpH7vBsdOhT_ybgBAAHVMAwBw80OpSpxeMEMmypJD4l27LtIn2uCD2KzQUq3J07hv3y2gN4-cfg6YOyytI36CLM1f6E13HsM-jLyOzNl-NU/w640-h418/FD9EF949-D8C8-4088-888D-B66AF278D261.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DANEWIN (Danehill x Cotehele House) winning the 1995 Rosehill Guineas</td></tr></tbody></table></h4><h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMI4u-XhQp30g7-cJc3Sc5DVpg2F6KsYVTslL1eDf1svOfiS_LdbZijuABEiZ19Dk0A9BwjiRfEw0uhNPhjLgrgTt1VnauaSfAooaxBWjwBJ9nLBt6eOnTRbwnWrjiqWdf1S1IifGx2c/s2048/5FBF91DC-DCE4-44E2-8ABE-8850B71E83B4.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMI4u-XhQp30g7-cJc3Sc5DVpg2F6KsYVTslL1eDf1svOfiS_LdbZijuABEiZ19Dk0A9BwjiRfEw0uhNPhjLgrgTt1VnauaSfAooaxBWjwBJ9nLBt6eOnTRbwnWrjiqWdf1S1IifGx2c/w640-h418/5FBF91DC-DCE4-44E2-8ABE-8850B71E83B4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DANEWIN (Danehill x Cotehele House) before the 1995 Cox Plate. He was knocked out of the race by a fading Our Maizcay who was later found to have a virus.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjhfsxnJHSfHAqEXydnAZhctXlVkvnyKCokA-A-9zHIFYbYyAFiNMCdEGA8itZcxzPQBsAR6ykiKuq6s7FfC4JXduAlSDM4aiY2yxRI2YfwriaPMqJhQOkB_-JxVZEHpxuLfgl8HphKac/s2048/A6C49418-E415-48BD-BB92-3E5C3F8A7A9B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1337" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjhfsxnJHSfHAqEXydnAZhctXlVkvnyKCokA-A-9zHIFYbYyAFiNMCdEGA8itZcxzPQBsAR6ykiKuq6s7FfC4JXduAlSDM4aiY2yxRI2YfwriaPMqJhQOkB_-JxVZEHpxuLfgl8HphKac/w640-h418/A6C49418-E415-48BD-BB92-3E5C3F8A7A9B.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></h4><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKCLbH3fW_cmHZcEuFcrwiC52R5m-JFozcl63qWn2M2DBYHeAfNJhAouOls_S017S-2HIva1ilWwlF6SC5oW5zbanB4SIfThNtI1i6O1MT3VKiAA1Z3Q6qazlySUGuslr_7HNVGuGrTQ/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKCLbH3fW_cmHZcEuFcrwiC52R5m-JFozcl63qWn2M2DBYHeAfNJhAouOls_S017S-2HIva1ilWwlF6SC5oW5zbanB4SIfThNtI1i6O1MT3VKiAA1Z3Q6qazlySUGuslr_7HNVGuGrTQ/w640-h426/Danewin-09192011-9777.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DANEWIN in 2011 at Emirates Park Stud, where he was universally adored.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsu-T87SqvHYsqqRyQY3uM4N1Ed50IHRd47hXuaZIDwnfL1xAjpB2xLoZffQE8I7o0UX82A1BzSgLz3pf7Ryuy-rsGfS-OQSPkZAhKl8Wxlbj0mHlbvfVd-AlU432Tg0um2QoNGXpEZiU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsu-T87SqvHYsqqRyQY3uM4N1Ed50IHRd47hXuaZIDwnfL1xAjpB2xLoZffQE8I7o0UX82A1BzSgLz3pf7Ryuy-rsGfS-OQSPkZAhKl8Wxlbj0mHlbvfVd-AlU432Tg0um2QoNGXpEZiU/w640-h426/Danewin-09192011-9675.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7f27WITsfOVHIc7SD_phyphenhyphenf2tqpaQErxXj7uGnV8iodjqnbJBeQ5-2JPVmnShWi1f72H1Igj8-qNpbKeE_JChdtclXh4MgOUXNgJjA-iT2_Nv8-cgKZh23AK9dGinaScUJT8gB_HFOVlU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7f27WITsfOVHIc7SD_phyphenhyphenf2tqpaQErxXj7uGnV8iodjqnbJBeQ5-2JPVmnShWi1f72H1Igj8-qNpbKeE_JChdtclXh4MgOUXNgJjA-iT2_Nv8-cgKZh23AK9dGinaScUJT8gB_HFOVlU/w640-h426/Danewin-09192011-9650.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDosjIWkujR7wMONQQZIc-dvIGTfsHlM5xI_InLvh3MaFL24fIOPjeTXHxMIF6BT3ALaaB9TNYXeoAzSePT4Rsr8X8SWfUsLnuvK6xJX__4XojSp97McoNjT6pn0ivuxReK_oDKImO938/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDosjIWkujR7wMONQQZIc-dvIGTfsHlM5xI_InLvh3MaFL24fIOPjeTXHxMIF6BT3ALaaB9TNYXeoAzSePT4Rsr8X8SWfUsLnuvK6xJX__4XojSp97McoNjT6pn0ivuxReK_oDKImO938/w640-h426/Danewin-Ejaz-09192011-9356.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2KEkitdmTthuI_aSMaT-LorFjSKTxyL_L3h9kO-BkAzGhU0qktsfCL4D5t4pyyVpfmptb33weRZC5GusCn56UhhcRfYmcJxFagHdqeX_lN3XsGfbwAJCQX1Ap_yB6Qv7VnHJfQQw-lls/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1363" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2KEkitdmTthuI_aSMaT-LorFjSKTxyL_L3h9kO-BkAzGhU0qktsfCL4D5t4pyyVpfmptb33weRZC5GusCn56UhhcRfYmcJxFagHdqeX_lN3XsGfbwAJCQX1Ap_yB6Qv7VnHJfQQw-lls/w427-h640/Danewin-09192011-9205.jpeg" width="427" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b style="font-family: verdana;">COMMANDS</b><b style="font-family: verdana;"> (Danehill - 1996): </b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> The full brother to Danewin, he was owned by The Inghams, and he was Cotehele House's 9th foal. Although Commands</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> did not win a G1 race he did ran a good 3rd behind Redoute's Choice and Testa Rossa in a very strong Caulfield Guineas in 1999, but was very wayward behind Sunline in the 1999 Cox Plate. I have a recollection that he finished pretty hard up against the outside rail much to the objection of his jockey! Commands then went very close to that G1 win when he was beaten very narrowly by Black Bean in the 2000 G1 Galaxy. On his retirement to stud he became a very successful sire for Woodlands and later Darley, stranding 14 seasons at stud until his unexpected death at the age of 17 in July 2014. He is the sire of 74 individual stakes winners and his best progeny include EPAULETTE, APPEARANCE, BELLA VELLA, COMMANDING JEWEL, HOLLER, MELODY BELLE, PARATROOPERS. I haven't been able to uncover any more jewels coming (to date) from Cotehele House's remaining 5 foals, but given the story of Verry Elleegant, never say never...</span></li></ul></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF71v87nV9A30RaWKY0yYxFVeZLoc9PuWuWJnnNAw-LgvdcWrqxNQXzX0K48rTQqIbi3p9yXK5u3YN9icWcpdYJpQSck2qcmK8I_IwS5TCo3rbIKeYTM3bStBqJCCokU_91ejpYZ2piIM/s2048/3391CD87-3A5F-4665-8F6F-CAE7856A9235.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1329" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF71v87nV9A30RaWKY0yYxFVeZLoc9PuWuWJnnNAw-LgvdcWrqxNQXzX0K48rTQqIbi3p9yXK5u3YN9icWcpdYJpQSck2qcmK8I_IwS5TCo3rbIKeYTM3bStBqJCCokU_91ejpYZ2piIM/w416-h640/3391CD87-3A5F-4665-8F6F-CAE7856A9235.jpeg" width="416" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">COMMANDS (Danewin x Cotehele House)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtXB5iMiZTAKlt1DBPxM0BDsXILpI33o_Ut1fyaECDZVvYG1Wl99HonpAenikPzFkCkCb93NOl76rTCFVS4XEtxanye_J2Q67AlXYEWBXkmxYXZh-IspvBIGgxcpBAXdt2aUVnufvehM/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtXB5iMiZTAKlt1DBPxM0BDsXILpI33o_Ut1fyaECDZVvYG1Wl99HonpAenikPzFkCkCb93NOl76rTCFVS4XEtxanye_J2Q67AlXYEWBXkmxYXZh-IspvBIGgxcpBAXdt2aUVnufvehM/w640-h426/Commands-CassidyLarry-07072013-0007.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">COMMANDS running the closest of 2nd's to the very good sprinter of the day, BLACK BEAN, in the 2000 G1 Galaxy at Royal Randwick. He was ridden by Larry Cassidy that day, and defeated by Brett Prebble (who's still riding so brilliantly) on Black Bean.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody></tbody></table></h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQ2lPDGa_dHrbZMcE2uJIdWxZT432qjhjWmx_aeVzEc579Ei9i0Dco6nMMc8abcG78vALCRhwEGT7Ftbfl08-PcDFC_gMGZxYMZBbVvw4uyKJbB680LTkB4ie4XJdxOYQlX67IucVn5g/s2048/Commands-08292010-1777.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQ2lPDGa_dHrbZMcE2uJIdWxZT432qjhjWmx_aeVzEc579Ei9i0Dco6nMMc8abcG78vALCRhwEGT7Ftbfl08-PcDFC_gMGZxYMZBbVvw4uyKJbB680LTkB4ie4XJdxOYQlX67IucVn5g/w640-h426/Commands-08292010-1777.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous stallion COMMANDS at his home Darley Kelvinside</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrx78CmlDiA7PcbwTSUqiymFGuJny6QIiQ_CwWT0Js07ICNlpqaREu9xkuW22EYf_PnFeY1s3VT45mFigbBs5wF2Q6RheJ8Wsb36h7GS8Mxn2MS34Z_N3mcnlnXTWkztL7-1azWtZPgs/s2048/Commands-08292010-1764.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrx78CmlDiA7PcbwTSUqiymFGuJny6QIiQ_CwWT0Js07ICNlpqaREu9xkuW22EYf_PnFeY1s3VT45mFigbBs5wF2Q6RheJ8Wsb36h7GS8Mxn2MS34Z_N3mcnlnXTWkztL7-1azWtZPgs/w640-h426/Commands-08292010-1764.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzeIjtLFFXgf6GFWGS6kkce3eQKchTXQx0bIyDAAhjwqsxoGeZ_pxf-XAhprqRK-B9CXcrBLZpMOxMLaNveDbrTaoMsV15ZVYOrBIV3x_DlAR4kTXnsR2YbOomBL6lhy8ig5IT5UU_Vw8/s2048/Commands-08242013-2679.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzeIjtLFFXgf6GFWGS6kkce3eQKchTXQx0bIyDAAhjwqsxoGeZ_pxf-XAhprqRK-B9CXcrBLZpMOxMLaNveDbrTaoMsV15ZVYOrBIV3x_DlAR4kTXnsR2YbOomBL6lhy8ig5IT5UU_Vw8/w480-h640/Commands-08242013-2679.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">OUR DIAMOND LOVER (Sticks and Stones - 1982)</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back to Eight Carat. Her 2nd foal (also known as Diamond Lover) was another un-raced daughter but at stud she was a successful broodmare. Her progeny of note were</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">ANTWERP (Sir Tristram - 1988): The first foal from Our Diamond Lover (and un-raced), at stud she produced </span><b>VISCOUNT</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (Quest for Fame - 1998), winner of the 2001 G1 AJC Sires, G1 Champagne Stakes and G1 George Main Stakes. He disappointed behind champion LONHRO in the G1 Caulfield Guineas, but was then only narrowly beaten (when squeezed in between Northerly and Sunline) into 3rd place in the 2001 WS Cox Plate. He went on to become a handy stallion at Woodlands Stud, his best runners being </span><b>KIDNAPPED</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (G1 SA Derby) and </span><b>NEROLI</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (G1 Queen of the Turf Stakes).</span></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b style="font-family: verdana;">TRISTALOVE</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (Sir Tristram - 1990): Terrific little racemare, Tristalove was a dual G1 winner, taking the 1993 AJC Sires and the 1994 Australasian Oaks. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">She then became a good broodmare and was the dam of the stakes-winning full brothers VIKING RULER and KEMPINSKY. They were both sired by Danehill, and Viking Ruler</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> won the G1 Spring Champion Stakes. I didn’t photograph the colt racing but did see him at Cambridge Stud. Kempinsky was an attractive bay colt and while</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> he didn’t win at Group 1 level</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> he did defeat fellow Danehill colt Elvstroem in the G2 AAMI Vase on Cox Plate Day. Elvstroem, a very fine racehorse who won 5 G1 races, then defeated Kempinsky in their next race, the G1 Victoria Derby. I’m not actually sure where he stood at stud following his retirement.</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCLPIciHFTU_c9V-HiwX5Liu7_epxSgxsL6awonyN3kpgkhz9Hey_E-pI9rudeZ9R06-Zc8__yQeHCO44Uh_2sINBUbcLn7-IIBXdasfeNYl3Xk7cvXrQsXD5nqKazfq2ft2UzIz5gjo/s2048/DAF2938B-FE6D-4F10-B764-40A12BA57163.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCLPIciHFTU_c9V-HiwX5Liu7_epxSgxsL6awonyN3kpgkhz9Hey_E-pI9rudeZ9R06-Zc8__yQeHCO44Uh_2sINBUbcLn7-IIBXdasfeNYl3Xk7cvXrQsXD5nqKazfq2ft2UzIz5gjo/w640-h418/DAF2938B-FE6D-4F10-B764-40A12BA57163.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TRISTALOVE in the autumn of 1994</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXL9QC0ocF9novOJAs6znxmzbJVF6rBB1uPY-IXn77jGbziNYbfTg1D-pJal7_nU8ZHDnqj1VxL1e7ikENCRhhjYYkh_FM_60-BIvy0N66XRVW1domS0ZxueXEGfVRY4dRSDxNOiZyF8/s2048/754DEB03-A68B-4FE3-A0D2-5A5AB4FA30ED.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXL9QC0ocF9novOJAs6znxmzbJVF6rBB1uPY-IXn77jGbziNYbfTg1D-pJal7_nU8ZHDnqj1VxL1e7ikENCRhhjYYkh_FM_60-BIvy0N66XRVW1domS0ZxueXEGfVRY4dRSDxNOiZyF8/w640-h418/754DEB03-A68B-4FE3-A0D2-5A5AB4FA30ED.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TRISTALOVE before the 1994 Cox Plate</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jSxvxsxCaQTVvAhG1l-BY5pds5-M6rOAxMgzNbSbfpVPFDahZHp7bMLpUoS4sI0aQWhsiwjq2ur-vhEpqUYvaK6br-LYwd6buwfVcDyLBf6tiT6aF6-PI2Vtlx-pjeyPqBaBAQQFWzo/s2048/BFE0FAE5-6B0E-41FB-8982-354A097F04DE.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jSxvxsxCaQTVvAhG1l-BY5pds5-M6rOAxMgzNbSbfpVPFDahZHp7bMLpUoS4sI0aQWhsiwjq2ur-vhEpqUYvaK6br-LYwd6buwfVcDyLBf6tiT6aF6-PI2Vtlx-pjeyPqBaBAQQFWzo/w640-h418/BFE0FAE5-6B0E-41FB-8982-354A097F04DE.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">KEMPINSKY (Danehill x Tristalove) defeats multiple G1 winner Elvstroem in the G2 AAMI Vase. He finished 2nd behind Elvstroem in the G1 Victoria Derby at his next start.</span><br style="text-align: justify;" /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><ul style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">PERUZZI (Zabeel - 1992): <span style="font-weight: normal;">The 5th foal from Our Diamond Lover, she won the G3 Tramway and the G2 Light Fingers Stakes. Still digging up pictures of her, I will add them soon.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><b>DON EDUARDO</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (Zabeel - 1998): The 8th foal from Our Diamond Lover, and another by Zabeel, Don Eduardo was therefore closely related to Octagonal and Mouawad and he sold for $2.7m as a yearling. Under the stewardships of trainer Lee Freedman the colt won the G1 AJC Derby and while not a wildly successful stallion he did sire a number of stakeswinners including the G1 winner </span><b>BOOMING</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> in NZ.</span></li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UYAPGOYgPsz4BSq2lKFnmgGvRe6ijB_jYXIXVJ4jfK5gDmnFmTDlg3VgianXgeXhNstMyddqbiuIfJuWqO_bdKkwVT6px2H-kowxs5ADZKSbA6a0I4OtmYpFrfhz5LiDxRvYEQZmJB0/s2048/CD271295-610E-450E-A5FE-4B585CABDEAF.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UYAPGOYgPsz4BSq2lKFnmgGvRe6ijB_jYXIXVJ4jfK5gDmnFmTDlg3VgianXgeXhNstMyddqbiuIfJuWqO_bdKkwVT6px2H-kowxs5ADZKSbA6a0I4OtmYpFrfhz5LiDxRvYEQZmJB0/w640-h418/CD271295-610E-450E-A5FE-4B585CABDEAF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damien Oliver urges DON EDUARDO to victory in the 2002 AJC Derby, defeating Carnegie Express.</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">KAAPSTAD (Sir Tristram - 1984):</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Carat's 3rd foal was KAAPSTAD. He was a bay stallion who stood at Windsor Park Stud until his death at 21 years in 2006. He won the G1 VRC Sires Produce Stakes in 1987 and the G2 Ascot Vale Stakes as well (now classified as a G1 race). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He was the sire of 43 individual stakes winners including G1 winners su</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ch as </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">GOLDEN SWORD</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (Epsom Handicap, Toorak Handicap), </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">CATALAN OPENING</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (Doncaster Handicap) - also in the process of digging up his photos, </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">KAAPTIVE EDITION</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (BMW Tancred Stakes and ARC Sires, and stallion) and </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SPRINT BY</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (Doncaster Handicap). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kaapstad was also a good broodmare sire. His daughters included MISS PRIORITY, a half sister to champion galloper Might and Power and dam of champion HK galloper LUCKY OWNERS. Kaapstad is also the sire of MULAN PRINCESS, a half sister to Falkilk. Mulan Princess left the 2013 G1 AJC Oaks winner </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">ROYAL DESCENT </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Redoute’s Choice).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJZr_1S3oP9E_qXsPw8yrp09AoZiknOvWthT_GqlKnYBpd_1cm0fVuBpRXFLfhlFzh_S_5HJGlR1MhUjKorJ6umRFWxBNeUSOTUVfLGqpqw73tAJIxnbwUNgl5gYwuaXWDEBXMFvqQ44/s2048/RoyalDescent-10042013-5246.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJZr_1S3oP9E_qXsPw8yrp09AoZiknOvWthT_GqlKnYBpd_1cm0fVuBpRXFLfhlFzh_S_5HJGlR1MhUjKorJ6umRFWxBNeUSOTUVfLGqpqw73tAJIxnbwUNgl5gYwuaXWDEBXMFvqQ44/w640-h480/RoyalDescent-10042013-5246.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I always loved ROYAL DESCENT. She was beautiful and always tried so hard. She was unlucky not to win another couple of G1 races. She went so close to being a multiple G1 winner after very narrow 2nds in the G1 Turnbull, G1 George Main, G1 Doncaster and Epsom Handicaps as well as a string of other placings at G1 level.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjasu0zq-rR54488hp4zE_CPhAQsK86ZsWjSKT_OhBt6u_GAtdMD2H5miLmrJqUBfZz1OlliLPzhyphenhyphen0l66JJFyPDIiptLq4Z-wAlQ7fIpSQolMVb8fvdZbdezpTOpD6Bt-ECZOUahXvZ4/s2048/RoyalDescent-RawillerNash-04202013-DSC_8319.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjasu0zq-rR54488hp4zE_CPhAQsK86ZsWjSKT_OhBt6u_GAtdMD2H5miLmrJqUBfZz1OlliLPzhyphenhyphen0l66JJFyPDIiptLq4Z-wAlQ7fIpSQolMVb8fvdZbdezpTOpD6Bt-ECZOUahXvZ4/w640-h480/RoyalDescent-RawillerNash-04202013-DSC_8319.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHVRSWGKTHDdsN2wyhFeNoX85XbEF4DfMBDrquFdQQm7wLTnGZ5ImG0Qp-7hdz2V51oS683kKpfxJE3JPuILMqa6P1sZQ4WTKBwKGbSC9RmAxz9sSuK1t30T3yHBeAU5GclB1noRUyd4/s2048/RoyalDescent-RawillerNash-04202013-DSC_8336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHVRSWGKTHDdsN2wyhFeNoX85XbEF4DfMBDrquFdQQm7wLTnGZ5ImG0Qp-7hdz2V51oS683kKpfxJE3JPuILMqa6P1sZQ4WTKBwKGbSC9RmAxz9sSuK1t30T3yHBeAU5GclB1noRUyd4/w640-h426/RoyalDescent-RawillerNash-04202013-DSC_8336.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h4><span style="font-family: verdana;">OUR MARQUISE (Gold and Ivory - 1991):</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Carat's 7th foal was Our Marquise. She's not been quite as successful but was the dam of G1 winner <b>SHOWER OF ROSES</b>, who in turn didn't get her chance at stud because she died in 2005. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMzuQLixwYswmWd7IZUCFuzUDTo8ceE95pRdjwWdwfo__XXNKXpLgPt2XfcuVsid3_Tx_CNHpZ26B4TBZUtEMTbyGuZbVvF1NYscZhC1GfsFEMONiwx9XpfRQH5o52-Ton_dsECGIkGA/s2048/EC43860E-BF7B-4061-A4B9-82FFB348ED7B.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMzuQLixwYswmWd7IZUCFuzUDTo8ceE95pRdjwWdwfo__XXNKXpLgPt2XfcuVsid3_Tx_CNHpZ26B4TBZUtEMTbyGuZbVvF1NYscZhC1GfsFEMONiwx9XpfRQH5o52-Ton_dsECGIkGA/w640-h480/EC43860E-BF7B-4061-A4B9-82FFB348ED7B.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SHOWER OF ROSES (Zabeel x Our Marquise) wins the G1 Arrowfield Stud Storm Queen Stakes.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><h4><span style="font-family: verdana;">OCTAGONAL (Zabeel - 1992):</span></h4></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ahhhhh... now here's a horse. Eight Carat's 8th foal, the great OCTAGONAL. We used to call him <i>'Occy' </i>and <i>'The Big O'</i> and in my time photographing thoroughbreds he was the first thoroughbred I saw in the flesh who created a mass following. It was fantastic theatre. Fans would dress in the cerise colours of his owners, the people 'Chicken Kings' Bob and Jack Ingham. Debbie Kepitis (part owner of Winx) is Bob's daughter and that's a nice little connection to past greatness I like to think.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtH0bbwVhlpk0kyKezusmTAnfyoaiPhvWx6CE7x1xIQuyBqY9roH4bW0DOIAaR9hbeXxwX1bgMMgFaIz03tWLsRggZ1VIN-H7vQpVOJQS3LpBvzaqQysgfjERre9wpadnv2h71RgWNgFI/s2048/DE0C75D8-BDB6-4A50-9973-41D92A2110E0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtH0bbwVhlpk0kyKezusmTAnfyoaiPhvWx6CE7x1xIQuyBqY9roH4bW0DOIAaR9hbeXxwX1bgMMgFaIz03tWLsRggZ1VIN-H7vQpVOJQS3LpBvzaqQysgfjERre9wpadnv2h71RgWNgFI/w640-h480/DE0C75D8-BDB6-4A50-9973-41D92A2110E0.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Octagonal was black (or bloody well almost black), very glamorous, and incredibly popular. I loved him to bits. I saw him for the last time on 4 September 2016, only a month before he died. I was a little bit overcome at seeing him again and got pretty teary because I hadn't seen him since probably 2010? He died on Caulfield Cup morning, and the stud manager phoned to tell me before it went to press and I cried all the way to the track. He had that sort of effect on people. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When Occy was racing I had only picked up a camera a few years earlier and so in reality I was a pretty inexperienced photographer. The 1995 Golden S</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">lipper was important because FLYING SPUR won and a raw black colt that was Occy flashed home for second. From a long term perspective, 3rd in the Slipper that year, for kicks, was a little filly called Millrich and she found fame </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">years</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> later as the dam of REDZEL who incidentally was her very last foal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdm-keVH33l5jFnPEi_1zD5OpkuLERwOYhH8Kd4B6poIZVzF0VP0FTe9hyKgeJT7Od_qJTzRBH0vwO5xmwDHPursDG9J1r09_9U-G59QEvbUt6Gx4k-DdlhKXdSSgO-A711h_LaKj4vw/s2048/839A0C09-0E61-46B3-B9ED-CDA68A046607.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv34lIkDeYIbvGAZvEZtctdQptC4lhp8RYOxzVMs_ir19pa8qvr6qhZOr3Td1IDeEOsDEHeqJLvUGTU8bIV5qW3Ft8B40ai4pNzbZ-gmhAzjdzAn_kFttk1VnP8JYhPNYZ_lkHRM2lBIs/s2048/0AF22971-4C71-4295-91D3-6F990AB2FD10.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1389" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv34lIkDeYIbvGAZvEZtctdQptC4lhp8RYOxzVMs_ir19pa8qvr6qhZOr3Td1IDeEOsDEHeqJLvUGTU8bIV5qW3Ft8B40ai4pNzbZ-gmhAzjdzAn_kFttk1VnP8JYhPNYZ_lkHRM2lBIs/w640-h434/0AF22971-4C71-4295-91D3-6F990AB2FD10.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OCTAGONAL finishes hard for 2nd to FLYING SPUR in the 1995 Golden Slipper. This was the 1st time I photographed the colt known as Occy. He wore the black Ingham silks in this race because he was the stable’s 2nd pick behind race favourite STRATEGIC.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT2VXL0JaPZtwHhyphenhyphen0dQmkMpHZcIh88fguz_88U3G7m42RAbymLvs7eNG2y54VbDE6ougvMrG3RUtZLiP9qukGBwakySJmumRR8_9gS0EcGk25s0fAzpU3xTp2YYDR2nU1T6NzOGwx_tt8/s2048/246D6093-D415-4744-9C0B-A4F958AD9843.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1389" data-original-width="2048" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT2VXL0JaPZtwHhyphenhyphen0dQmkMpHZcIh88fguz_88U3G7m42RAbymLvs7eNG2y54VbDE6ougvMrG3RUtZLiP9qukGBwakySJmumRR8_9gS0EcGk25s0fAzpU3xTp2YYDR2nU1T6NzOGwx_tt8/w640-h434/246D6093-D415-4744-9C0B-A4F958AD9843.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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The 1996 Rosehill Guineas. Octagonal defeated Saintly, Nothin’ Leica Dane and Filante.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguPVd2TXEFdVQX2gZTEvGHQfrJh4Z8YTx1i2Rvuq2JFcyS2dT9SqQuJjpWhoVLCNpgvak72AtO-DXCp4lPbfzVY6H2UEVnbVatYQPzLWfscLAy9m-geIMmG4Ax23l6Sx6AMSnNQ5AsNeU/s2048/7ED537B7-5C1B-40CE-AE36-6DD4B1F5EC9D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="2048" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguPVd2TXEFdVQX2gZTEvGHQfrJh4Z8YTx1i2Rvuq2JFcyS2dT9SqQuJjpWhoVLCNpgvak72AtO-DXCp4lPbfzVY6H2UEVnbVatYQPzLWfscLAy9m-geIMmG4Ax23l6Sx6AMSnNQ5AsNeU/w640-h420/7ED537B7-5C1B-40CE-AE36-6DD4B1F5EC9D.jpeg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdm-keVH33l5jFnPEi_1zD5OpkuLERwOYhH8Kd4B6poIZVzF0VP0FTe9hyKgeJT7Od_qJTzRBH0vwO5xmwDHPursDG9J1r09_9U-G59QEvbUt6Gx4k-DdlhKXdSSgO-A711h_LaKj4vw/s2048/839A0C09-0E61-46B3-B9ED-CDA68A046607.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdm-keVH33l5jFnPEi_1zD5OpkuLERwOYhH8Kd4B6poIZVzF0VP0FTe9hyKgeJT7Od_qJTzRBH0vwO5xmwDHPursDG9J1r09_9U-G59QEvbUt6Gx4k-DdlhKXdSSgO-A711h_LaKj4vw/w480-h640/839A0C09-0E61-46B3-B9ED-CDA68A046607.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYz5B5vwRX_X_DSCBCMm8gQl4x7omCr0uFwObVHWpQ8Fsbw2qBme5-s_ZSG_U694ldUBonuMA2Ih239qhQzO56GXRXTO4B5rmvNDaKBhPdD5zARlKchm466YckDCJuhlrgXrS2Yd0qllU/s2048/B183ADBB-4596-48E8-A59B-91025F3E1354.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYz5B5vwRX_X_DSCBCMm8gQl4x7omCr0uFwObVHWpQ8Fsbw2qBme5-s_ZSG_U694ldUBonuMA2Ih239qhQzO56GXRXTO4B5rmvNDaKBhPdD5zARlKchm466YckDCJuhlrgXrS2Yd0qllU/w640-h418/B183ADBB-4596-48E8-A59B-91025F3E1354.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But back to Occy. Where do I start? I admit that my heart instantly runs away with me, committing that huge sin I was told I am so guilty of, because I get too emotionally involved with the horses. He was a super racehorse. Gutsy as they came, determined, black, and beautiful. Oh, did I mention yet that he was black (well, almost)?? He had the most gorgeous refined head and there was nothing that you couldn't like about him (well, that is, apart from perhaps his capacity to make you want to collapse with anxiety about whether he would win as he came with those withering runs to get there on the line). I remember coming to Melbourne, sick with anticipation before <i>that</i> 1997 Australian Cup win, my little brother shouting excitedly to me when I collapsed back in the door <i>'Did Octagonal win?? Did Octagonal win?????' </i>to which thankfully I could say <i>'Yes, he did!!!!'. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLVMgHqotsmUTDenMqLiUvYz6lO-j3k4qiXBA2RhW5w-boWfuHMZ4fa2MQKcc5dqvblC3x-RphsMwBW7dSf0wDUDdbwlQm97yDv_BiDnj443krOkiQ8LEKnF8UBra4EOCVDg1gzcbxpE/s2048/0C078DCF-5A73-44D9-B97F-51CE8132BF55.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLVMgHqotsmUTDenMqLiUvYz6lO-j3k4qiXBA2RhW5w-boWfuHMZ4fa2MQKcc5dqvblC3x-RphsMwBW7dSf0wDUDdbwlQm97yDv_BiDnj443krOkiQ8LEKnF8UBra4EOCVDg1gzcbxpE/w640-h480/0C078DCF-5A73-44D9-B97F-51CE8132BF55.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1997 G1 Australian Cup. He was ridden by Shane Dye during this campaign. Heart stopping stuff.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcESU8O79fOQe5DMhdRT3SmeoQGzuORpdb134EQCFlh7LmIsT468NRPkNyaXbXif8vxwmp2MjUK6ir3ngSOfocVJMbYAXq6WQx3C3Olq9_OpO4FZ17aZWkKeNxHCaPqypeCZB3vZHzE3g/s2048/9AFF5D46-0226-41C7-822A-03A2D00A64D0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1319" data-original-width="2048" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcESU8O79fOQe5DMhdRT3SmeoQGzuORpdb134EQCFlh7LmIsT468NRPkNyaXbXif8vxwmp2MjUK6ir3ngSOfocVJMbYAXq6WQx3C3Olq9_OpO4FZ17aZWkKeNxHCaPqypeCZB3vZHzE3g/w640-h412/9AFF5D46-0226-41C7-822A-03A2D00A64D0.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They dressed up for him</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-RLCV_rin1Uw0yv0eu2ZQKZ_j0bp1Mbcpr6QleJHXnFKripaVOphMKzrnV5fRx9tdI-qdyn8HdxVtVbw-v9riGzX6bUiVSUrOQYaNm4-NLWCc_uoMsHMl2WpQw7Qtrj2uB0RX3W1zrA/s2048/9F38F61C-8D03-40A2-B321-9C42C9DDC818.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-RLCV_rin1Uw0yv0eu2ZQKZ_j0bp1Mbcpr6QleJHXnFKripaVOphMKzrnV5fRx9tdI-qdyn8HdxVtVbw-v9riGzX6bUiVSUrOQYaNm4-NLWCc_uoMsHMl2WpQw7Qtrj2uB0RX3W1zrA/w640-h418/9F38F61C-8D03-40A2-B321-9C42C9DDC818.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSunMHDetapi-Jbd94N4ALc6nYXIfWeLSS45h_qMq1Go2iqi336k_NnLAbhFLVMxWGPNfWRPCfHFh8K_oSDfzedBH5DCM8m0-voi0Rh45X_Lf1sdgx1vxgezqEmhwPPIJzGlo3-nBEbgk/s2048/1459C305-5266-4549-8A6F-DCFA513C8427.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSunMHDetapi-Jbd94N4ALc6nYXIfWeLSS45h_qMq1Go2iqi336k_NnLAbhFLVMxWGPNfWRPCfHFh8K_oSDfzedBH5DCM8m0-voi0Rh45X_Lf1sdgx1vxgezqEmhwPPIJzGlo3-nBEbgk/w640-h418/1459C305-5266-4549-8A6F-DCFA513C8427.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Octagonal won a total of 10 G1 races (with 2nds in the 1995 Golden Slipper, AJC Sires and Victoria Derby. His G1 wins were the 1995 Champagne, 1995 WS Cox Plate (defeating Mahogany), 1996 Canterbury Guineas, 1996 Rosehill Guineas, 1996 BMW Tancred Stakes, 1996 AJC Derby. A little post Triple Crown 'slump' followed where he inexplicably ran below par, before suddenly bouncing back to win the 1996 G1 Underwood Stakes. He then returned in 1997 for those brilliant victories in the G1 Chipping Norton Stakes, Australian Cup and a 2nd BMW Tancred. He was defeated at his last start in the G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes by the good colt INTERGAZE who would become a very good WFA galloper in his own right as an older horse. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The thing you had to remember when photographing Octagonal was that you would probably never get a picture of winning all on his own in glorious isolation, with all his flags flying, and no other horses in the frame. Photos of Octagonal almost always involved him lunging for the finishing post, and nearly all of the time there were other horses in the frame. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNRVU9ssrsrYXKADzbuH5uZ64uPmutf5t8Gw45dy005-9eAvPS97sE8BV40_X7ax2csu-VgioQgMaKCY9DRG5VeXGCV_uWj-DBscr_JzfJzf6Ggvk6PiCeJiy1m_1WvYtJOYnV89XVkqw/s2048/D7DF9B1B-8B05-49AC-8F6A-F617BE9D8CFE.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNRVU9ssrsrYXKADzbuH5uZ64uPmutf5t8Gw45dy005-9eAvPS97sE8BV40_X7ax2csu-VgioQgMaKCY9DRG5VeXGCV_uWj-DBscr_JzfJzf6Ggvk6PiCeJiy1m_1WvYtJOYnV89XVkqw/w640-h418/D7DF9B1B-8B05-49AC-8F6A-F617BE9D8CFE.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz13rPwZ7pOO2KKGBG7aU63-Fr3dV76CNm-0HQz_ye4WtVWTgTB8i5A9towclaudZ-o6nKF9z739-N87m3NBkGgPYdvSTGTulVcnwZ2YKrx9AFmwVlqI0YgSQNv1rYkJte8KS9EFL0eM/s2048/05CA0B08-0664-44B9-853A-B1DF8A08B2FA.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz13rPwZ7pOO2KKGBG7aU63-Fr3dV76CNm-0HQz_ye4WtVWTgTB8i5A9towclaudZ-o6nKF9z739-N87m3NBkGgPYdvSTGTulVcnwZ2YKrx9AFmwVlqI0YgSQNv1rYkJte8KS9EFL0eM/w640-h418/05CA0B08-0664-44B9-853A-B1DF8A08B2FA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His 2nd victory in the G1 Mercedes Tancred Stakes. Heart stopping as ever. This is one of my favourite pictures of him. It’s absolutely full frame.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-SOIYFdyjNKt6AudjRCU2hzXYoYvqUWxS2TiM5WLVi_K9jtZ12blEy1Tv-1CjCDon9RO4icJX4x2Jhe4XFiFZ_XTf1bhtPh7gnpEn_lorL2oOoDqv47YeYIjIbq7Dpu576futcjd5Nbg/s2048/7AC98C92-E33A-4E8A-9737-5A5DEFAD3E6D.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1337" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-SOIYFdyjNKt6AudjRCU2hzXYoYvqUWxS2TiM5WLVi_K9jtZ12blEy1Tv-1CjCDon9RO4icJX4x2Jhe4XFiFZ_XTf1bhtPh7gnpEn_lorL2oOoDqv47YeYIjIbq7Dpu576futcjd5Nbg/w640-h418/7AC98C92-E33A-4E8A-9737-5A5DEFAD3E6D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack and Bob Ingham on 1997 Slipper Day, when Guineas won the Slipper and Occy the Tancred.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJqOO8RUVksSIOYJ3en60atuXGo70M4ZiK_zDHv7Pi37oE7qhFOiRxI2gKMtwex8n5n_VBSVqM4_8NL7NDZrjYLwjIIn0xzaNsNZt14tPftKLhLihdNCLCPrZJbtwmEAAtvWJMlGeo7s/s2048/7CA132DD-E25F-4952-976C-88DBEDEF133F.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJqOO8RUVksSIOYJ3en60atuXGo70M4ZiK_zDHv7Pi37oE7qhFOiRxI2gKMtwex8n5n_VBSVqM4_8NL7NDZrjYLwjIIn0xzaNsNZt14tPftKLhLihdNCLCPrZJbtwmEAAtvWJMlGeo7s/w640-h418/7CA132DD-E25F-4952-976C-88DBEDEF133F.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yep, this was all for Occy. Cult hero.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxBRL_RWssiWFqzFwezxY9vWGNb0u77SY-iu1mpaS-7u9A1lpc5T6NC8VsSBP8AN5OHnZrY6bCb6je9BE67y5_5kQNDrYsnXAiXqLGE6kXel3koDZEBIfNbwBv04JNwRZgRs3G0nGpmg/s2048/448F51E7-32DD-4D9F-8E80-EFC1120C3E02.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxBRL_RWssiWFqzFwezxY9vWGNb0u77SY-iu1mpaS-7u9A1lpc5T6NC8VsSBP8AN5OHnZrY6bCb6je9BE67y5_5kQNDrYsnXAiXqLGE6kXel3koDZEBIfNbwBv04JNwRZgRs3G0nGpmg/w640-h418/448F51E7-32DD-4D9F-8E80-EFC1120C3E02.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlX5X39Wnv3rU5uzP715liZEYy_U8KA1Yutz6-c0XqK4D9f8YvK3mgF5sRWXopycTMwmTiMvFCcCkUSA5VFDdgBRxw1M_rrsDT0yemMLva1LCmEgp68MkmKBevo0wdpEutrzBKL-3tgo/s2048/Octagonal-04121997-4924-22a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1310" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlX5X39Wnv3rU5uzP715liZEYy_U8KA1Yutz6-c0XqK4D9f8YvK3mgF5sRWXopycTMwmTiMvFCcCkUSA5VFDdgBRxw1M_rrsDT0yemMLva1LCmEgp68MkmKBevo0wdpEutrzBKL-3tgo/w410-h640/Octagonal-04121997-4924-22a.jpg" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out the back after Occy's last race. </td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Octagonal retired to a huge fanfare, with a parade down the home straight and a special rug and went off to Woodlands Stud where he lived most of the rest of his life. We probably all expected a little bit more of Octagonal at stud, but he did sire 23 individual stakes winners including 1 all time great, so in my mind he was a success. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FmhonobOaXn2-35Z8Ma9w_2wX01dhIphcK21wzCx_ZKPovUdh_Au3oeFKHOty9Npbvq7y95RwvNkNEh97Siex8s72Dk4V6cCwP_n4Aq19YlcTxSaGydUh0Y9auI3iFyZ9DzS_-KZt0I/s2048/OctagonalHeadSideOn01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1638" data-original-width="2048" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FmhonobOaXn2-35Z8Ma9w_2wX01dhIphcK21wzCx_ZKPovUdh_Au3oeFKHOty9Npbvq7y95RwvNkNEh97Siex8s72Dk4V6cCwP_n4Aq19YlcTxSaGydUh0Y9auI3iFyZ9DzS_-KZt0I/w640-h512/OctagonalHeadSideOn01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken on my very first trip to the Hunter, in December 1997, at Woodlands Stud on what would go on to be a blazingly hot day, in the very early morning light. Again, I was dead inexperienced, especially with stallions, but he always was a good boy.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpRYxi6o9OMsOtn1Wf301wV4kjeE0cnuQmz5aZoI3cHS4tyCLno4zjLFwsBOt-ywQHXCPSBWohXFRR3ZszMoeWBHHndGG9tO179x8ucKL_XHU5IS8O5fYGYZKb2oO-Hr_7TVqOUdGnTc/s2048/OctagonalHeadSideOn02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpRYxi6o9OMsOtn1Wf301wV4kjeE0cnuQmz5aZoI3cHS4tyCLno4zjLFwsBOt-ywQHXCPSBWohXFRR3ZszMoeWBHHndGG9tO179x8ucKL_XHU5IS8O5fYGYZKb2oO-Hr_7TVqOUdGnTc/w640-h426/OctagonalHeadSideOn02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9d7remN27fRIJQi85hAqlGqyHIb59bWbl5NMy3mkU0ptuftSx7IbEJC0ehT0J1qU3vamkEwI6bN6Ft_gMqx2GCNzyOxUIIFkcud_Z_c3Nu96ttgRsG4gkvLnFGgYqCJ5vNd_HUYTXhw0/s2048/Denman-Lonhro-Octagonal-08302010-3882-18x12.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9d7remN27fRIJQi85hAqlGqyHIb59bWbl5NMy3mkU0ptuftSx7IbEJC0ehT0J1qU3vamkEwI6bN6Ft_gMqx2GCNzyOxUIIFkcud_Z_c3Nu96ttgRsG4gkvLnFGgYqCJ5vNd_HUYTXhw0/w640-h426/Denman-Lonhro-Octagonal-08302010-3882-18x12.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is an important little photo. I took this picture on 30 August 2010 and the objective was to get the 3 generations together in the one photo, not always easy with stallions here in Australia. Pictured are OCTAGONAL (furtherest from camera), LONHRO (centre) and DENMAN (closest to camera). I shot it on the way up to where we thought we might try to take the photo. I liked the look of it walking up, and asked them to halt. Almost on queue all three stallions looked around to me and I always liked the way they were placed across the track. It was just the way it unfolded, and highlights the need to always be prepared to act. Sometimes those reflexes learnt as a photographer in the heat of battle on the racetrack can come in handy. It's became a bit of an important image too, and was pretty popular in it's own right. I love it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTog0BnukbvJKnxG3YnqDeVFkEecrUVB-6YUrP4u0IDRNXD2NDJdtWho6gQ-DNfI3uWOe4BvUn7CoGcHZjd_viHWRbpt_ASJxIxERJI7GI9fcYVn3cup79BQNkL50by8f2mtwS2D2KkCg/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTog0BnukbvJKnxG3YnqDeVFkEecrUVB-6YUrP4u0IDRNXD2NDJdtWho6gQ-DNfI3uWOe4BvUn7CoGcHZjd_viHWRbpt_ASJxIxERJI7GI9fcYVn3cup79BQNkL50by8f2mtwS2D2KkCg/" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OCTAGONAL at Darley Kelvinside. It was enormously important for me to photograph him on this trip.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Octagonal's best progeny were:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>LONHRO</b> (Octagonal x Shadea) What a gift from our beloved Occy. He was also black, even blacker than Occy. Technically the silly Australian Stud Book and Racing Australia classify both horses as brown. We say this is bollocks - everyone knows that Black Horses are more beautiful and these two were are beautiful as they come, and in my eyes, Lonhro bloody well is a black horse..... Lonhro was a brilliant racehorse. Truth be told he was an even better racehorse than The Big O (he used to get called "The Little O" because he looked just like Occy), he certainly had more brilliance and acceleration, and what I really loved about him was that I DID get him all on his own, with all his flags flying!</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Octagonal and Lonhro were both Australian Racehorses of the Year although Lonhro did not emulate his famous sire with victory in the WS Cox Plate (sad face), he just didn't seem to enjoy Moonee Valley. Lonhro's major wins were the 2001 Caulfield Guineas, the 2002 Caulfield Stakes (after a ding-dong battle with Sunline) and Mackinnon Stakes, the 2003 George Ryder Stakes, Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Caulfield Stakes and George Main Stakes, and in 2004 he won the CF Orr Stakes, Australian Cup ('and the crowd shouts "Go Lonhro Go!!!!"') and George Ryder Stakes. In an ironic twist of fate he suffered the same fate as his sire by running 2nd (to Grand Armee) in his final race, also the G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes. He was crowned Champion Australian Racehorse for the 2003-2004 Racing Season and retired to Woodlands Stud. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">As a stallion, Lonhro has gone one better than Dad because he was crowned Champion Australian Stallion in the 2010-2011 Breeding Season. Lonhro, who is now owned by Darley and stands at Kelvinside, to date is the sire of 76 individual stakes winners, including </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">PIERRO (ex Miss Right Note), who</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> was a terrific racehorse, winning the 2yo Triple Crown, of the G1 Golden Slipper, AJC Sires and Champagne Stakes, as well as the G1 Canterbury and George Ryder Stakes plus a narrow 2nd to Sacred Choice in the G1 Donny under a big weight and on a heavy track. He used to have some good battles against with All Too Hard, finishing runner up to him in the G1 Caulfield Guineas. For good measure Pierro's become a bloody good stallion well, and is currently standing at Coolmore Stud. Pierro's G1 winners to date include </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ARCADIA QUEEN (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Caulfield Stakes, G1 Mackinnon Stakes, G1 Kingston Town Classic), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">LEVENDI</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> G1 Australian Derby, PIERATA </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 All Aged Stakes), PINOT (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 VRC Oaks), REGAL POWER (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Railway Stakes) and SHADOW HERO (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Rosehill Guineas, G1 Spring Champion Stakes). </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lonhro is also the sire of other G1 winners such as ARISTIA (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 VRC Oaks), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">BEADED</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"> (</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Doomben 10,000), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">BOUNDING </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Railway Stakes), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">DENMAN (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Golden Rose), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">EXOSPHERE (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Golden Rose), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">IMPENDING (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Kingsford Smith Cup, G1 Stradbroke Handicap), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">MENTAL (</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Darley VRC Sprint), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">LYRE</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"> (</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Blue Diamond Stakes), </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">KEMENTARI<b> </b>(</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">G1 Randwick Guineas) and numerous other stakes winners.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAM7qj_WiKMyETEbxw9IUnzW3e73ixNQei-gKc5YQzC81-mJW7Q0WQqYfp8gtUA6V9PqgjvC1FOPKYIeyqDDdBJZJK6W72E9IprBX2H6G-dxVMFRejlre3E84DRjWpAt9g7sGnoOVU0U/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAM7qj_WiKMyETEbxw9IUnzW3e73ixNQei-gKc5YQzC81-mJW7Q0WQqYfp8gtUA6V9PqgjvC1FOPKYIeyqDDdBJZJK6W72E9IprBX2H6G-dxVMFRejlre3E84DRjWpAt9g7sGnoOVU0U/w640-h426/Lonhro-BeadmanDarren-3007-20040308-0034.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>That</i> Australian Cup - when the crowd roared "Go Lonhro Go"</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1xzXj9xjnOFiMPa6hQBfrppUNIJD0v-v-AO8LunmupN2AxDTwOcW7X2uGocbudmLPTmrJzT0_ORhV2OIQUux8B47buexsA4TxVHpyyIsEcZL5j36yHapTO7z-nlhDleNcqNh0ctyg-zA/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2048" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1xzXj9xjnOFiMPa6hQBfrppUNIJD0v-v-AO8LunmupN2AxDTwOcW7X2uGocbudmLPTmrJzT0_ORhV2OIQUux8B47buexsA4TxVHpyyIsEcZL5j36yHapTO7z-nlhDleNcqNh0ctyg-zA/w640-h416/Lonhro-BeadmanDarren-3007-20040308-0040.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FYI - Lonhro had a piece of grass stuck on his eyelash the whole way up the straight.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqjos_6dYmLBxrYn1wOeyaKmncIY8VF4YIJo5OajwcxBg7b6LXbzWRCup3Sud_OVVbu2ij830AX-WlUHYTN9bUQococjS0iQnIMQgLG9cQI4VAjuziTNrDMNon8Alaw4Lu5YUq2s-Artw/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1372" data-original-width="2048" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqjos_6dYmLBxrYn1wOeyaKmncIY8VF4YIJo5OajwcxBg7b6LXbzWRCup3Sud_OVVbu2ij830AX-WlUHYTN9bUQococjS0iQnIMQgLG9cQI4VAjuziTNrDMNon8Alaw4Lu5YUq2s-Artw/w640-h428/Lonhro-3910-25a-12x8.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His 2nd G1 George Ryder Stakes, and his last victory.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jRq2JhuPhoI0WhLN1kTH30EfYYBzkV0xT2v8eXBgT0w04LZLPKPsYKB60mcmfgFDnyQhMT-SAiRNYMbL4Uv9UUBFh_cNKHq_3sGtPI53hJcrC6Gz-pJU2g0uZBEj7gr8S17cRYOuYWg/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1647" data-original-width="2048" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jRq2JhuPhoI0WhLN1kTH30EfYYBzkV0xT2v8eXBgT0w04LZLPKPsYKB60mcmfgFDnyQhMT-SAiRNYMbL4Uv9UUBFh_cNKHq_3sGtPI53hJcrC6Gz-pJU2g0uZBEj7gr8S17cRYOuYWg/w640-h515/Lonhro-2572-01-10x8.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the 2003 Caulfield Stakes win</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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I wanted to do something special with him, and the team at Darley are usually great at embracing new ideas.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQToSKpAQ1ciC6fNOq94rs5SxySn1sXc5FqlfsiIs-eDxeIbhUgYkYAxYWM3i8OjJW6ie8qT6HqMl2AeCllz_yGDsFrJh9AmZyR9AUhXULMenFksHeHzGVr7iDcHe2b8zr832dUP9cUo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQToSKpAQ1ciC6fNOq94rs5SxySn1sXc5FqlfsiIs-eDxeIbhUgYkYAxYWM3i8OjJW6ie8qT6HqMl2AeCllz_yGDsFrJh9AmZyR9AUhXULMenFksHeHzGVr7iDcHe2b8zr832dUP9cUo/w640-h426/Lonhro-Paddock-20191002-3490.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpbrANqPPrqnQI6BMMeDja30rTdUmg_zXgTOQpdev6lAEOoiTbYQTw9vMPyL5nfJUhQ9JpTdVaCocGB4xHexwSIvfa_h0NeuGxHO-UvN65YZm4nf9jgZ6NOXy26QVJ7U1JGE-z9-sEDE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpbrANqPPrqnQI6BMMeDja30rTdUmg_zXgTOQpdev6lAEOoiTbYQTw9vMPyL5nfJUhQ9JpTdVaCocGB4xHexwSIvfa_h0NeuGxHO-UvN65YZm4nf9jgZ6NOXy26QVJ7U1JGE-z9-sEDE/w640-h426/Lonhro-08312011-2344.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5uT7Bsvm37eBXKpTUADLhL05z8u_08bYoBsOlslvevOwLCp4g10-Jg7DiimPSA8IttHbnxoy8Bcc01jrIhw-L8EXfOj2XZmtgULiWq50HVLsKiRr8eKdc7EGp3COF05jMcDUOl3uS14/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5uT7Bsvm37eBXKpTUADLhL05z8u_08bYoBsOlslvevOwLCp4g10-Jg7DiimPSA8IttHbnxoy8Bcc01jrIhw-L8EXfOj2XZmtgULiWq50HVLsKiRr8eKdc7EGp3COF05jMcDUOl3uS14/w640-h480/268991365051963177_472922100.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Probably the best son of Lonhro is PIERRO. He won the 2yo Triple Crown and is one of only a handful of Slipper winners to win at 3 against his own age and older horses. He is pictured here winning the G1 Canterbury Stakes.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj-4zEFMi1RuZETk1F0FAX0LRg5IScxZ6l_U1ISIedVc8MH_A7p296TPhPq96en2XGyusla4tvnGU9bRMtxJHu25mHbGlD0M7w1PYplZBNBkvZoobpFILsrjyHvRGEKQRHIvrBpwgbCeQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj-4zEFMi1RuZETk1F0FAX0LRg5IScxZ6l_U1ISIedVc8MH_A7p296TPhPq96en2XGyusla4tvnGU9bRMtxJHu25mHbGlD0M7w1PYplZBNBkvZoobpFILsrjyHvRGEKQRHIvrBpwgbCeQ/w640-h480/2689913650520798588_1963095642.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAUZHO9nSMtpwjT5h3FA5KvpqdmMaDpam0bs6X0HIFHAcx7af2PhpnixdNrYeCqVgY8C8SPRtG4K7Btfu6fRfnuUft9AmP3FL1OZRoJ0QuEn7D1C2YLQWY9V6XtZNC6MTjE3Q1Ef6wok/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EXOSPHERE, winner of the G1 Golden Rose.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5P9fRiqlWJ8brbtwqnZVX3Xm6Mp4pVqjfhjJ8f79WHMMYD7_XU4MT2j8vuJfrKI6t70_32dKxKypQyinE_4H3RgCIkGBrmbsVunvCaQtnlVXt0lrd8gHoJKKZkdzi2zNyqZjCbLUhpAY/" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5P9fRiqlWJ8brbtwqnZVX3Xm6Mp4pVqjfhjJ8f79WHMMYD7_XU4MT2j8vuJfrKI6t70_32dKxKypQyinE_4H3RgCIkGBrmbsVunvCaQtnlVXt0lrd8gHoJKKZkdzi2zNyqZjCbLUhpAY/w640-h480/Exosphere-McDonaldJames-09122015-3440.jpeg" width="640" /></a> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NIELLO</b> (Octagonal x Shadea): Lonhro’s full brother to Lonny who was also a very good racehorse. He won the 2003 G1 Spring Champion Stakes, the 2004 G1 Rosehill Guineas and 2004 G1 Canterbury Guineas. He died prematurely at stud in 2011, but did leave 3 stakes winners. I photographed both Niello and Lonhro winning on the same day on 2004 Chipping Norton Stakes Day and that was pretty cool. </span></li></ul><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHN_BZ9AEC4u0ksQVr6uhIwKImSY8PjthJPbPCMxpg1j3A52U34xbGpuvS4EGxHVFk4a4alOz4EzkbExbrqjbWwopuzW-MrCQ2UyxBXMLjrSw1oo1PqT9xl_cWucPlMNWJh3OodCdS3w/s2048/3B975075-FAC7-4E24-AB34-5814C13BFB90.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHN_BZ9AEC4u0ksQVr6uhIwKImSY8PjthJPbPCMxpg1j3A52U34xbGpuvS4EGxHVFk4a4alOz4EzkbExbrqjbWwopuzW-MrCQ2UyxBXMLjrSw1oo1PqT9xl_cWucPlMNWJh3OodCdS3w/w640-h418/3B975075-FAC7-4E24-AB34-5814C13BFB90.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NIELLO winning on Chipping Norton Stakes Day on the same day big brother LONHRO won the G1</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZ7as_J_n0Nj3HSTTQkimzIeyUTw2ob7Zz-sb503Ijfq3yZVhvcxUgZKxjqbdA9SHZ9YdAiQ9-55aJsDp1wFswLOGK-CuBlqi360PeijWgW_JwZHvjdFVyhDA2IbL5hhCvx1vp0q2sCw/s2048/9DAEF3A6-8F48-4E04-ABE4-ADC5EF5FC6FC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZ7as_J_n0Nj3HSTTQkimzIeyUTw2ob7Zz-sb503Ijfq3yZVhvcxUgZKxjqbdA9SHZ9YdAiQ9-55aJsDp1wFswLOGK-CuBlqi360PeijWgW_JwZHvjdFVyhDA2IbL5hhCvx1vp0q2sCw/w640-h418/9DAEF3A6-8F48-4E04-ABE4-ADC5EF5FC6FC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">HOSANNAH: Really we should count her as a G1 winner, because they upgraded the Queen of the Turf Stakes to a G1 race 2 years after she won it. For Occy's sake I'm calling her a G1 winner!</span></li></ul></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">MOUAWAD (Zabeel - 1993):</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Carat's 2nd last and 8th foal was MOUAWAD. He was a full brother to Octagonal and let me tell you straight away that this was a terrific little racehorse. He had super acceleration and was almost unbeaten, winning 7 of his 8 races but sadly he was rushed off to stud prematurely (in my opinion!). In the autumn of 1997 the colt won the G1 Australian Guineas (defeating O'Reilly), the G1 Futurity Stakes (defeating Shame) and the G1 George Ryder (defeating Secret Savings). He was withdrawn on the morning of the G1 Doncaster Handicap which I was sure he would have won (although the subsequent winner Secret Savings was obviously a good horse). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Following the Doncaster Handicap the horse was retired to stud immediately. In his first season at stud, in 1997, he served 34 mares but there were only 2 live foals, and they both died according to the Stud Book. He was then</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> inexplicably sold to China, and the Stud Book lists the date of export as being 13 July 1998, which again frustrates me. Nobody seems to know what happened to him. It always frustrates me when this happens because I think regretfully of what he might have achieved as a 4yo had he not been retired to stud so early, or whether they might have been able to do something with the horse had they preserved longer with him at stud here in our region. What might have been.....</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was so disappointed that he never raced again and still feel cranky about that fact that he was lost so completely.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFojhOuDCMSIqrZjo_7n1tYlmgG06IDNl_Y7UY81rWNj9enZORAMUFq2wFpGSqnPY1xEp7jKvGrUtoJs928zXHTmfPUSv_B5eaqNEXLH4pqT7ckW91G8vAlSDMG64IiKr5C4G_kk14jio/s2048/09C8ED76-8FFC-4071-9840-8C40305AC719.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFojhOuDCMSIqrZjo_7n1tYlmgG06IDNl_Y7UY81rWNj9enZORAMUFq2wFpGSqnPY1xEp7jKvGrUtoJs928zXHTmfPUSv_B5eaqNEXLH4pqT7ckW91G8vAlSDMG64IiKr5C4G_kk14jio/w640-h418/09C8ED76-8FFC-4071-9840-8C40305AC719.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MOUAWAD wins the G1 Australian Guineas, defeating O’Reilly</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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He sold for $1.6m as a yearling but didn't ever race. He is the sire of 7 individual stakes-winners, including G1 winner ADDICTIVE HABIT (HBRInc Spring Classic - which has been won by NZ champions like Melody Belle, Jimmy Choux, Princess Coup, Excellent, Veandercross, etc) and G3 winner STERLING PRINCE. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Because he was un-raced I didn't ever get to photograph Colombia (more's the pity), but he</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> has however been responsible for a G1 winner because he is the sire of SNOW FLIGHT, the dam of </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">VIDDORA</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"> </b><span style="font-family: verdana;">winner of the 2018 G1 Moir and 2017 G1 Winterbottom Stakes. Viddora was purchased on retirement by Yulong and although she sadly lost her 2020 Lope de Vega colt she is currently in foal to champion stallion Snitzel.</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQTDIqlwYfW7NYIY8aeRBwc-97cyJ5-Ya38bQIcXO1T-GDqBLDknBAYHHI5PIwTRkLmcDKct_OBpcfieoyUZjyL8RwGP0uV0EQYY_NrzaBnDAa3hTjganXI9KvjuPGhhFBnm8NMavgyo/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQTDIqlwYfW7NYIY8aeRBwc-97cyJ5-Ya38bQIcXO1T-GDqBLDknBAYHHI5PIwTRkLmcDKct_OBpcfieoyUZjyL8RwGP0uV0EQYY_NrzaBnDAa3hTjganXI9KvjuPGhhFBnm8NMavgyo/w640-h426/Viddora-BowditchJoe-01132018-1455.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">VIDDORA</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLyM6nsuMoyaNKKH_PzD2mtcqekTkYtEmFZl1hC9rCNN_t9RWdCtzysphYdEMBMaqMJ77XlE3_dFdAUMYc-tDDKcF2_kZrmpWToXX_oF5mVVRplm6E2Op4w692XzZTIYQLv-TvEb-Jn6k/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLyM6nsuMoyaNKKH_PzD2mtcqekTkYtEmFZl1hC9rCNN_t9RWdCtzysphYdEMBMaqMJ77XlE3_dFdAUMYc-tDDKcF2_kZrmpWToXX_oF5mVVRplm6E2Op4w692XzZTIYQLv-TvEb-Jn6k/w640-h426/Viddora-BowditchJoe-01132018-1459.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLkPFzz32_q7bIlyuhexErq8ph_BU-ruKyBJRKgoHTvKdyXLVb2dp9xFAkY-uL5T3JgW8rjYFDZ5p45ePfHqdV4v9MtUKf-9LmnzQAFgFmAthhI4TnQDOtXTilCszIL8gmuzHaCbXuxY8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLkPFzz32_q7bIlyuhexErq8ph_BU-ruKyBJRKgoHTvKdyXLVb2dp9xFAkY-uL5T3JgW8rjYFDZ5p45ePfHqdV4v9MtUKf-9LmnzQAFgFmAthhI4TnQDOtXTilCszIL8gmuzHaCbXuxY8/w640-h426/Viddora-BowditchJoe-01132018-1474.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-28733735197959948672021-07-16T19:05:00.011+10:002021-07-17T13:25:07.680+10:00Back where we started.. Lockdown 5.0<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, curse it all, here we are again. Lockdown 5.0 and as with the other Lockdowns, it sucks. There's a fair bit of déja vu about it and yes, we're getting pretty good at Lockdowns here in Melbourne and Victoria. This is because we've done this before, having seen off that awful 2nd Wave. It seems clear to most that without proper vaccination rates that a swift lockdown is the only option, but gee they are tough! I just wish the NSW Government would apply the same logic in Greater Sydney because the current settings are pretty Namby Pamby (hands up who’s watched the Rik Mayall movie ‘Drop Dead Fred’? It’s got a super scene involving Namby Pamby FYI….). I remain deeply concerned about that outbreak, with my mum who’s almost 80 living on her own there, and all my NSW based stallions waiting to be photographed in August and September.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After originally feeling like we were sailing along happily, we've now been struck down by multiple lockdowns and outbreaks, and they are dreadful. Again, we're trying to put the down time to good use. It is a quite time of the year for us as we are still unable to leave the country and travel to Europe but the speed with which we can be stood down from the racetrack remains hideously swift, even though the Victorian Government considers it a permitted activity!!!! We hope there is more certainty by the time the 2021 Victorian Spring Carnival rolls around and continue to liaise constructively with RVL about access to the racetrack. It’s really hard seeing industry photographers still working in Greater Sydney (who have WAY higher case numbers than us) while we are unable to work. Racing NSW has a different approach to photographers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, what have I been doing with my time in Lockdown 4.0 and now Lockdown 5.0? Well, I’ve continued to blast along refilling and re-sleeving the precious negative collection which was showing signs of deterioration and quite frankly from 2003 onwards was pretty disorganised! There were days when my office floor and desk felt knee high in negatives and folders and sleeving! I’ve also been scanning the old negatives as I’ve gone, as I move along the extensive task of digitising the back library, and have discovered plenty of treasures along the way in terms of photographs I had long forgotten taking! And I’ve also done a big overhaul of my website, which involved changing platforms and migrating the www.bronwenhealy.com.au website across to where my client galleries have resided for several years now. It’s early days, there are still likely to be loads of errors and areas to be tweaked, but just quietly, I think it is looking ok! I hope you’ll have a little browse and see what you think.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lockdown 4.0 wiped out almost all of my photographic work and turned what I thought would be a busy month leading up to the Magic Millions and Inglis weanling sales into a really quiet one. It came at the very end of the personal time I had to take between February and May to undergo Hyperbaric Treatment at the Alfred Hospital so that the surgeon could safely remove my poor sick tooth from my even sicker jawbone which clearly didn’t enjoy the radiation treatment I had to do in 2014. It should have happened 12 months ago, but the 2nd Wave shut the medical system here in Melbourne down for over 6 months. After originally bounding immediately back to work at the completion of my treatment for my long term Woodside Park Stud (now rebranding to Morningside) all of a sudden the work stopped. As soon as we went in to Lockdown 4.0 the flow on effect was that, with the Great Southern Sale pushed back almost a month, farms started worrying about their budgets, which in turn affected me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Despite all of our hard work getting back on track under lockdown conditions towards the end of last year’s Victorian Spring Racing Carnival, RVL again advised us that they were refusing to give photographers access to the racetrack. As someone who works 100% in the racing and breeding industry this is constant source of frustration and stress, especially when we watch our colleagues interstate, (and overseas) many of whom live and work Greater Sydney, who able to go about their work unaffected. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Following the end of Lockdown 4.0 RVL eventually allowed to return to work and thankfully this was just in time for Jamie Kah’s attempt at breaking 100 wins. It took several meetings for her to reach the 100 and there was great anticipation surrounding it, but this remarkable young woman achieved the historic milestone at Caulfield last Saturday, and is now sitting pretty on 101 metropolitan winners for the 2020-2021 Racing Season. She’s so composed, is very modest and unassuming and she <i>never</i> makes it all about her - seriously, there’s not a hint of a <i>‘me me me’</i> approach to this lovely rider. She just calmly and quietly goes about her work in a very un-boasty fashion, and I <i>really</i> like that about her. She sits beautifully on a horse and is just as strong as the boys in a close finish and clearly has lovely balance and hands. She’s quietly spoken and there’s a great deal to like about her, and I’m so pleased that I was on course to record her moment.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And then thanks to the actions of the infected removalists, Lockdown 5.0 was announced and we were again stood down from the track by RVL. We are hoping madly it is only for the one Saturday with the early Spring races only a couple of weeks away. The lockout doesn't just apply to race day and we can’t attend track work, barrier trials, anything, but again, we are trying our best to remain optimistic and suspect at the moment anyway during this crucial 5 day period the best course of action really is to stay at home! It’s just as well the weather is completely miserable!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqc2arEl7YbuAGDEhSk_cIZPv_qcZ9bahHmuKLHHiNTRXL_omK2b_39LJ1DI8sVguFQHz_3bUTFMSVdPcOcvpTwi7rp-WYJ-9YIyDXqWtNZ9mbfq90CYnvb9U1fsqk5P_KyYzwnTaW9IA/s2048/040E357E-61C6-4599-96BA-A24DCB687855.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqc2arEl7YbuAGDEhSk_cIZPv_qcZ9bahHmuKLHHiNTRXL_omK2b_39LJ1DI8sVguFQHz_3bUTFMSVdPcOcvpTwi7rp-WYJ-9YIyDXqWtNZ9mbfq90CYnvb9U1fsqk5P_KyYzwnTaW9IA/w640-h480/040E357E-61C6-4599-96BA-A24DCB687855.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWo7pKfB-vpkleCvOiGzn0suX9KsGmOxx2rZlZkol9xDDJfYkQJrhI_jIy_5-k1em8x6PDHTZ3GtGKGvWlDXVF35R4UtixseWslIcsMPxpGgiTmz_INQ-onaX8NElj1NUIUablgdiwxQ/s2048/47B4DB7F-5BEB-422A-8D7C-7B3482479175.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWo7pKfB-vpkleCvOiGzn0suX9KsGmOxx2rZlZkol9xDDJfYkQJrhI_jIy_5-k1em8x6PDHTZ3GtGKGvWlDXVF35R4UtixseWslIcsMPxpGgiTmz_INQ-onaX8NElj1NUIUablgdiwxQ/w640-h426/47B4DB7F-5BEB-422A-8D7C-7B3482479175.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKM7sRa5S1ejUEbj8iQ-iR1ihL84XYlgM6dIS63rlvg7d_GK0jW7NypXVwzNbZpun_ewnswfQLm-3ezih9bjY-DhoopVdplcZyjhYiOi5hi_NR0O_I_SsD9_iXHOhjiKVErK-8qmBMsbc/s2040/77ED481B-C1FB-417B-8EF3-E1D100C5A3BA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2040" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKM7sRa5S1ejUEbj8iQ-iR1ihL84XYlgM6dIS63rlvg7d_GK0jW7NypXVwzNbZpun_ewnswfQLm-3ezih9bjY-DhoopVdplcZyjhYiOi5hi_NR0O_I_SsD9_iXHOhjiKVErK-8qmBMsbc/w640-h426/77ED481B-C1FB-417B-8EF3-E1D100C5A3BA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29xJ62vjJZs9az76w7ox4PqsxzT473jRcOSPX-RHlLHpygycG2cwxK4oQf8CbGpIQCSWhBaqPF0bFpI65F1FXe_20Kc4K6MQ7oQTDtOa-PmwlgG1DLYakhANQWGGlgoG9U6zO3XvRLN8/s2040/947EAC60-8F02-40AB-9668-1876EB114BB8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2040" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29xJ62vjJZs9az76w7ox4PqsxzT473jRcOSPX-RHlLHpygycG2cwxK4oQf8CbGpIQCSWhBaqPF0bFpI65F1FXe_20Kc4K6MQ7oQTDtOa-PmwlgG1DLYakhANQWGGlgoG9U6zO3XvRLN8/w640-h426/947EAC60-8F02-40AB-9668-1876EB114BB8.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Victorian State Government currently has the entire state of NSW as a Red Zone, and, thanks to the appalling conduct of those <i>wretched</i> Sydney removalists (<i>‘thanks for NOTHING!!!!!!!!’</i> we all shouted!) not only are we are back in Lockdown 5.0 but I suspect the Victorian Government will be even jumpier about the risk posed from NSW. Despite this I remain hopeful that I will be able to get to Regional NSW for my stallion shoots. Having missed them in 2020 because of the Victorian 2nd Wave, I’m do not want to miss them in 2021, and am prepared to do the 14 days home isolation on my return to Victoria. This may cause my Hunter Valley dates to need to move forward a week so that my attendance at the</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Caulfield Guineas meeting isn't compromised. I hope the outbreak will be more under control by then though and at least Regional NSW (and the ACT where I usually stop off on the way to the Hunter) will be returned to an Orange Zone. And also by then I will have had my 2nd COVID vaccination so will have that precious ‘fully vaccinated’ status. My teenage son, who’s a Type 1 Diabetic and therefore was eligible under 1b, has had his first dose of Pfizer (he breezed through without a single side effect too, surely this is reassuring to the vaccine hesitant!!) and he will be fully vaccinated by early August.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Finally, it would be absolutely remiss of me to not mention the sad loss of the legendary stallion GALILEO (Sadler’s Wells x Urban Sea) at 23 years. It was a day we all knew was coming but I’m sure nobody in the industry ever wanted to face. This horse was really something, as a racehorse and a stallion. He did everything. He won a Classic. He won against the older horses. He was bred in the purple. By a champion and out of a champion. His dam Urban Sea was an Arc winner and 2 of her foals also won this prestigious race, because she is the dam of not just Galileo but also SEA THE STARS (Cape Cross). Then as a sire, Galileo continued setting new benchmarks and breaking all records. He sired countless Epsom Derby winners and many other Classic winners, both fillies and colts. His record as a Broodmare sire continues to impress and above all, he sired champions on the track and in the breeding barn. And he did what many stallions fail to do - particularly stallions whose progeny fall into the ‘commercially sexy’ category and are hence rushed off to the stud without proving themselves against older horses - he sired a true All Time Great. Of course I speak of the mighty unbeaten champion racehorse FRANKEL here (a horse who is close to my heart). Galileo he also a champion sire of sires and the great Frankel looks set to really seal his legacy by being not only a truly great racehorse but a magnificent stallion as well - Frankel of course being in the middle of a record breaking season this year. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I finally got to meet and work with Galileo in June 2018 and it really was such a thrill. He was the most beautiful gentle soul and we adored and revered him. The outpouring of affection, appreciation and grief when his death was announced was a testament to the magnificence of the horse. He really did deserve the Tolkienesque phrase <i>‘He is the Lord of All Horses’</i>. I’m in the process of writing a special Blog post dedicated to this magnificent stallion and will post it when it is complete.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuN19rY0QycuuBw1Y110NZyibVAT0SBJ6QiIJPpbegtUiuBObb08O5gPbwJMeOO_5NyrgiWOfDIlYYPcYuM-uUTwJYnxznibu4kx7FGp8ycNsqfXhkT1H6t0d15xat2tkNBQmJYOc0tao/s1024/1A0496BB-17E2-4A7D-9663-8A5F3EB5E008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1024" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuN19rY0QycuuBw1Y110NZyibVAT0SBJ6QiIJPpbegtUiuBObb08O5gPbwJMeOO_5NyrgiWOfDIlYYPcYuM-uUTwJYnxznibu4kx7FGp8ycNsqfXhkT1H6t0d15xat2tkNBQmJYOc0tao/w640-h472/1A0496BB-17E2-4A7D-9663-8A5F3EB5E008.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLC0hSoede-NkqWJnYkvJlSMSFhvV8VlOB8cZ7GK-xN9nlZhFhcNng1TQkRqonR2EI5fp9yev8KWKecn3JmWDUDfN6vJkRHRCk2ZpeuO0urMkKztlvPTvyuSzYfUPv2VJ5ZtPNjXRToak/s2048/359A53AD-638A-401D-9340-F7B072395C50.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLC0hSoede-NkqWJnYkvJlSMSFhvV8VlOB8cZ7GK-xN9nlZhFhcNng1TQkRqonR2EI5fp9yev8KWKecn3JmWDUDfN6vJkRHRCk2ZpeuO0urMkKztlvPTvyuSzYfUPv2VJ5ZtPNjXRToak/w512-h640/359A53AD-638A-401D-9340-F7B072395C50.jpeg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIhy_HV3-PSpnqyy3cce61zYcibLOBLK8Hg1juhT1zGMbH_Y-XBFmr7AMP_kiHnP7fYyWbIxCQW25jCYflVY59nIw5EcZ2qPofyPqgUxJl9b7yJM4mYUPq5hfSlQsznmIrKNn23KvY7M/s2040/F68A0FB7-834E-45D0-BF2C-6DB41B645E15.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2040" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIhy_HV3-PSpnqyy3cce61zYcibLOBLK8Hg1juhT1zGMbH_Y-XBFmr7AMP_kiHnP7fYyWbIxCQW25jCYflVY59nIw5EcZ2qPofyPqgUxJl9b7yJM4mYUPq5hfSlQsznmIrKNn23KvY7M/w640-h426/F68A0FB7-834E-45D0-BF2C-6DB41B645E15.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-87531404793422652072020-12-24T17:46:00.042+11:002021-07-17T18:37:47.251+10:00Farewell Maxie<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s Chritmas Eve today, and we suddenly lost our kitty Maxie. There are no words. Just tears, as we came to terms with what felt like the final gift of 2020. We are also in 14 days strict home isolation following my brief working visit to Sydney which alas and woe coincided with the start of the Northern Beaches Cluster. This year has really sucked and we are utterly heartbroken at the loss of our constant companion and friend. He was only 8 years old, and our determined little bad ass is no more. Enough 2020, enough….</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_olqPIN44Ys-0IZBalByrOzS9ik1wB0D-WXTAslfiExOvZgEzH0TPdnBtMwOqT6UfdumyS0UM1D6uQ-RC7_KzEFVKj52TRoLegDyyPGc_BudS0Ft22jBKl-CZD60bD4Bn4ViExapZpg0/s960/1A3D900D-AC8D-4381-8FB1-862C008E17A3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="639" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_olqPIN44Ys-0IZBalByrOzS9ik1wB0D-WXTAslfiExOvZgEzH0TPdnBtMwOqT6UfdumyS0UM1D6uQ-RC7_KzEFVKj52TRoLegDyyPGc_BudS0Ft22jBKl-CZD60bD4Bn4ViExapZpg0/w426-h640/1A3D900D-AC8D-4381-8FB1-862C008E17A3.jpeg" width="426" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbd5kXn-Frv-NLQr5DA6LKkK-Cr6PjymfmR6zXDXmst2uwqawar_0-Puo5VpElFWnK20DdOpqDHkuVRVWyyTFwiTvRq0-Cw9VwEGz5cX_7QaLD0RJPmB6DHN4KcDEJ1sITwNU0_Ds-mAs/s2048/1D88FCA2-CCFA-4BEF-82A0-9A8076C4BBD9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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More recently it was Altona that we journeyed to in the early hours of the morning (being a 1.5 hour drive from home). Mordialloc is much closer to home, only taking about 35 mins at an early hour. It was fun to be back at “Nelly’s Beach” and getting the Ciaron Maher/David Eustace runners like Cox Plate winner SIR DRAGONET and smart sprinter ANDERS, as well as a big team from Micky Price’s stable, including G1 Thousand Guineas winner ODEUM, who is a real doll.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8RCfDy5XddnZ_2Yd8_bdsS69_RMV1g-HMcaxA11mnOwYipea6VgLn_rJy65TSXRtWmo_aKAVkfrCCJDuByBxOTu9JwN3xDvQgkeNntf1Ei0Ct9EjT3uroAM-n3jgA1BDgKstuXuJItY/s2048/2F63BDA2-8C6C-4408-BC03-97717C037441.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8RCfDy5XddnZ_2Yd8_bdsS69_RMV1g-HMcaxA11mnOwYipea6VgLn_rJy65TSXRtWmo_aKAVkfrCCJDuByBxOTu9JwN3xDvQgkeNntf1Ei0Ct9EjT3uroAM-n3jgA1BDgKstuXuJItY/w640-h426/2F63BDA2-8C6C-4408-BC03-97717C037441.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It is run at The Valley, or The Cauldron as we like to call it. Like many things in 2020 this year’s renewal was a sobering and sad reminder of what we lost. A Cox Plate without crowds. Darryl Braithwaite singing ‘The Horses’ to a handful of people there in a purely working capacity. As they ran clips of previous winners, filled with cutaways to joyous scenes of the crowd interacting with each famous winner of one of our most prestigious races, I could feel tears prickling at the back of my eyes and I had to walk away. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The race was won by the imported SIR DRAGONET. He’s a really nice horse and he gave Bossy another Cox Plate victory and Ciaron Maher and David Eustace their first winner in the race. We’d photographed the horse in the 2019 Epsom Derby, a moment that felt like a lifetime ago when he swept past me at the 150m to victory. So glad to be there though. We’d been forced off track at the last moment for the Caulfield Cup which we were shattered about, but Cox Plate day was a good day. It always is. 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I wasn't expecting disaster to hit Melbourne, neither did I ever expect the gorgeous rural neck of the woods I live in to be classed as part of Melbourne, but there you go. It's rendered me stuck at home for the best part of 7 months, and that's been lousy although it turns out I'm pretty handy at painting wooden spoons. Who knew..... See, there's a little thing called "Spoonville" going on in Melbourne, it's really cute, it started after the teddies bears went out, and is our way of saying to each other 'we'll get there!'.</span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">However there has been a couple of positives to come out of THE GREAT LOCKDOWN, which chained me to my house unable to work. See, I've been hard at work designing a series of products for sale. So, I'm really excited to announce that The Image is Everything's brand new 2021 Stallion Wall Calendars, and a lovely series of MOUSEPADS are now available! Usually I am too busy shooting, and driving, and editing, and driving, and driving, and editing, and shooting, oh, did I mention driving, but all of a sudden my car <em>Benjamin Dan</em> started asking me whether there was someone else. My hard drives stopped filling up and in order to stop myself pacing the house and SHOUTING out loud in frustration, I tried to turn a pretty big low into a positive. So well done me....</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><strong>2021 STALLIONS CALENDARS:</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The calendars are a boutique piece and I've done my best to keep the price as low as I possibly can. However it was important to me that they were top shelf, because quality is important. There are now three (3) different calendars to choose from, mainly because the original one I designed, the LARGE, got discontinued before I launched, which is a shame. There are only 8 of these available. The other 2 available are the A3 and the DOUBLE A4. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><strong>LARGE (8 only available) CALENDAR</strong>: Measures 370mm x 580mm when fully extended, they feature a spiral binding in the middle<br /><strong>A3 CALENDAR:</strong> Measures 297mm x 420mm in size and feature a spiral binding at the top.<br /><strong>DOUBLE A4 CALENDAR</strong>: Measures 297mm x 420mm when fully extended and features a spiral binding in the middle (size when closed is 297mm x 210mm)</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Some of the world's best thoroughbred stallions are featured, and I hope these calendars will become a bit of a collectors item. In addition to the LOVELY photos, I've spent hours and hours researching thoroughbreds, in an effort to make these beautifully produced calendars a little bit more special, and inside the calendar you'll find some fun information on many of the world's most influential thoroughbreds and I think it will make checking your gorgeous wall calendar EVERY day much more entertaining than just looking at your boring phone or computer calendar! You can imagine my displeasure when I found out that they had discontinued the Large product and I had to recreate it all from scratch! Luckily for me I had gotten some printed in hope of people actually wanting to buy one, so that made my job of starting again a little easier! It did delay my launch for about 10 days though, alas!</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><strong>MOUSEPADS:</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Initially available are a series of seven (7) different mousepads. You can click on the link to find out which treasures are available first. If there's sufficient interest I will add to this range. I've done samples and I'm pleased with the quality. They are 6mm thick and the photos have reproduced nicely which for me is a key requirement, because after all, The Image is Everything! </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I am now taking orders. You can order by downloading and completing the order form. Payment options include BANK TRANSFER or PAYPAL. If you wish to pay using PayPal, please still download and complete the order form, and I will raise you an invoice within PayPal and you can use this to place your order and make payment. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">To FIND OUT MORE on the CALENDARS and see which one you like the best!<br /><a data-mce-href="https://www.bronwenhealy.com.au/2021-calendar-sales" href="https://www.bronwenhealy.com.au/2021-calendar-sales" target="_blank" title="2021 STALLION CALENDARS">https://www.bronwenhealy.com.au/2021-calendar-sales</a></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">To FIND OUT MORE on the Mousepads and see which of them you need to own!<br /><a data-mce-href="https://www.bronwenhealy.com.au/mousepads-1" href="https://www.bronwenhealy.com.au/mousepads-1" target="_blank" title="MOUSEPADS">https://www.bronwenhealy.com.au/mousepads-1</a></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-mce-style="color: #99ccff;" style="color: #99ccff;">You'll be helping out a very grateful photographer who's been absolutely smashed by the pandemic, what with <span data-mce-style="caret-color: #99ccff;">State Premiers closing borders and despite being a very hardworking photographers being locked out of the racetrack for what seems like forever!!!!! AND I hope you'll </span>get a few good ideas for Christmas presents too! Here's a little sneaky peak, then I hope you'll want to rush over to have a better look on the website.</span></strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><strong>GALILEO MOUSEPAD</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d33edf5e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e769db2bb5632517266b9ab44dc81b28" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d33edf5e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e769db2bb5632517266b9ab44dc81b28" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><strong>WINX MOUSEPAD - BEACH</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d33ee489.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=bea5519f6f0eaacdb68a1264cab7e0d8" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d33ee489.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=bea5519f6f0eaacdb68a1264cab7e0d8" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><strong>WINX MOUSEPAD - QUEEN ELIZABETH</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d3f907ec.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=018e0015b22ff163c5a62b9e24c12734" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d3f907ec.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=018e0015b22ff163c5a62b9e24c12734" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><strong>WINX MOUSEPAD - ROSEHILL</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d3f405ec.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a00b10088d715ce8705efd01aaeebdea" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e5d3f405ec.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a00b10088d715ce8705efd01aaeebdea" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><strong>A3 STALLIONS CALENDAR</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e1078072fb.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=4c6b9366eac589823eca3019483916b8" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e1078072fb.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=4c6b9366eac589823eca3019483916b8" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><strong>DOUBLE A4 CALENDAR</strong></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e102cc6ef5.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b401b1e8aefc950a23a03f666ee12e91" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f8e102cc6ef5.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b401b1e8aefc950a23a03f666ee12e91" style="border: 0px; 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The gorgeous sunrise and fog this morning at our local Balnarring Beach proves it too! There is light at the end of the tunnel. Case numbers are coming down. The Great Lockdown CANNOT last forever!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdEH-7-9SbHVyk-ZBOfn6BNQVb2VmENYSyrGbUZEXq5rd7Ql9okly1ZhHnWWRTRea0cuZDFRxfnGiZAgWVJtQFkK3PTOwVhmADWm5oToK7tvcQd9fZggHFxm9pTGxiL8-8HJne9NSt4HM/s2048/6EB6BF4A-7295-4633-9302-0A1D2F2F3B32.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdEH-7-9SbHVyk-ZBOfn6BNQVb2VmENYSyrGbUZEXq5rd7Ql9okly1ZhHnWWRTRea0cuZDFRxfnGiZAgWVJtQFkK3PTOwVhmADWm5oToK7tvcQd9fZggHFxm9pTGxiL8-8HJne9NSt4HM/w640-h426/6EB6BF4A-7295-4633-9302-0A1D2F2F3B32.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6tZPmaOZerUyw9C9z7J_0koWJMLkY5m8sdGh4Kl1Vmwsvb-CmzoVWZFGzcLWrNvI2cjCJjytXjF0jcLWnk0O7A0Ne7xAQ4kmHS-C6hiSuRGY9-RtfGuUTVFkfk5ECaHRMkvYjBLpOgw/s2048/8B6B463E-33E8-46BE-A55C-4CEDBE21CFED.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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It had been 6 months since we had picked up a camera on course and a marked the beginning of the end of a period of immense angst, frustration and financial stress. Added to the stress was that full time industry photographers in Victoria were treated so differently to those across Australia and the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We made it back in time for Caulfield Guineas Day. It’s a really terrific day of racing, one that I’ve never missed since 1995. Even the lure of The Everest could not force me to miss Guineas Day, it’s one of the great days on the Australian Turf. I won’t deny that I felt hideously out of practice and was dead worried I would have lost my touch. We were positioned at about the 150m mark, and had no viewable access to the mounting yard or the horse stalls (bugger), but at least we were back. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Massive thanks to all of our clients who have stuck with us through thick and thin, and written letters of support for us, and to the friends from interstate who kept in communication with us. We didn’t want to be absent and it’s wonderful to be back on track.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQsWUjk3-yjxvSZk8NO_g7brwEIOjsQiCVLhgEIt21A2Wv0zhQfGWra2MPFw3jyjTEF7j-V4vFJX5iq7QE1nFHtzuOtdWGQI-i7GudBPVQvgwgtbP_KiD7sVmDqmJ7WWJqvNSriz1L4g/s2048/7B328BAB-B3B8-4E93-8DD8-6EB29F85C860.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQsWUjk3-yjxvSZk8NO_g7brwEIOjsQiCVLhgEIt21A2Wv0zhQfGWra2MPFw3jyjTEF7j-V4vFJX5iq7QE1nFHtzuOtdWGQI-i7GudBPVQvgwgtbP_KiD7sVmDqmJ7WWJqvNSriz1L4g/w640-h426/7B328BAB-B3B8-4E93-8DD8-6EB29F85C860.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DIRTY WORK (Written Tycoon) wins the G2 Schillaci Stakes</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUjc6A-rOKx0XvhS-OqHuTzTB9h4KCR0EVdYn5N8E3o3oyhrdgGwhfRzxvIIVSKVbok3ZJb4G6SGPN_66noCIlefsgTvIyChFWBkVm2bDQNy71XVpPld94XIFFO8SBebMkR176Ykh9Ng/s2048/4B21D7F8-6C85-4522-9D37-B8F17030F08D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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She's the dam of unbeaten BLACK CAVIAR (The Famous Pony), 4 time G1 winner ALL TOO HARD and NATURALE, now the dam of G1 Caulfield Guineas winner OLE KIRK (sired by WRITTEN TYCOON)</td></tr></tbody></table><br style="text-align: justify;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmamam9tmA-uDn2plLhzO0ao0Se6uCh-OuEAgJDuYnErs_ZoQqdIymVn1gJR0o-8SaJ8Igim7B5lDhDBpiF9Ftk4IDfV2e0yEw2wuCK9w6KPCkmFWXE6fucicid1fA_nM1e6sf8eo55s/s2048/159935F5-FFBD-4FBF-AF50-24D793D30075.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmamam9tmA-uDn2plLhzO0ao0Se6uCh-OuEAgJDuYnErs_ZoQqdIymVn1gJR0o-8SaJ8Igim7B5lDhDBpiF9Ftk4IDfV2e0yEw2wuCK9w6KPCkmFWXE6fucicid1fA_nM1e6sf8eo55s/w640-h426/159935F5-FFBD-4FBF-AF50-24D793D30075.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimyV2s0VQ_6CsPs7xwBMAD9xWfpUD8iBmQ5tom49buPvcIYs_ShSbiqymUBSeGkArRQAgWXDKjGEtjC0XpywDtrwGVNwRf66NaoTbUgn0V84mddmqpkaB1YsE2FFeG36rBzaXk8r894JI/s2048/9A8F4210-E7A1-4B2C-99B6-386ABBE19D64.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I felt impossibly nervous before the 1st race!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOXQl2xcjMI2bC1QuaMqBeuoNC59tapaMl-pdnn29lonzH9-aPFSSIbqmxnNckkvmPCz4rHm8DJuCRABuh1nRGCk-unJpKG_y5xvmxxV1rzqb6YU0w9c7jBzSN7wRDenhhyWGXet6B5mQ/s2048/47790713-E681-41CE-AF8C-DE93F3AB5178.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOXQl2xcjMI2bC1QuaMqBeuoNC59tapaMl-pdnn29lonzH9-aPFSSIbqmxnNckkvmPCz4rHm8DJuCRABuh1nRGCk-unJpKG_y5xvmxxV1rzqb6YU0w9c7jBzSN7wRDenhhyWGXet6B5mQ/w640-h426/47790713-E681-41CE-AF8C-DE93F3AB5178.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWy6N6rIalFBZeZb4z9lgPDktXO8b1s3qu9sBvAhitt4WmX35ZZv5pJmdvworpneuoYi-uveLQor7VMXMmRJFm6xA80gfEE5krrHsMF4yfL1p7pvDWqPux-AmR5nsGbpQyTNHVwNQcAEw/w640-h426/CC915808-B221-4979-8365-0F79C03ED804.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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Well, apart from being like an insufferable sad sack, she tries to keep her reflexes sharp and spirits up with some local feathered friends….. As always, thanks for the words of support and encouragement. 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font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">(Update: This post was never published - but almost 12 months ago I began putting this piece together because at the time I started, it seemed pretty obvious to me that SNITZEL, who will always be one of my favourite stallions, was about to emulate his fabled grandsire DANEHILL by becoming Australian Champion Sire four years in row. In doing so he would become the first stallion since Danehill, and only the 6th horse ever, to achieve this feat. And having worked so closely with the horse between 2008 and 2018 I wanted to say a few words about a stallion I had grown so close to (and yes, tell me it's a bad thing, but I do get emotionally attached to the horses I work with, it's what I do) </span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Out of no disrespect to Snitzel, my writing became extremely on-again-off-again, filled with all the starts and stops that seem to populate my life at the moment and are caused almost entirely by The Great Lockdown. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Before I get started on the horse's achievements, can I make it perfectly clear that I absolutely supported the lockdown, and at the time (and in the months afterwards) felt incredibly frustrated by the ongoing criticism of this strategy which did nothing but undermine the efforts of all of us who were desperately trying to help authorities bring the outbreak under control. Why? Because the moment every single state and territory border closed to basically all Victorians, a strong lockdown New Zealand style was the </span></span></span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">only</em><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> option. Time and time again I curse those who say we shouldn't have locked down and feel like curling up into a ball and begging </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">'can we just get it over and done with, and spare me all the wretched carrying on'</em><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> The border closures have absolutely smashed me. Australia wasn't meant to operate like this, and it has left my business hanging by a thread. All I can do is watch in desperation while others do the work I would usually undertake and hope desperately something will still be left at the end of it all, and count nervously how many the days there are between now and when my expensive camera insurance payment falls due. </span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">So basically all of this misery made me reluctant to write because being lumped in with Melbourne was been pretty awful (I mean honestly, it takes me about 1.5 hours to get to Flemington on a good day, the public transport is definitely rural standard and before the NBN arrived our internet connection speeds were TERRIBLE, so we don't feel like part of Melbourne at all here!) and basically The Great Lockdown really sucks. As a result I am frequently tense, cross and grumpy about the fact that seemingly </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">everyone</em><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> else is out there, and what's worse, they are playing with the horses that I should be able to play with too. Even when I had cancer nothing could keep me from the horses. I had radiation therapy on Melbourne Cup morning in 2014, when, sick as a dog, the awesome team at Peter Mac scheduled me a super early appointment so that I didn't miss treatment and get to the track on time. By the end of Cup week I was finished, and despite my intentions of photographing Zipping Classic day, I got up and said "</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I'm coming</em><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">", promptly threw up, gave it up as a lost cause and slept the rest of the day.</span></div><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The Great Lockdown involved a little thing called a nighttime curfew from 8pm - 5am every night for 8 weeks so no one was allowed out of their homes except for the four fairly strict reasons. We've not been allowed more than 5km from home for what seems like forever, and again, the comparisons with my sister who DOES live in Melbourne and what she can do within her 5km zone are VASTLY different to mine, because almost all of my 5km zone is paddocks and properties! I began to curse the fact I hadn't been able to escape with my kids for either my brother's house in Canberra or my mum's house in Sydney before the NSW Government turned draconian and nasty on Victorians. An unlucky chain of events meant my son was still in the 'actual' classroom being in Year 12, and I had 2 remaining photoshoots to complete (seriously, I've had 3 small shoots in 6 months, and yes, I am climbing the walls). In hindsight it was a very expensive clash of events because shortly afterwards both the kids were remote schooling and we were in complete lockdown. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">There's been a daily ritual of what used to be the "<em>11am Blues</em>" but is now the "<em>8.30am Ray of Hope</em>" or "<em>the after 9am</em> <em>Plunge Back Into Despair and doomsday visions of lockdown forever</em>" - later announcement of the daily numbers always seemed to correlate to bad news...., or what is actually called the daily DHHS release our all important numbers. I think Premier Daniel Andrews and the ever admirable CHO Professor Brett Sutton are doing everything in their power to bring the outbreak under control. Just when it looked like we were sailing along and an early release from Stage 4 could be possible, another couple of fresh outbreaks, caused by what appears to be unfathomable carelessness and perhaps a bit of stupidity, led to the recent Casey and Chadstone Clusters and made me again ponder unpleasant topics such as whether my business can possibly survive all of this and which of my clients will still be there for me when I finally emerge from the darkness. It makes me wonder about returning to a non racing/photography career although I guess it would be a horseless desert. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;">I wanted to do justice to this terrific stallion and as such I tried to be comprehensive in my research which meant it took even longer to complete. Writing and researching the horse gave me a bit of welcome relief. </span><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;">At the time I started the article my desk gradually became littered with scattered piles of notepaper which were crammed full of horse names, figures and facts, all scribbled in pencil. Naturally a variety of hard drives had to be dragged out, I mean, there <em>are</em> 15 years of Snitzel photos to pour through and OBVIOUSLY I had to do the beautiful boy justice. </span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Being a bit of a horse nerd I did know plenty of horses I was researching but my discoveries did throw up some facts and figures about a handful of stallions I either couldn't remember or didn't know about. There's also a bit of fun to be had when digging up old photographs from the past. It's ironic about the pictures taken on film because they remind me (1) of how long I've been doing this for, (2) how disorganised my negative collection became once I had little kids to look after and (3) how brilliant today's cameras and lenses are compared to the film cameras and older generation lenses we all used to shoot with. And at the time we all thought they were so razor sharp! </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The first horse to win Champion Sire four (4) years in succession was the great VALAIS (Cicero x Lily of the Valley). He was Champion Stallion for five consecutive years between 1923-1928 and the sire of HEROIC and the brilliant but notoriously temperamental Manfred, who was famous for winning the AJC Derby after flipping around and refusing to start until his rivals had travelled 100m. Heroic (Valais x Chersonese) was a champion racehorse (under today's system he'd have won 12 time Group 1 races) and once retired to stud he emulated his sire by becoming Champion Stallion for <em>seven</em> (7) consecutive seasons between 1932-1939 and siring champions like Ajax and the Melbourne Cup winner Hall Mark along the way. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Next came the five time Champion Stallion DELVILLE WOOD (Bois Roussel x Everlasting) between 1952-1957. He sired horses like as Evening Peal (who won the 1995 VRC and Queensland Oaks and the 1956 Melbourne Cup) and Hydrogen. The latter was a real champion and won the equivalent of 6 Group 1 races, including the Cox Plate twice, Caulfield Guineas, Rosehill Guineas, VRC Derby and Mackinnon Stakes although he wasn't a very successful stallion. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Following immediately on from Delville Wood came the breed shaping stallion STAR KINGDOM (Stardust x Impromptu) who was imported from England in 1951 by Stanley Wootton. Like Snitzel he wasn't a big horse but he became one of Australia's most influential stallions, and was Champion Stallion five times. He won his first four titles in succession between 1958-1962 and his fifth title came in 1964-1965. It's worth pausing for a moment to remember that without Star Kingdom there would have been no Biscay (and no Bletchingly, Kingston Town, Canny Lad, Star Watch, Emancipation, etc), Marscay, Kaoru Star (no Luskin Star, or grandson Bonecrusher to name a few), Noholme the brilliant full brother to champion Todman - winner of the 1st Golden Slipper Stakes), Planet Kingdom, the full brothers Sky High and Skyline, and the afore mentioned Todman is responsible for the sire of Super Impose, in Imposing. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">A host of champion stallions followed Star Kingdom, including SIR TRISTRAM (Sir Ivor x Isolt) a 6 time winner but only 3 times in succession and his champion son BLETCHINGLY (Biscay x Coogee) who was Champion Stallion 3 years in a row as well. However it was not until the arrival in 1990 of the Juddmonte Farms bred horse DANEHILL (Danzig x Razyana) that a stallion won four successive sires titles. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Danehill is to date the most successful stallion to ever stand in Australia. He won the winner of the G1 Haycock Sprint Cup in England before being imported to Australia by John Messara. The horse stood at the original Arrowfield Stud at Jerry's Plains, which is now Coolmore Australia, under a joint venture between the two farms and made an immediate impact by becoming Champion Sire with his first crop. He sired Danzero from that first crop (1994 Golden Slipper), Danasinga and Danarani. In his second crop he sired FLYING SPUR (1995 Golden Slipper) and Nothin' Leica Dane. From his third crop was his 3rd successive Slipper winner MERLENE, Dane Ripper, Magic of Sydney and Danendri. He won his first three titles in consecutive years (1994-95; 1995-96; 1996-97) but lost the title temporarily to his great contemporary ZABEEL (Sir Tristram x Lady Giselle) in 1997-98 and 1998-99. Danehill returned to the top of the mountain and reigned supreme as Champion Australian Stallion for further six consecutive seasons between 1999 to 2005, in the process leaving champion sons on the track and the breeding barn in COMMANDS, REDOUTE'S CHOICE, EXCEED AND EXCEL and FASTNET ROCK and a slew of Group 1 winners. All up he was Champion Australian Sire on nine occasions, Leading Sire of France in 2001 and 2007, and leading sire of Great Britain/Ireland in 2005, 2006, 2007. It was during this period Danehill was purchased outright by Coolmore and he stood his last season in Australia in 2001, leaving Australian shores for the last time on 18 December 2001 before dying in Ireland on 13 May 2003 at 17 years old. It's been said Danehill benefitted because he was a total outcross for the Star Kingdom line mares in Australia, a fact which is not lost on those evaluating the comparative achievements of Snitzel who didn't enjoy this advantage. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb6a6179c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=971a5f9a6aa7ae1306136d465de41d6d" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb6a6179c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=971a5f9a6aa7ae1306136d465de41d6d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">DANEHILL<br />(Danzig x Razyana)<br /><em>Bred and raced by Juddmonte Farms. <br />I only photographed Danehill once, on my first trip to <br />the Hunter Valley, on a boiling hot December in 1997.<br />This image ran widely on his death in 2003.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">In perhaps in a nod to what would come to pass, Danehill was eventually deposed as the King of Australian Stallions by his own son REDOUTE'S CHOICE, a four time Group 1 winner who had been purchased by John Messara to stand at his new Arrowfield Stud property in the Segenhoe Valley in Scone. Redoute's Choice retired to stud in the spring of 2000 and became a triple Champion Stallion although not in successive years. He is also (to date) is also a dual Champion Broodmare Sire, a legacy you would expect him to improve on and is arguably the most successful sire son of Danehill. He is the sire of Snitzel, and among his many great progeny he was the sire of Golden Slipper winners Miss Finland and Stratum, champion sprinter Lankan Rupee, multiple group 1 winning filly Samantha Miss, five time group 1 winner The Autumn Sun and dual group 1 winning 2yo King's Legacy. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e90019eba9d2.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d26eb1d3766928279a25099ba32c8aec" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e90019eba9d2.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d26eb1d3766928279a25099ba32c8aec" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: center;">REDOUTE'S CHOICE and </span>John Messara<span data-mce-style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;">Back to the pin up boy! Snitzel, born on 24 August 2002, was a very good racehorse, winning the 2004 Breeders' Plate, the 2005 Skyline Stakes and Up and Coming Stakes and during his final campaign in the autumn of 2006 he won the G2 Challenge Stakes and the G1 Oakleigh Plate. He was trained by Gerald Ryan who has since trained many of Snitzel's successful runners on the track. I didn't photograph Snitzel very many times on the track because when he was a two I was heavily pregnant with my daughter and she was a baby during his three year campaign. His Oakleigh Plate win was on one of the very few Blue Diamond Stakes Days I have missed after finding travelling with 2 young children was a bit tricksy particularly as one was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was only 18 months old. He also ran globetrotting champion sprinter TAKEOVER TARGET to half length when second in the G1 Newmarket Handicap, then won the Challenge before finishing third in the G1 TJ Smith Stakes and 4th in the G1 All Aged Stakes which was his final race.</span><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f23e5741ad7e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8f0cf531e2364641b0029c51ddcef29d" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f23e5741ad7e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8f0cf531e2364641b0029c51ddcef29d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;">SNITZEL winning the 2005 Up and Coming Stakes.<br /><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f23e57fe77e8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=186ed1f8253f29161b80d9c385841564" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f23e57fe77e8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=186ed1f8253f29161b80d9c385841564" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /><br /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;">Cantering to the barrier before running 2nd in the Newmarket Handicap.</span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;">Snitzel stood his first season at Arrowfield in the Spring of 2006 and I first photographed him at the farm in April 2008. I was immediately drawn to the horse and truth be told he's always been a delight to work with. He had to earn his accolades the hard way and for a number of my earlier shoots he wasn't really on my main 'to do' lists but whenever he was in front of the camera he just did everything right. There were never any hairy moments with him, hysterics and silliness were beneath him, yet he would always swell his charisma and style, sit down on his haunches and give me that lovely 'noble horse' outline almost every time I worked with him. He's a little bit like a coiled spring, and arches his neck and has great collection. With every horse I work with I need to first work out the idiosyncrasies of their shape, and Snitzel, with his big strong jowls, is no exception and because he's so sensible a prancing walk doesn't leap out of him every time, but the paddock really is his forte.</span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237ebaa89ab.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=26ee04cf378c4cab0fccae9cd99fee19" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237ebaa89ab.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=26ee04cf378c4cab0fccae9cd99fee19" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /> </span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb707358.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=de3f7afd3b3a1a80b5e316c84a4c2d68" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb707358.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=de3f7afd3b3a1a80b5e316c84a4c2d68" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb8c32e8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9214086b571751bce457ac5f76229b02" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb8c32e8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9214086b571751bce457ac5f76229b02" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>From my first shoot in 2008, when I was still learning the ropes. He always forgave my inexperience, and <br />it's interesting looking back over past shoots </em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c47faba38.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3e41ea47ac5b8097419bef1d35c9cf2d" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c47faba38.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3e41ea47ac5b8097419bef1d35c9cf2d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c4886c470.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a4b0a6505bbf84cc0c53e479975b8e81" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c4886c470.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a4b0a6505bbf84cc0c53e479975b8e81" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c48600e56.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=5438aa720aa9340278141e859e919411" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c48600e56.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=5438aa720aa9340278141e859e919411" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c46ba3d2a.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=ecd3466a01b5215a7fe6288f4f3d0030" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f24c46ba3d2a.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=ecd3466a01b5215a7fe6288f4f3d0030" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb0aba55.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=5a766315c7a51270589614a191f864af" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb0aba55.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=5a766315c7a51270589614a191f864af" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb1111d6.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8c36db34f351dbc0b080d39e13e58dbd" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f237eb1111d6.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8c36db34f351dbc0b080d39e13e58dbd" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">He's still a young horse in these pictures. These were all taken between 2009 and 2011. <br />He's still growing and the bulking up was still to come. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74137b62.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6afa0c9a0992fd4bd49017ea4cb4f4d9" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74137b62.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6afa0c9a0992fd4bd49017ea4cb4f4d9" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc739c8c82.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=43f3661ac6288047e08f136e6453f55b" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc739c8c82.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=43f3661ac6288047e08f136e6453f55b" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc73ab8cb0.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=584c3091250bd21af87be7c2a442deb3" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc73ab8cb0.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=584c3091250bd21af87be7c2a442deb3" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350fc68b56.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=137e2803f218396f4a2e1cd12548476c" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350fc68b56.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=137e2803f218396f4a2e1cd12548476c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /> </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350e558f07.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9d539d63bef1ad861621ac310843008f" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350e558f07.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9d539d63bef1ad861621ac310843008f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350db7947e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2199fa0bededba7afae8c5b95483e24f" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350db7947e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2199fa0bededba7afae8c5b95483e24f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350e13e15c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1ddf7f1365ed9c54fe4b57b30113ffc7" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350e13e15c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1ddf7f1365ed9c54fe4b57b30113ffc7" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350b7bccda.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a01e076808f540f4dc40a3cf8ff90115" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350b7bccda.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a01e076808f540f4dc40a3cf8ff90115" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350a696067.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d4989f3f6b2b6976966413cb0a3b2d45" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f4350a696067.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d4989f3f6b2b6976966413cb0a3b2d45" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8efc649f2.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=acdfc3146687219ddc3dfabc629f3d8f" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8efc649f2.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=acdfc3146687219ddc3dfabc629f3d8f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"> </span></p>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-16727302306837880402020-07-25T12:02:00.004+10:002021-07-16T12:03:57.605+10:00Stallions, in the Year of the Great Pandemic<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Somehow I feel like life as we knew it is a distant memory. Only a little over a month ago we thought we were close to getting back to some form of normal but suddenly things are deadly serious again. 2020 really is turning in to a bastard of a year, and even though we have only just broken through the halfway mark of the Year of the Virus it is safe to say that I'm well and truly over it. </span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Here in Victoria the last month has been <em>thoroughly</em> depressing. I'm a relatively newly domesticated Victorian, having spent my entire life up until 2014 in the ACT which basically made me a NSW person. I like our new life here on the Mornington Peninsula though. We sit a little outside of Melbourne, and Victoria is a really nice place to live, however right now it feels like I'm definitely in the <em><strong>wrong</strong></em> place at the <em>wrong</em> time. I'm desperately worried about the closure of the NSW-Victoria border in Australia and it is pretty bloody awful to be arbitrarily cut off from the rest of the country no matter what your covid status is or how carefully you are living your life and to be subject to those generalised claims being made across the country about 'those bloody awful Victorians'. The Queensland border doesn't bother me nearly as much. I am usually only there in January and tend to miss their other sales due to being in either Sydney or Europe, but the NSW border is deeply concerning and has me more than a little worried about my economic survival in an industry I've devoted the best part of my life to.. It also cuts me off from seeing my mum in Sydney and my brother and nephews in Canberra. I worry about my mum, because she lives on her own and is getting on in age. Usually I spend a number of weeks with her when I'm working in Sydney and in the Hunter and it means I can be there keeping her company and helping out with things regularly during the year. I miss my brother a lot as well, not to mention one of my best friends lives in Sydney however we're talking on the phone a lot and are trying to help each other through at the moment and everyone is just hoping that the border closure is only going to be short term and that the numbers will come back under control here. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">But..... back to horses....... Specifically stallions. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The first point is champion SNITZEL is about to be the first stallion since his grandsire Danehill to win Champion Stallion four years in a row. It is a wonderful achievement from a remarkable horse. Snitzel was only a young stallion when I first photographed him at Arrowfield so I've been with him all the way and no-one will be prouder than me come August 1st. Snitzel gave me the feeling he would be a champion from the first day I photographed him in his paddock at Arrowfield Stud in April 2008. Shortly after this, when I was on one of my trips to Melbourne, I spoke of this prediction to two people. I said if I had both money and a broodmare (naturally I had neither!) there was only one stallion I would be sending said horse to, and I was convinced he would be a champion stallion. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">My confidence in the young stallion was based purely on the feel Snitzel had given me in the paddock that day. The thing with Snitzel is his motor and his mind. Aside from the fact that he was a tough, fast and sound racehorse he's also one of the kindest stallions I've ever worked with. He fills with presence the minute you take the head collar off him in the paddock, he's always the consummate professional and like his barn mate Singles (Not a Single Doubt), he just <em>wants</em> to please. Ironically the person I'd talked to so enthusiastically about Snitzel was the man who would later become my specialist. Neil was the partner of one of my good friends, and in 2014 he saved my life when I had cancer. Neil allowed me to stick around for my family's sake and on a professional note he made it possible to photograph Winx, Frankel, Invincible Spirit, Sea the Stars, Galileo, American Pharoah, <em>and </em>stick around long enough to document Snitzel at Arrowfield throughout these four Champion Stallion titles. Snitzel, like the aforementioned, demonstrate the wisdom of the late, great, Les Carlyon who convinced me long ago that pedigree and conformation were not enough on their own, and that I had to look inside every horse I photographed:</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em data-mce-style="text-align: center;">"The youngster is led out of the box, you inspect the chassis, and, if you are feeling brave, pronounce it sound. But you cannot see the motor. You cannot see things like courage or the killer instinct, the things that make champions".<br /><br /></em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f15155a99909.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=51be07dcc7dfcbcf5050bfa9d2e645ae" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f15155a99909.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=51be07dcc7dfcbcf5050bfa9d2e645ae" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f151552df74b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9606f560ead6a1f593e0d0496faaf6bc" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f151552df74b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9606f560ead6a1f593e0d0496faaf6bc" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f151543d7016.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3a6b50fdca3e7c052612b6a78eae33a1" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f151543d7016.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3a6b50fdca3e7c052612b6a78eae33a1" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1517dce63ef.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3c8f37ce74494e1d11d7963eb882d3cc" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" height="738" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1517dce63ef.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3c8f37ce74494e1d11d7963eb882d3cc" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="491" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/2048_590bab6f6a075.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=4dfdc3d3a686f1b36837e3b903faa3b1" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/2048_590bab6f6a075.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=4dfdc3d3a686f1b36837e3b903faa3b1" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br /><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/2048_590bac480b79c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b57b769e3b187a6c125b2107dbacd949" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/2048_590bac480b79c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b57b769e3b187a6c125b2107dbacd949" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74137b62.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6afa0c9a0992fd4bd49017ea4cb4f4d9" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74137b62.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6afa0c9a0992fd4bd49017ea4cb4f4d9" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>The great SNITZEL, including a few very old frames from that first day in 2008 at Arrowfield. <br />He's always been fun and likes to give me practice at turning and panning with him.<br />Please forgive my inexperience in the early shots! </em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">One key change is champion Victorian stallion WRITTEN TYCOON relocating from his home at Woodside Park Stud in Tylden for the 2020 Season to stand at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley in a joint venture between Arrowfield and Woodside Park studs. While it was unexpected I've decided that nothing should surprise me anymore in 2020!!! Less surprising was the news that Japanese shuttle stallions were unable to travel to Australia so while I'm on the subject of Woodside Park it is good to know that their young stallion Tosen Stardom (Deep Impact) is permanently based in Australia, plus Coolmore has committed to returning Saxon Warrior so at least these two horses ensure Australia still has access to sons of Deep Impact.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eab70d9b611a.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f9ca307d824ca20c9713760b4b285bc6" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eab70d9b611a.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f9ca307d824ca20c9713760b4b285bc6" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ef39dcbd.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=aac344f9bd21ad29e88d8a689bb08bb1" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ef39dcbd.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=aac344f9bd21ad29e88d8a689bb08bb1" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>WRITTEN TYCOON</em><br /><em>(Iglesia x Party Miss)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc71601e97.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2d155d29d620d82c511f1b7c36ae6825" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc71601e97.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2d155d29d620d82c511f1b7c36ae6825" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc717928d3.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b44749e632c79e71f1e63e27377160b6" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc717928d3.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b44749e632c79e71f1e63e27377160b6" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>TOSEN STARDOM</em><br /><em>(Deep Impact x Admire Kirameki)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">On to Darley: the Blue Army have committed to standing some <em>trooooly</em> lovely stallions this year. Among the new boys are TOO DARN HOT (Kelvinside) and BLUE POINT (Northwood Park) who will shuttle to Australia. I think they are both smashing horses, both were brilliant racehorses and are by absolute champions in DUBAWI and SHAMARDAL. Another new addition is the young Exceed and Excel stallion MICROPHONE who hails from a very successful Australian family and was a Group 1 winner at 2 years. He's a gorgeous looking horse and on the first shoot with him he was completely professional and just a delight to work with. In addition to their new boys, perennial favourites Exceed and Excel and Lonhro will lead another impressive roster where a number of their younger stallions ASTERN, FROSTED, HOLLER and TERRITORIES are expecting their first runners to hit the track during 2020-2021 and HARRY ANGEL will have his first foals due, and horses like IMPENDING and RIBCHESTER (standing in NZ this season) will have their first yearlings sell and stallions like Exosphere, Kermadec, Brazen Beau and Shooting to Win should consolidate the nice starts they have made to their stallion careers.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eabb48e9d096.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=22a6bf329c53c9cbd8fc07f0df3454b2" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eabb48e9d096.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=22a6bf329c53c9cbd8fc07f0df3454b2" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>TOO DARN HOT</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74ca7c99.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c959e86a527d7db4b34181878d4fc693" data-mce-style="text-align: center; cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74ca7c99.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c959e86a527d7db4b34181878d4fc693" style="border: 0px; cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>You'd be forgiven if at first glance you thought this was a photo of BLUE POINT. </em><br /><em>It's actually his sire SHAMARDAL, but Blue Point looks just like him.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b899d2fab9.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=02eb15536297f9d06ef534ecc82daf97" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b899d2fab9.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=02eb15536297f9d06ef534ecc82daf97" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b89a219c2f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3e66f166fd965818eff2f4cdf4a1ee94" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b89a219c2f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3e66f166fd965818eff2f4cdf4a1ee94" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b89a7e7708.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=649ad10fb0eb320386ad3afe17911d45" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b89a7e7708.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=649ad10fb0eb320386ad3afe17911d45" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">MICROPHONE<br />(Exceed and Excel - Sung)</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8f07c71ec.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=793c70ad59d6e915cb053db8d435c504" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8f07c71ec.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=793c70ad59d6e915cb053db8d435c504" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea53102e3f1a.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=69f335cba0ea192163232fb693fa045b" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" height="494" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea53102e3f1a.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=69f335cba0ea192163232fb693fa045b" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="742" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5303c6f158.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=049fc57bb0fdef6a2d13cfd080213550" data-mce-style="cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" height="590" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5303c6f158.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=049fc57bb0fdef6a2d13cfd080213550" style="border: 0px; cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="737" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>EXCEED AND EXCEL<br /></em><em>(DANEHILL x PATRONA)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8d1e13f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c234314aa200bafd7c9783b1d475c3e6" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" height="742" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8d1e13f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c234314aa200bafd7c9783b1d475c3e6" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="494" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">IMPENDING<br />(Lonhro x Mnemosyne)</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eab7a4e1.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1d4d875d4751424be0e0b4cd93f31071" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eab7a4e1.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1d4d875d4751424be0e0b4cd93f31071" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">HARRY ANGEL<br />(Dark Angel x Beatrix Potter)</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eac22f27.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=406d64647424faefe6e786db209e711f" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eac22f27.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=406d64647424faefe6e786db209e711f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">The mighty LONHRO</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8ddb9d8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=5d997f60c33ba76742fab6ae9052b77c" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8ddb9d8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=5d997f60c33ba76742fab6ae9052b77c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">BRAZEN BEAU</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8ddb604.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=fc2939f713b7e65be1ed6ad58c834c9c" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8ddb604.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=fc2939f713b7e65be1ed6ad58c834c9c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">STREET BOSS</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ea284f49.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8ee669b1138f525d240565b97c4f7079" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ea284f49.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8ee669b1138f525d240565b97c4f7079" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8dd7c5a.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f7ed50ab618e486d27243f1c995f239e" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8e8dd7c5a.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f7ed50ab618e486d27243f1c995f239e" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">FROSTED<br />(Tapit x Fast Cookie)<br /><em>Just quietly, I'm loving having a silver stallion to photograph. It's a bit like having your own King of the Cascades, Thowra.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Turning to Coolmore, they are bringing two freshman stallions in CALYX and MAGNA GRECIA to Australia. Calyx is a son of the KINGMAN (by INVINCIBLE SPIRIT) who we know so well from Juddmonte Farms while Magna Grecia is a son of our lovely INVINCIBLE SPIRIT who continues to turn out Group 1 winners from his home at the Irish National Stud. Coolmore also have resident stallions Rubick and Pierro who both had very good 2019-2020 seasons and Rubick will be joined by his Everest winning son YES YES YES and the farm is also bringing back their two high profile Triple Crown champions AMERICAN PHAROAH and JUSTIFY.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74fd7620.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=477ec20bf8304fef2457ef23a2eefeeb" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" height="488" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74fd7620.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=477ec20bf8304fef2457ef23a2eefeeb" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="733" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>PIERRO</em><br /><em>(Lonhro x Miss Right Note)</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7509578c.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=0b96a0d7df92dd92540fc574e31edc2e" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7509578c.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=0b96a0d7df92dd92540fc574e31edc2e" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>RUBICK</em><br /><em>(Encosta de Lago x Sliding Cube)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Arrowfield retired CASTELVECCHIO to stud and the dual Group 1 winning three year old son of Dundeel will stand alongside his sire in Scone. THE AUTUMN SUN, SHOWTIME and REAL STEEL will have their first foals arrive this season, and it will be exciting to watch the new SHALAA, MAURICE and MIKKI ISLE babies step out during 2020/2021.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12b2d2221f0.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d51572b5725c110c650d44d5876f1bf2" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12b2d2221f0.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d51572b5725c110c650d44d5876f1bf2" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> <em>CASTELVECCHIO<br /></em><em>(Dundeel x St Therese)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ebcba46d.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=65407add0de9fd367247ca10cf482621" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ebcba46d.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=65407add0de9fd367247ca10cf482621" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb475f2cb.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e149e52e78396714a156110050adac62" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb475f2cb.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e149e52e78396714a156110050adac62" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eb4b5a83.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f1ad6f323df509346b8cec92fa2f3987" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eb4b5a83.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f1ad6f323df509346b8cec92fa2f3987" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">THE AUTUMN SUN<br />(Redoute's Choice x Amiyna)<br />This was just a snapshot because I was told there wasn't time enough to stand him up properly, but you'd be forgiven if you called him "The Body"</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8efcb8eb6.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=068d588258312a7f8fb37137c897ff56" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8efcb8eb6.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=068d588258312a7f8fb37137c897ff56" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">DUNDEEL<br />(High Chaparral x Stareel)</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Following on from mentioning Castelvecchio, another son of Dundeel will stand over the water in New Zealand after Waikato Stud purchased the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas winner SUPER SETH. Yulong Farm's gorgeous son of Redoute's Choice, ALABAMA EXPRESS, has retired to stand alongside GRUNT at the farm which is located near Nagambie. The handsome bay will be a welcome addition to the Victorian breeding industry and I'm personally pretty excited about the development of this lovely farm. Their new stallion barn is almost finished and they have some beautifully bred horses coming through. From a racetrack perspective, in particular the Cox Plate, I'm a teeny bit disappointed these successful middle distance horses will not race on at four, but as everyone keeps saying, 2020 isn't a normal year and while it is disappointing to lose these three colts, in the climate of uncertainty created by COVID-19 it's not surprising. Remarkably, all three horses were bred and sold by Arrowfield Stud in 2018. Another 3yo colt to retire is G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes champion EXCEEDANCE. He will call Vinery Stud home and I can't wait to meet him properly. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea531f02e679.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9ec7a027ff414d939461923cdb851799" data-mce-style="cursor: se-resize !important;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea531f02e679.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9ec7a027ff414d939461923cdb851799" style="border: 0px; cursor: se-resize !important;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>SUPER SETH<br /></em><em>(Dundeel x Salutations)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12ab31889e4.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6a32ea3e65bc526a1eb42a581b7eea30" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12ab31889e4.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6a32ea3e65bc526a1eb42a581b7eea30" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12ab1a59c00.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c833854cf31087645ba5f65458491ec7" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12ab1a59c00.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c833854cf31087645ba5f65458491ec7" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12ab5370292.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1cd2af5238cda3dedad8f15fbfea4f8f" data-mce-style="text-align: start; cursor: se-resize !important;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f12ab5370292.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1cd2af5238cda3dedad8f15fbfea4f8f" style="border: 0px; cursor: se-resize !important; text-align: start;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>ALABAMA EXPRESS</em><br /><em>(Redoute's Choice x Lago Ovation)</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;">Twin Hills have taken over ownership of HALLOWED CROWN (Street Sense) and this young stallion who is a half brother to successful stallion Needs Further recently had his first Group 1 winner Colette win the G1 Australian Oaks in April. The filly is from his first crop to race so this was great news for the wonderful partnership of Olly and Amber Tait. </span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5313821dbb.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=afce07b0c4d5b485e71b3a9284d11835" data-mce-style="cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5313821dbb.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=afce07b0c4d5b485e71b3a9284d11835" style="border: 0px; cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> <em data-mce-style="text-align: center;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;">HALLOWED CROWN<br /></span></em><em><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;">(Street Sense x Crowned Glory)</span></em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;">Spendthrift Australia are shuttling OMAHA BEACH and VINO RUSSO, they were both cracking racehorses and smashing types, and I'm a little excited to see them both. Yours truly breathed a massive sigh of relief at the news that they had touched down successfully in Australia this week along with many other Darley and Coolmore shuttle stallions. We were reasonably confident the shuttle stallions would be ok, but you can never tell until they board the plane and it's here on Australia soil. Spendthrift are a fun, positive and progressive farm and I hope the weather in the region will be kind to us! In a nice turn of events their stallion manager is the truly excellent Steve Toole who was working at Arrowfield when I first started doing their stallions and then moved to Darley before becoming stallion manager at Spendthrift. He's always been super positive and enthusiastic during photoshoots and is always open to new ideas and that's a lot of fun. Also in Victoria are Aquis and they are welcoming NEEDS FURTHER and ROYAL MEETING to join LEAN MEAN MACHINE at their new Victorian base and I hope I'll be working with all three stallions this spring as well as doing some of the latter's first foals.</span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">On a bit of a sad note for me 2020 marks the first year that Australia's stallion ranks will be without two perennial champion stallions following the retirement of NOT A SINGLE DOUBT and the return to America permanently of 'my Black Horse', MORE THAN READY. My fondness for both stallions is well known but it's nice to think there will be several more good horses to add to their records before we call time on their careers.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1524ab2ffd7.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=fc82fb85c69a292eb9b31678ee0f55ca" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1524ab2ffd7.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=fc82fb85c69a292eb9b31678ee0f55ca" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb76943d5.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8d696e9d264ab5d439542fd6a6d49212" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb76943d5.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8d696e9d264ab5d439542fd6a6d49212" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffbbc04e8a.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=bd5411caea3140e8f2664aed0b79a619" data-mce-style="text-align: start; cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffbbc04e8a.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=bd5411caea3140e8f2664aed0b79a619" style="border: 0px; cursor: se-resize !important; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>NOT A SINGLE DOUBT</em><br /><em>(Redoute's Choice x Singles Bar)<br /></em><em>From one of the very first photos I ever took of "Singles" to one of the very last.<br />I have loved my time working with this gorgeous boy, and loved <br />cataloguing the ever growing list of his Group 1 winners on the track.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6ec64518.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=da9713d1fac149bd5a06bf478542840f" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6ec64518.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=da9713d1fac149bd5a06bf478542840f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /> </em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dc5bc4d.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b63f6c4ca3a922bef99f525be610213d" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dc5bc4d.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b63f6c4ca3a922bef99f525be610213d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dd61735.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8ae66fb33461aa906b43b2ea428e9cfa" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dd61735.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8ae66fb33461aa906b43b2ea428e9cfa" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dd613b6.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=44cdf1707c70dcd0420006003fba49c7" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dd613b6.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=44cdf1707c70dcd0420006003fba49c7" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dd6556b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=222d3a396bcab3a9aa4f2a9c61e3de32" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bb6dd6556b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=222d3a396bcab3a9aa4f2a9c61e3de32" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8fff7faa370.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=784425bcb69a4dee5fae594538d769ee" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8fff7faa370.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=784425bcb69a4dee5fae594538d769ee" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>MORE THAN READY</em><br /><em>(Southern Halo x Woodman's Girl)<br />As with 'Singles', a little 'look back' at The Black Horse through the lens</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">We lost our northern hemisphere season in England and Ireland to COVID-HORRIBLE-19, which I'm still cranky about, but these are a few fun images we took over the last couple of years.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ee929540.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=fd3f51c3b14d8e9524293f7afefbd9fd" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ee929540.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=fd3f51c3b14d8e9524293f7afefbd9fd" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">GALILEO the Great</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ee16510b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=52340208695ce779bca484a56a4c98b3" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ee16510b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=52340208695ce779bca484a56a4c98b3" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">FREE EAGLE</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ecc10dc2.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2f980c2a91b000b55406ec4680a8483c" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ecc10dc2.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2f980c2a91b000b55406ec4680a8483c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ecfa29d7.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=cfbec3669cfbcd6e03a9c1f7634aa796" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ecfa29d7.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=cfbec3669cfbcd6e03a9c1f7634aa796" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eccb51eb.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=ae0dff89c83b4840d6a3f290cf38b9b5" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eccb51eb.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=ae0dff89c83b4840d6a3f290cf38b9b5" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ec545809.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e575ad1764cf7ef79509b71670dd814c" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ec545809.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e575ad1764cf7ef79509b71670dd814c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">NATIONAL DEFENSE</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ebd68d53.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7516426f1100ea6f71179f11c55e1750" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ebd68d53.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7516426f1100ea6f71179f11c55e1750" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">FRANKEL ... best friends forever..... We miss you</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ebe7ee02.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9bec0e74abb19af01c5ee49157083c56" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ebe7ee02.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9bec0e74abb19af01c5ee49157083c56" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ed553bb3.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9166c60f507ea173a8623d513a78ef31" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ed553bb3.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9166c60f507ea173a8623d513a78ef31" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ed564a1b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=544c18ff6a538fee29b578e63f1930c6" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8ed564a1b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=544c18ff6a538fee29b578e63f1930c6" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eda380e5.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=81ca6682f5fd1082992474780b8a9d82" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1b8eda380e5.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=81ca6682f5fd1082992474780b8a9d82" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">My beautiful boy INVINCIBLE SPIRIT who we also really miss</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify;">We will be speaking with RVL about being allowed to photographed on track and I'm encouraged by the fact that worldwide specialist thoroughbred photographers are being allowed back on track (even in the United States where the pandemic continues to rampage completely out of control) so logic suggest that with the support of the industry specialist photographers like myself can get back to work. The border with NSW will be a bridge I will cross (sigh.... I actually have to cross a bridge!) in another month or so. I hope the industry supports each other and fear it will not be much of a carnival in either NSW or Victoria if Racing NSW in particular maintain their ban on horse movements and staff members. I feel very sorry for people in the border towns because their lives have been thrown in to total disarray. I hope that horses and people can soon once again move around Australia, just as they are in Europe where cases numbers are much higher, and that the Australian industry can create a supportive and collaborative framework with the right amount of safety precautions so people aren't forced out of the industry.</span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">In the meantime it is important for Victorians to stick together and for the breeding and racing industry here in Victoria to support each other and just be sensible. From a personal point of view, we continue to sit tight at home here on the pristine Mornington Peninsula and aside from when there is a shoot on we are only going out for absolute essentials. From midnight on Wednesday it became mandatory to wear a facemask when outside your house. They take some getting used to and in my case it gives me some swelling around that troublesome jawline but they are something I agree with wholeheartedly and having it enforced within schools is a relief seeing as my Year 12 son is back in the classroom. I went to the beach yesterday morning for a bit of light relief and everyone had a mask on so compliance is very high however I remain infuriated at those who are behaving like jerks about it all, in particular the deniers who put these fool hardy beliefs into defiant action like the repulsive woman who filmed herself while refusing to cooperate at the police checkpoint leaving Melbourne. It's people like that who will keep people out of jobs and ensure more Australians die if they continue this sort of behaviour, and they would do well to listen to the scientific and medical experts when it comes to stuff like this.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">In the meantime, stay safe, stay home where you can, wear a bloody mask and I will see you on the farms and racetrack (once we are granted permission to return) as soon as possible. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1baba30d9c9.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=dc52439d3bb07520994860630f042f3b" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1baba30d9c9.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=dc52439d3bb07520994860630f042f3b" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1babb53c0aa.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8f9ed2227dbe2a37cf026c748c786f3a" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1babb53c0aa.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8f9ed2227dbe2a37cf026c748c786f3a" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bad4ae15bf.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=36ca62200ad3fad197c834912297f94c" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bad4ae15bf.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=36ca62200ad3fad197c834912297f94c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bad4ae2000.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=cfe93ef00f396328f6643812114364df" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5f1bad4ae2000.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=cfe93ef00f396328f6643812114364df" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">(note - track work riders can exercise discretion while on board under RVL policies issued this week around the wearing of masks)</p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-1846848604711841092020-06-26T18:20:00.011+10:002021-07-17T18:34:18.496+10:00The Sale that ‘never’ was. The virtual Inglis Easter Yearling Sale<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is true that 2020 threw us all sorts of curve balls. To begin with, we didn’t take it seriously, never thinking that COVID-19 would turn in to a Global Pandemic. We didn’t think it would reach Australia, or spread wildly throughout the world. But it did and it all unfolded as we watched our TV screens is dismay and disbelief. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever anticipate that all our plans would be completely abandoned, that stay-at-home orders would be imposed, that you wouldn’t be able to travel interstate, or allowed to leave the country. Our trip to England and Ireland was called off (thankfully I had not hit ‘pay’ on the airfares I had reserved and was so close to committing to), the prestigious Inglis Easter Yearling Sale was conducted as a Virtual Sale with no people and NO HORSES on site. It was the first Easter Sale I’ve missed in I don’t know how many years. This is the Yulong draft, shot over a 3 month period, as they originally withdrew the draft when it went virtual, then re-entered them into Easter Round 2, amazingly held in July. Expect the unexpected became the motto of 2020.</span></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2vkJ-rPAe8eTdGm5OG8W5PrLkfYgJQFz4Zxo9yItom3SIFUoKSzeAiCyGvwUQzxckSb0E5Sj8DyQccqztEIs6C_s-cC8X6gusWi2j9Ie5D4rCT3sslNdMZGqYAu0xMNNRXuXeuI3XGc/s2048/0A016F58-7F2D-456C-83C4-593A977E63A3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2vkJ-rPAe8eTdGm5OG8W5PrLkfYgJQFz4Zxo9yItom3SIFUoKSzeAiCyGvwUQzxckSb0E5Sj8DyQccqztEIs6C_s-cC8X6gusWi2j9Ie5D4rCT3sslNdMZGqYAu0xMNNRXuXeuI3XGc/w426-h640/0A016F58-7F2D-456C-83C4-593A977E63A3.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirE4p-ZgocUIQeqqRgvd36Ppas1Y89XPulWom9Rik6oXw561CIUa9WpC5iShLVzlR4wmF9d8PN3vVPe8BCniuRk41Fid3VkJ63bnhgQUUrnzCEJcxIsshAprU2-0Z1crsc9XfPGqEQbW4/s2048/1A70A4B1-E7ED-417C-B687-FB426390CCE7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">It's a truth universally acknowledged that everything breaks at once and does so at the most inconvenient possible time. Not all that long before we all went in to lockdown one of my cameras starting playing up by freezing and displaying an '</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">ERR</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">' signal we photographers all dread. Not all the time, although typically it would do it at a key moment which would cause me to curse and do the classic 'turn it off and on again' trick (love that one). The camera, bought in 2014, had already had a new lease on life when I put a new shutter in it so it wasn't like I could complain about it's longevity because it'd done a heck of a lot of work. However the timing was poor. Luckily for me Nikon is always there to help, so we sent it off to the doctor and they gave me a loan camera to get me through. Also displaying an error was my lovely and reasonably new 70-200mm lens. It turns out the news on the lens was ok because they said it would be covered under warranty, however the D4s needed an another new shutter and front unit and because of it's age it doesn't make any sense to spend that amount of money on it. </span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Last week I walked in to my office and to my alarm saw on the iMac a black and unresponsive screen with a jagged pixelated thick line across it. Not so good I thought. I resorted to the tried and true 'turn it on and off again' trick when nothing else worked. It booted up without any hiccups much to my relief however it was apparent something was wrong because it was running really really slowly.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Wednesday was my daughter's 15th birthday so I didn't spend any time on the computer, although I'd been backing up a hard drive and it was taking forever so it was a good day to be away from the computer. When it finally finished I installed the software update that had been waiting which again took ages to complete. I kept making excuses for the machine, thinking <em>'it is just the old hard drive which is also really full, once the update installs it will be fine'</em>.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Thursday I must have been feeling virtuous because I gave my desk an enormous clean (with a wettex even) and reorganised all my cords and power units, however although I did a <em>terrific</em> job of rearranging all my powered devices, making sure they were plugged in to the UPS, I did a <em>less</em> terrific job of plugging the power cord back into the powered USB hub that runs my many portable hard drives. This really sucked because as soon as I plugged a second hard drive in to the hub it started making an appallingly bad clicking sound. By the time I realised what I'd done one of the hard drives was without a pulse and the USB hub had a nasty burning smell coming out of it and I think I'd smoked the pair them. Well done me I thought.... At this point we marched back out to Officeworks to buy yet another hard drive to replace the smoked one and attempted to buy a new powered hub but you guessed it, out of stock.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">On Friday, the Rainbow Wheel of Death appeared more and more often. Incidentally, did you know there's an acronym for that as well???? Yes, it's true, there is! It's the RWOD, or SRWOD if you add the "Spinning" in. Actually, I think it should be SFRWOD to be perfectly honest. I'll let you be the guess of what the "F" stands for in that phrase. Apparently the SFRWOD thinks we are <em>best</em> friends because whenever I did <em>anything</em> there it was. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">On Friday it got so bad that no matter how many bloody times I rebooted, and how many devices I unplugged, it became so unresponsive that in desperation I thought I'd do what I've been planning to do for ages, which was wipe the hard drive clean, reinstall the operating system and start again. Good plan.... So I stopped everything else I was doing, printed out the instructions from Apple Support because guess what under COVID-BLOODY-19 rules you can no longer ring AppleCare 7 days a week or just front up at an Apple Store looking hopeless and frazzled, and away I went and wiped the hard drive etc etc etc. This of course took ages, and on start up it was still slow and then it got snarly when I was trying to log in to iCloud. I finally gave up in disgust, watched a movie with the kids and had dinner.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Saturday the iMac was in a slightly better mood and allowed me to at least reinstall most of what I needed but the machine still gave me cause to scowl crossly and my best friend was <em>definitely</em> the SRWOD. Eventually it <em>again</em> stopped working altogether, leading me to <em>again</em> walk away in disgust. By Sunday afternoon the iMac must have started feeling sorry for me because after a v enjoyable morning for Mother's Day it suddenly started working (albeit still slowly) but at least I could start doing some things.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Then on Monday it decided it had had enough of being conciliatory, and had an almighty freeze and crash and then refused to log in again after rebooting it, leading me to suspect that there's more wrong with it than just software. Today I finally managed to get through to AppleCare (who were great) and we did all manner of things to no avail, and you guessed it, it is booked in to go to the Apple Doctor tomorrow afternoon.</p>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-84273817029142328822020-05-02T11:58:00.001+10:002021-07-16T11:59:57.473+10:00Musings on the Lockdown<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Admittedly this post has taken me a while to write. I start. I stop. Then I have to rewrite parts because they become past tense instead of present tense. New phrases of 2020. Lockdown. Isolation. "Iso" as those inclined to abbreviate everything call it. In my french class which I am struggling along with it is called 'Le confinement'. I'm not doing as well in french because the lockdown means I am not regularly doing my homework sessions with my class buddy Leigh. Other phrases include WFH (apparently this means Working From Home), SAH (Stay At Home), CAH (Children at Home) - more new acronyms. Mostly I hate acronyms because apart from the terrific WTF and FYI I can never remember half of them. The other thing about Lockdown is a growing obsession with numbers! How many news cases have we had and are these numbers stable, falling or rising? How are other countries going? How soon until we can ease restrictions? What's the mighty curve doing? Who would have thought.....</span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">So what's been happening? Well, more Saturdays watching races on television, in what at best is described as a thoroughly grouchy mood, instead of being there photographing them and this has sucked. Today is another a case in point although usually it is Darren that travels to Adelaide not me because by the first weekend in May I'm usually only just finished a number of long stints in Sydney. Sunlight and Away Game are preparing to contest the G1 Robert Sangster Stakes and the meeting will represent more Group 1 races lost from our library. It's also supposed to be Kentucky Derby weekend. I know many of my colleagues in America are feeling this keenly and perhaps the only saving grace is that so many of us are going through this together. Usually tomorrow morning I would be setting my alarm clock and trying to find a channel that is televising the Derby whilst simultaneously scanning Twitter waiting for the photos to appear. But as we are repeatedly reminded this isn't a usual year and racing remains locked down in many parts of America and across Europe and the Kentucky Derby has been postponed until September I think.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffeed85ea0.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=0f84a856dfd2fb4fdadc2c84bbc7aa10" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffeed85ea0.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=0f84a856dfd2fb4fdadc2c84bbc7aa10" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffbc10bd4e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6b42f170353cb457469e1842413520f2" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffbc10bd4e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=6b42f170353cb457469e1842413520f2" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e9002275a5b8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=629a64b33ded1412cd484ec6234d8d52" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e9002275a5b8.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=629a64b33ded1412cd484ec6234d8d52" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>Triple Crown champion from 2015 AMERICAN PHAROAH.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">It's incredibly frustrating being sidelined but I'm trying to take a glass half full viewpoint. Snitzel (bless him) had some excellent results over the past few weeks and this enabled him to leapfrog both Pierro <em>and</em> I Am Invincible and jump back to the top of the General Sires Tables. I'm of course hardwired to be delighted for Snitzel however I am beginning to think poor old I Am Invincible must be wondering what the <em>heck</em> he has to do to win a sires championship. The stallion affectionately known "Vinnie" has had an extraordinary rise through the stallion ranks over the past 4 or so years however he's yet to crack that elusive 2 Year Old G1 winner and despite breaking all sorts of records during 2018-2019 his great rival Snitzel remains as formidable as ever. Not only did Snitzel hold Vinnie off during that memorable 2018-2019 season but after a slow start to the season he now looks like a genuine chance to win his 4th successive Champion Sires title. He'd be the first stallion to do this since his grandsire Danehill.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb481d853.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=880d53d2c6a4c11816cf363e47fa419b" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb481d853.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=880d53d2c6a4c11816cf363e47fa419b" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7398bf1c.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=16c2282120e0efe87e27ecb33d5fc1e9" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7398bf1c.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=16c2282120e0efe87e27ecb33d5fc1e9" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7437d6c1.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a735a5530908d6b9db3e7d0a6f1e828d" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7437d6c1.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a735a5530908d6b9db3e7d0a6f1e828d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc72ca21d9.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=606d82fdcc879cd5df2bfd2157df68c4" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc72ca21d9.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=606d82fdcc879cd5df2bfd2157df68c4" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>While Snitzel hasn't sired the winner of a 2 year old Group 1 race (yet!!) this year, he </em><em>is the sire of<br />brilliant filly Away Game who won the Magic Millions 2 Year Old Classic so empathically in January</em>. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5332d407ab.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b091ef7a2170723fdfb0ec84d997cc2c" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5332d407ab.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=b091ef7a2170723fdfb0ec84d997cc2c" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /> <img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8fff28c744b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7c3e94fce3956adb3701531dd6775e0f" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8fff28c744b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7c3e94fce3956adb3701531dd6775e0f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>AWAY GAME (Snitzel) who just doesn't know how to give up or how to run a bad race. </em><br /><em>She's running in today's Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes at Morphetville.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb6a6179c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=971a5f9a6aa7ae1306136d465de41d6d" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb6a6179c.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=971a5f9a6aa7ae1306136d465de41d6d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>DANEHILL. Sire of Redoute's Choice. Grandsire of Snitzel. <br />And the last stallion to win 4 successive Champion Sire titles.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The late great Redoute's Choice sired King's Legacy (Champagne Stakes and Sires Produce), which when added to Tagaloa's win in the Blue Diamond and Farnan's victory in the Golden Slipper and gave Arrowfield Stud a remarkable clean sweep of all of the Two Year Old Group 1 races to be held this season with only the G1 JJ Atkins Stakes remaining in 2020. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc448b271.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8acf89b5d5510a554660c424b1421ab0" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc448b271.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=8acf89b5d5510a554660c424b1421ab0" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc04a6b5e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=103e923ffab7b9e10d8ee5f9d59465e5" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc04a6b5e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=103e923ffab7b9e10d8ee5f9d59465e5" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc0df1e8b.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=295adb9cb42ec86bb61aa84ac9d1c0a4" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc0df1e8b.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=295adb9cb42ec86bb61aa84ac9d1c0a4" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>FARNAN. This gorgeous colt capped off a briliant career for his now retired sire</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e90023b4f8d6.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=862cba9294424ccde12b221c37b66159" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e90023b4f8d6.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=862cba9294424ccde12b221c37b66159" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>NOT A SINGLE DOUBT</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb3fb203e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e7a0c01b6a52af1b4150b564affe1def" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb3fb203e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=e7a0c01b6a52af1b4150b564affe1def" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7559bdd4.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=ecfe135f24785079aa9fffaf69ba1299" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7559bdd4.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=ecfe135f24785079aa9fffaf69ba1299" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> <em>THE LEGEND. REDOUTE'S CHOICE. These are two of my favourite<br />images of the great stallion, in particular the one where he closed his eyes.<br /></em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">School holidays finished and we were headlong into home schooling for my two kids. The first week got very tricky straight away when we realised our NBN had stopped working completely. It took a further 24 hours to figure out that the home phone was also out so we called our provider Aussie Broadband (who incidentally have always been super and our NBN is usually pretty reliable and lovely and fast compared to the trainwreck that was ADSL with Telstra). They booked a service call and the NBN dude duly turned late on the Friday afternoon but when he cheerfully informed us someone else would have to come out to finish the fix and that would probably take another 4 days it felt like even more utterly bloody bad news, however much to our delight they came out the following day (on a Saturday no less!) and all of a sudden it was fixed and working again! We are so much happier on the NBN! We also discovered when trying to log in to the Google Classroom and Google Meet that my son's school laptop was hopelessly out of date in terms of its software which meant we couldn't install Google Meet, and we couldn't do any updates remotely because of the way it was configured. And then of course the school portal Compass kept crashing. However last week ran really smoothly and that was excellent and so far so good this morning! While I stress that I am 100% behind the Victorian Chief Medical Officer, I don't envy the parents of primary school kids who are trying to navigate this whole home school thing AND trying to work as well. We are some of the lucky ones. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Australia's numbers have turned around for the better so overall I think the short term pain is definitely worth it as we try to bring the numbers under control. But I still hate the changes COVID-BLOODY-19 is bringing to our social fabric. The school is usually a really friendly place. I've always been on first name basis with many staff at the front desk because a child with special needs means you get to be in and out of the school <em>all</em> the time. The receptionist at school barked at us sharply for putting a foot over the blue bloody line when she couldn't hear my son's password. This made me curse the virus under my breath, as did the presence of yet another security guard at our local supermarket on Anzac Day. Stepping around other customers is another reminder, as is the red webbing tape around the entire cash register at the post office, chemist, supermarket and produce store. So there are days when I walk out feeling thoroughly depressed and anxious about the state of the world and a desperate longing for it to all go away and be back to the way it was. And at times it makes me cross at non-locals who flout the stay-at-home orders by coming down to the Peninsula, as evidenced by the (quite pleasant) guy behind me in the checkout line at the IGA on Anzac Day when he'd cheerfully proclaimed that he wasn't from around here.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">There's been a string of sad news. The beloved Tim Brooke-Taylor, aka Tim of The Goodies, died aged 79 because of utterly bloody COVID-19. Tim was famous for turning in to a teapot when he panicked. I loved this about him. I grew up on a strict diet of The Goodies then Doctor Who and this was like a punch in the stomach. It seems profoundly unfair to me that the virus takes a person who was talented and beloved like Tim while other hideous people (like the tangerine tinted baboon) get off scott free. In response I got my Goodies DVD out that evening. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">We lost Might and Power to colic at 26 years of age. When he was racing my heart still belonged to Saintly and Octagonal and I probably didn't get as close to 'Mighty' as I otherwise would have while he was on the track however through my work with Living Legends I grew very fond of 'Bob' as they affectionately called him. The photos of my son, then aged 4, with the horse in the paddock formed a strong part of his identity as the gentle giant at Living Legends. I'm close to Andrew Clarke as well, and watching him breakdown on the news was pretty awful.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e9279d352e9d.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=850419e106f6539f556e1aa541cb6441" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e9279d352e9d.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=850419e106f6539f556e1aa541cb6441" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e9278bb0d0f8.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3d9348fcc898cbe0eb61d6d11d0c79f3" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e9278bb0d0f8.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3d9348fcc898cbe0eb61d6d11d0c79f3" style="border: 0px; 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cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5326ba4377.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c856c922efcfece88b88795b8943ee6f" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea5326ba4377.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c856c922efcfece88b88795b8943ee6f" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea532ceaa8ae.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=151b09b76ade2d785541e8e4a57f230c" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5ea532ceaa8ae.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=151b09b76ade2d785541e8e4a57f230c" style="border: 0px; 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cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e92790b522c4.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=cb6f27645a7e148ba22080fbff3cff48" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e92790b522c4.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=cb6f27645a7e148ba22080fbff3cff48" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e92782ddcf9e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f44c3457e38c7b48fea138bae5e1a64a" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e92782ddcf9e.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=f44c3457e38c7b48fea138bae5e1a64a" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e927850705de.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=367808e3aebfb99ae60c1bc0b0d95ed4" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e927850705de.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=367808e3aebfb99ae60c1bc0b0d95ed4" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e92786dade36.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=94491a70e44f848038cbd3454d11036a" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e92786dade36.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=94491a70e44f848038cbd3454d11036a" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And staying true to the saying that bad news comes in 3's, the thoroughbred industry lost champion Darley stallion Shamardal (or Shammy as I liked to call him) who died at only 18 years old which came as a surprise to me. I'd only photographed him a handful of times at Kelvinside Stud during the years that he shuttled here. He was a 4 time Group 1 winner in Europe, winning the Dewhurst Stakes at 2 years, the Prix du Jockey Club, Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Derby and Guineas) as well as the St James' Palace Stakes at 3 years. He was also beautifully bred being sired by "The Iron Horse" Giant's Causeway and out of the mare Helsinki who was a full sister to the mighty Street Cry. Shamardal then became a wonderful sire and we are incredibly lucky here in Australia as one of his newly champion sons Blue Point is due to stand the 2020 breeding season at Darley's beautiful Northwood Park stud here in Victoria and you'd like to think that Pinatubo may shuttle to Australia when he retires. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74ca7c99.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c959e86a527d7db4b34181878d4fc693" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74ca7c99.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c959e86a527d7db4b34181878d4fc693" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7484355b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3cffc40860950be5afff9d366cc9a5f8" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc7484355b.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=3cffc40860950be5afff9d366cc9a5f8" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74dca35e.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=63ec655cdb5a7578b8cd2a743dd1c859" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc74dca35e.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=63ec655cdb5a7578b8cd2a743dd1c859" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>Vale SHAMARDAL (Giant's Causeway x Helsinki)<br />Sire of Lope de Vega, Blue Point and Pinabuto to name but a few<br /></em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6e02505f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2663cdce5734e1970dde30b45f0ed5a5" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6e02505f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=2663cdce5734e1970dde30b45f0ed5a5" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc707960fa.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=69bd1777ff0b16f49984460b22c39387" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc707960fa.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=69bd1777ff0b16f49984460b22c39387" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6fb1aeea.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=38a407c86d06f496861523a9e185759d" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6fb1aeea.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=38a407c86d06f496861523a9e185759d" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eaccabde7437.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=860ce76093654ae64d3cab7832900398" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eaccabde7437.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=860ce76093654ae64d3cab7832900398" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6e024dfb.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c29477d8c023ab1ba85d368718b32854" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6e024dfb.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c29477d8c023ab1ba85d368718b32854" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6f703711.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7d68d86bd5c0c6a579678c0e30b88fb8" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc6f703711.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7d68d86bd5c0c6a579678c0e30b88fb8" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">The late STREET CRY (Machiavellian x Helen Street). <br />Champion stallion. Sire of the immortal WINX and ZENYATTA.<br />The 2nd frame is effectively his last portrait, taken Aug '14<br />The frame of his rearing is one of handler Steve Toole's favourites,<br />he was just playing that day, everyone adored him.</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc70a3da92.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d4ceed02b6dbef73b05d04522ade62fb" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5eacc70a3da92.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=d4ceed02b6dbef73b05d04522ade62fb" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><em>The immortal WINX. Winner of 4 Cox Plates. Pictured after the 3rd.</em></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Aside from all of the above we've popped down to the beach a couple of times in between the passing cold fronts. There's a wicked one upon us now and we have Freelance back in her winter clothes. I've been busy updating my website which was pretty out of date, trying to get all my paperwork to the accountant, archiving and backing up images from ages ago. This has become pressing because the old hard drives are fragile and a number of them have failed altogether so I'm trying to get a proper backup done. I've been editing a lot of pictures and getting them uploaded into the photo database. This is often fun because frequently I am way too busy and spend so much time driving that there are invariable loads of photos that I take which I never look at properly, much less edit, so this process is uncovering a number of hidden gems and plenty of photos I don't even remember taking!</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Oh, and for those of you interested or inclined to buy pretty photos of pretty horses, I'm currently running a COVID-BLOODY-19 Special, 30% off all orders over $150 - enjoy! The code is COVID-19</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="text-align: justify;" /> </p>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-31409495746752167422020-04-10T11:56:00.001+10:002021-07-16T11:58:30.368+10:00Pandemics are dreary things.... I miss our old life<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">It's a truth universally acknowledged that you usually only miss something when it's gone. I can't count how many times I have cursed the crowds at busy venues when working, or out and about, and how much I always said I hated having to push through people. When working and carrying all my camera equipment, some of which protrude a fair way out and thus limit my usual ability to slip unnoticed through small spaces, I suddenly transform into a serial apologiser and I find myself repeating the same lame excuses </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">'Excuse me ma'am, sorry sir, please sir can I just squeeze through there, oh goodness, I'm so sorry, oh bloody hell, whoops a daisies'</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">as I tried to ease my way through the heaving crowd, trying desperately not to bump into anyone with the end of my 500mm lens, or the camera hanging off my waist belt. Equally, trying to bend your torso suddenly to avoid having a hole burnt through whatever I'm wearing by someone's evil cigarete butt that smokers always seem to insist on (not</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">all</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">all selfishly) on holding as far away from their own body as is humanely possible, can prompt me to mutter expletives under my breath. </span></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Yet suddenly I'm missing crowds! Missing the atmosphere that a crowded room or venue would bring. Who would have thought!</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Which leads me to my conclusion that pandemics are completely dreary and that I hate the profound changes they can bring to society in such a short time. Yesterday afternoon I popped in to the supermarket to buy a few supplies. I live in a semi rural community but all of a sudden there was security guard in the local IGA. A security guard!!!!!!! It was a thoroughly depressing sight and while I smiled, said hello and happy easter, I hated every moment of it. Our supermarket is really nice, staffed by locals (including many kids) and almost always well stocked, even during the period highlighted by the thoroughly unlikable and locust-like behaviour of some. In a stark reminder of the times, you can instantly tell when they've had a delivery of toilet paper by the number of people hurrying back to their cars with a packet under their arm and a triumphant look on their face. That in itself is depressing enough! But security guards! In a grocery store!!!!! Here???!!!!!! I hate the idea of being suspicious about other people, of others being suspicious of me. Don't even think about touching anything and not buying, unless you're prepared to feel a hundred daggers suddenly thudding in to your back. And whatever you do DON'T sneeze. No matter how much pollen is swirling through the air! Much less cough!</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br />This year we are spending Easter at home. In any other year I would be at my Mum's house and would have spent the week immersed in the world of the thoroughbred (and watching quiz shows with mum when not around the sales). It really hurt to not be able to attend the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. I can't remember the last one I missed. April is a beautiful mild time of year, there are lots of people and friends around, and the horses are gorgeous. I don't usually edit all the sale photos straight away. Typically they are like secret treasures hidden away and wait to be dug out (often at 10pm when I should be going to bed) when I get wind that a nice horse I photographed at least 12 months has been named, or is about to trial or race for the first time, or wins it's first race. Or perhaps to see whether that horse had caught my eye and/or I'd been at the right place at the right time when they entered the parade ring. But not this year. The Inglis Easter Sale was held as a virtual auction for the first time in it's history. No photos. No nothing. I wasn't able to photograph at Randwick last Saturday or this Saturday and being forced out of work isn't a lot of fun.<br /><br />So what have we been doing instead of working? Well for a start I insisted that we buy a turkey to cook here at home. The Baking Queen decided to make a reappearance after Jessica and I got bored and baked the famous Buttermilk Spice Cake. I'm back and forth to my horse changing rugs (because it is that time of year) which she likes because then she gets breakfast and dinner. I'm editing old photographs. Doing french homework and had my first french class online. We've been going on bike rides to get some exercise. I've been forcing myself to do some bookwork which is sooooooooooo boring..... The kids have started doing their music lessons online and getting used to that, and courtesy of this development my office desk now has a microphone behind my camera and a speaker cabinet blocking the cupboard. We're told school will be entirely online for the whole of term 2 which will be a challenge. We're trying not to trip over each other and trying to keep things harmonious. My desk is looking suspiciously tidy (although don't be fooled, there's still loads to get through) but has the tell tale signs that I'm not shooting because of the number of different hard drives currently sitting within arms reach. AND I tidied the pantry! I've bought a couple of new books that I've never read, both by Jane Austen, after spending an enjoyable night in Sydney with Mum last month watching Alan Rickman (still sad), Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet in 'Sense and Sensibility'. I can't believe I'd never seen it before, and resorted to watching it when I thought my head was going to explode with panic if I watched another single report on COVID-BLOODY-19!</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I'm also planning some creative projects and researching new products in an attempt to continue to innovate what we do and how we do it, plus trying to think how I might remove at least some of my Eggs out the Racing Industry's Basket, because the last 4 weeks has demonstrated what a tenuous position this really is if they make an arbitrary decision that you can't work. </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">So, as I wish you Happy Easter, I can't help missing life as it was. The spring carnival is probably lost although we will argue hard to be back on track for that. I continue to hungrily digest any news on the scientific progress towards a vaccine and am encouraged by the work being carried on here in Australia towards that end. I hope that 2021 will bring a vaccine because without that it will be a while before we safely have more of this!</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb13b680f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7f53debe6cb4d36d78b08649a683c2d6" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb13b680f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=7f53debe6cb4d36d78b08649a683c2d6" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb1fb0ace.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9be91316db4551b358adb416d117e008" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb1fb0ace.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=9be91316db4551b358adb416d117e008" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb294c99f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=839342b4f43cd1458b5f9da5f56c4f11" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb294c99f.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=839342b4f43cd1458b5f9da5f56c4f11" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb8ad328b.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c30c8a4addddc3407e7588374a7e5a35" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffb8ad328b.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=c30c8a4addddc3407e7588374a7e5a35" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffbc710c69.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=75b0a83773051b3d2ef7e49ae6a4dabb" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffbc710c69.JPG?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=75b0a83773051b3d2ef7e49ae6a4dabb" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc8023c40.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=11088ed7adc7574dbe5c07cb5726b620" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8ffc8023c40.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=11088ed7adc7574dbe5c07cb5726b620" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-28906389459565340082020-04-05T11:53:00.011+10:002021-07-16T11:56:40.626+10:00Working from home.. Staying at home... reflections from a Thoroughbred Industry Photographer<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I'm sitting in my office at my computer. As usual, my Burmese kitty Maxie, sits is on my lap. He makes it far more difficult for me to type when he does this, but I like having him with me so unless I need a cup of tea or my legs and butt have gone to sleep I usually never kick him off.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">It's 5 April. I <em>should</em> be at my Mum's house in Sydney. Yesterday, in any other year, I would have been busy at Royal Randwick working hard on Day 1 of The Championships and expecting to go straight on to the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. This morning I should be dog tired. My neck and shoulders should be aching and I should have sore legs as a result of having traipsed approximately 10km around Royal Randwick racecourse carrying my heavy gear with me.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Not this year. I have to say that pandemics suck. Utterly! We, like many others, are effectively locked out of work while the nation and world tries desperately to control the relentless march of the deadly coronavirus. So now, like so many others, I am watching from afar while the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival somehow manages to limp along without spectators and many industry participants on track. It's remarkable that our industry has been able to continue racing this long. Every day I expect to hear the news that it's been suspended as more and more major sporting and cultural events across the world are either postponed or cancelled altogether as countries try desperately to halt their outbreaks.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Yesterday I was forced to watch Day 1 of The Championships on TV rather than through the view finder of my camera. After the finish of the G1 Sires I admit I got cross and sulky. I probably muttered darkly something like <em>'eating batses was a VERY bad and VERY stupid idea'</em> as I walked away from the television. You see, the legend Redoute's Choice had just sired the quinella in this race for 2yos. Redoute's died just over 12 months ago and we were all heartbroken. However his glorious legacy has continued to shine and missing that race, with King's Legacy (1st) and Prague (2nd) easily defeating the rest of the field quite frankly really sucked. I've followed both colts closely throughout their brief careers and of course I'd photographed Redoute's Choice for a decade at Arrowfield Stud and for most of his racing career. Both colts were consigned by farms I work with, in Segenhoe and Bhima, and were both sold at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I cannot work from home. Well, truth be told, there are things I can do. I can edit, do book work (booooorrrrrrinnnnngggg), and tidy up loose ends as well as working on some creative projects I'm normally too busy shooting to even think about. But my camera bags sit on my office floor and my cameras are silent. My hard drives have stopped filling up and I recall somewhat sourly to when I thought less than a month ago <em>'goodness, I'm on my 9th hard drive for the season, 18TB of photos and it's only March!!!, this will be my busiest year on record!'</em> Things changed so quickly in such a short time and I didn't foresee that all of this would happen. The Golden Slipper was the last raceday I photographed. I finished the yearling shoots I was booked for in NSW and Victoria. Even these were affected by COVID-19 because one shoot was curtailed a day, another we didn't finish and then every single Victorian horse I photographed was then been withdrawn from the sale because Inglis has been forced to hold the sale online instead of as a live auction because of COVID-19.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">These images that I was prevented from taking are lost forever. I'm not like a journalist, or a tv commentator, I can't do it remotely. So when a raceclub retracts the carnival accreditation of almost all photographers it's all over if you weren't one of the ones selected, and seeing there was only 1-2 allowed the chances were never good. I can never go back and retake those pictures. The break in my picture library is irreversible. Ahhh.. I tell myself, 'it's just a horse race, it's just a horse...' in an attempt to make myself feel better. But truth be told, it does matter to me. I continue to tell myself <em>'at least you got to the Slipper, and got Farnan and Castelvecchio and in reality it is safer at home'</em> but the next 3 weeks are going to be <em>tough</em>. And we've been stood down without pay by the Clubs and that's going to really hurt and I have no idea how long it will last.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Being a photographer I am often asked (or sometimes told) 'surely you have enough photographs?' This always irritates me. In my mind it's like saying to a trainer or jockey 'haven't you trained/ridden enough winners?' My job is to capture great moments, great horses, etc. And I don't always know what a horse will go on to achieve at the time I take an image. And that is one of the great joys of the turf and I guess life itself. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I wasn't always full time and this immersed in the industry. I started off, as many others did and currently still do, photographing on a very part time basis while I worked a 'real' job at CSIRO. I suspect that, if I'd been able to get in to CSIRO's Ministerial Liaison Wing under Marie Keir, which was the section I always wanted to work for, my life could have turned out very differently. While I was working at CSIRO I completed a Bachelor of Arts degree part time at ANU and I double majored in Political Science which I really loved. Unluckily for me there was zero movement in Marie's section during those important years. Then our beloved Chief Executive, Malcolm McIntosh, died of cancer in February 2000 leaving the entire organisation heartbroken and after his death CSIRO then went through a period of upheaval, including some fairly controversial and profound restructuring. I became pregnant and my son was born in late 2001. I took 12 months maternity leave and during this time that my section was completely disbanded because my boss, then one of four Deputy Chief Executives, resigned and became Vice Chancellor at a university and things were never the same after that because I didn't have a real job or section to return to and the last 3 years I spent working in isolation with the rest of my 'section' in Sydney. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">My return to full time work was permanently compromised when my son developed Type 1 Diabetes at only 18 months old. Back then 'working from home' was well truly frowned on unless you were an executive and especially if you were female. It's a little ironic remembering trying to convince CSIRO I could be trusted to do a whole 4 hours per week from home without skiving off now, at a time when the entire nation is being asked to work from home during this wretched COVID-19 pandemic!! My daughter was born in 2005. Having two young children, one of whom had increasing special needs, caused my job prospects at CSIRO to dwindle. My position was eventually made redundant and I left the organisation at the very end of 2008.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I turned my hand to photographing horses full time when I wasn't with the kids and in the decade that followed I started doing a lot more bloodstock photography. In 2012 I managed to extricate myself from what is best described as a toxic and damaging relationship, and, with a lot of help from my family, my life and business flourished. By many standards I have been reasonably successful. My work is largely well received and I've been able to make a modest living from it. My work is best described as "niche" and at times "high end" but it's given me the opportunity to travel internationally and I've been fortunate enough to work with some of the very best racehorses and stallions all over the world. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">For now we are continuing to try to stay safe and stay at home, be busy and productive. We won't be able to travel to the carnivals in either South Australia or Queensland like we usually would from late April to June because those states have strict border controls and quarantine orders and the Queensland Winter Carnival is also lost. Our trip to Europe this year is absolutely postponed because Australians are currently not allowed to fly overseas. At best we hope for a northern hemisphere autumn shoot but even that is probably only a remote possibility. </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Moments like these can make me reflect on the dangers of being a full time thoroughbred industry photographer because all my eggs really are in the one basket, and the lid on my basket has been closed and someone took the key and lost it it! I wonder how long we will be stood down for? Can we recover? Will we be considered essential staff if racing does manage to continue and/or when it is resumed if it does get halted like everywhere else around the world? The breeding industry will continue but even this is filled with uncertainty as we grapple with issues such as will the shuttle stallions be able to return to Australia, will there be enough staff, will the farms and industry in general have any money left to spend on photography and marketing? </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">I hope for many things. I hope that CSIRO and our other research institutions will be able to discover a vaccine. That our industry and society won't be too smashed by the pandemic. That my children's schooling won't be too badly affected with my son trying to finish Year 12 and daughter doing Year 9. I hope she will be able to get back to rehearsing with the Australian Girls Choir and that my son can get a job after he finishes school and that we can keep our house and have what is left of our business stay afloat. I hope that no one we know gets sick and that our lovely friendly nation and world won't be permanently changed and that we won't be forever afraid to give someone a hug. And I hope that I'm not separated from the horses I love for much longer because otherwise fear it will become tempting to either take Freelance out of retirement or buy a new horse! However at 27 years old I'm sure she will think this is a really stupid idea and I'm 100% certain that I absolutely can't afford another horse!</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Farnan (Not a Single Doubt x Tallow) winning the Golden Slipper on 21 March 2020</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e89737284a36.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a1f252e2eb97d9f5b41b204a475963c4" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e89737284a36.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=a1f252e2eb97d9f5b41b204a475963c4" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;" /></p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Alligator Blood winning the G1 Australian Guineas on 29 February 2020</p><p data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8973747ddf0.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1ef664da3cf4959fdd7eabd76075ae1b" data-mce-style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://prod-us-west-1b.imgix.net/DKR4HDL49U-XYV-GD9U4C/5e8973747ddf0.jpg?w=740&h=740&fit=max&q=65&orient=0&s=1ef664da3cf4959fdd7eabd76075ae1b" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;" /></p>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-76883521680593683732019-03-26T20:20:00.003+11:002021-07-17T20:27:22.006+10:00Reflections on The Famous Pony<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KJvIuafy22s" width="320" youtube-src-id="KJvIuafy22s"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-39370947918495817952017-11-20T13:39:00.012+11:002021-05-25T17:35:30.892+10:00Photography and the Thoroughbred Industry<div style="text-align: justify;">Attracting new staff to work in the thoroughbred industry is often a topic of concern for our industry, and the COVID-19 Pandemic has done much to accentuate the problems in Australia while our international border remains shut. From a personal point of view I often worry about the capacity to attract future equine photographers to the industry and wonder who will replace some of the people like myself who's been doing it for a little while now. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whilst I can take presently take an upcoming photographer to a stud farm and teach them things away from the hustle and bustle of the racetrack, the only place they will obtain the necessary skills for photographing race meetings and to hone their instincts and reflexes and teach them the ability to think quickly and react to situations unfolding in front of them, is at the racetrack itself. But there are so many impediments to getting access to the track, and more critically, in photographers having the ability to successfully commercialise their work. Yet I've lost count of the number of times I've been approached by organisations and people wanting to pay to use my work and I've had to say "<i>I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to sell it to you</i>" which for any organisation is hard. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_jM0Gdjritf9GL92FSVOaCTQ-Xkq0oCzfJFlC1Lf238nh5PagaliZZmI7_6mk2DI4uIdLgT-mx8gt-GAncw_2zESWjkL49SA5zex4_sogs41Nl5k5ToM9UjnAr_cgR5oiodj0nBtqqo/s2048/Addeybb-MarquandTom-20210417-2902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_jM0Gdjritf9GL92FSVOaCTQ-Xkq0oCzfJFlC1Lf238nh5PagaliZZmI7_6mk2DI4uIdLgT-mx8gt-GAncw_2zESWjkL49SA5zex4_sogs41Nl5k5ToM9UjnAr_cgR5oiodj0nBtqqo/w640-h426/Addeybb-MarquandTom-20210417-2902.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7Lf-4bKrVAOaauFEIu8yfsTll4aoJ9Lybs1erRS1LR2EKyhdKMQbitUNnnW6IG3jZ9TxtBT5l_nYsBMdKKTnKJTWGPN2u2KptXx1gGc2PdT6SZ8I83izgpAONFwXC1p83l3WI9BZ0ao/s2048/ArcadiaQueen-PikeWilliam-20201010-1047.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7Lf-4bKrVAOaauFEIu8yfsTll4aoJ9Lybs1erRS1LR2EKyhdKMQbitUNnnW6IG3jZ9TxtBT5l_nYsBMdKKTnKJTWGPN2u2KptXx1gGc2PdT6SZ8I83izgpAONFwXC1p83l3WI9BZ0ao/w640-h426/ArcadiaQueen-PikeWilliam-20201010-1047.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
Racetrack and equine photography requires a different set of skills to other photography. Photographing horses requires patience, skill, and appreciation for the industry and for bloodlines and for correctness. It also requires a knowledge of what works, what doesn't and as with many things, if an image makes the subject look ordinary I don't care how clever you think you are, it's still a bad image and the only action is to press the delete key. Racetrack photography requires instinct, knowledge and a certain amount of what I call "corporate" historical knowledge. It requires you to be able to think on your feet and to be able to adapt when you can't control a situation and or direct the horse like you can when working with them one on one during a controlled shoot. It also requires you to be brave, to trust your instincts and to back yourself to make the right call and not miss the winner in a situation where the complexion of a race can change in the blink of an eye.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXhEgMEbJGZRP_fIEPaMluWL4TNjkfnH3UaDN9p_uZ_ksjhcZZ7uXA5QEXPm8rc5mnFrducSZiQ9S2U4OhfXe3nOpi_BTRU-wYUSHt7oHE0PBNMuNdJBSJ1yuGK-6VAPCuatJ0nDkyqY/s2048/HungryHeart-McEvoyKerrin-20210417-1883.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXhEgMEbJGZRP_fIEPaMluWL4TNjkfnH3UaDN9p_uZ_ksjhcZZ7uXA5QEXPm8rc5mnFrducSZiQ9S2U4OhfXe3nOpi_BTRU-wYUSHt7oHE0PBNMuNdJBSJ1yuGK-6VAPCuatJ0nDkyqY/w640-h426/HungryHeart-McEvoyKerrin-20210417-1883.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<br />It is my opinion that image selection is highly
personal and different photographers see and therefore depict the same scene differently because we all have different 'eyes'. Also not all people will like the same image. If you are only able to select images from a single perhaps <i>'official'</i> source they are not going be able to economically produce every single image that the industry will need or that everyone will like. It is important to preserve and protect the
size and diversity of the image pool. I don't believe that a single
source of images is the way to go because it does just that - it reduces
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Competition is important to the preservation of excellence but I worry that the available pool of photographers who specialise in working with horses continues to shrink. Today's world is image hungry yet many organisations and businesses are either laying photographers off or they are trying to obtain their work for free. I've lost count of the times I am approached by organisations or individuals who expect me to respond positively to their cheerful offer of using my work for free in return for saying I took the photo. My reply is mostly a curt 'no' - that's if I have the energy to respond at all. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwJEiMuGBbBW7Zfy26J-LxOuioo6eHTMrgqRp4Oy-qGzfgGiw77Q5xZoVOAHbjLSkAhgzMfI4y8_h7ZPop3F_5IqSDWtYguWWICr6CBMoG0exlSGHFORg5mMaDbkChyGnmU_maENLNaQ/s2048/Race4-Blur-20210109-4383.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwJEiMuGBbBW7Zfy26J-LxOuioo6eHTMrgqRp4Oy-qGzfgGiw77Q5xZoVOAHbjLSkAhgzMfI4y8_h7ZPop3F_5IqSDWtYguWWICr6CBMoG0exlSGHFORg5mMaDbkChyGnmU_maENLNaQ/w640-h426/Race4-Blur-20210109-4383.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>I am reminded photographers are just subcontractors. The handful of us who are engaged '<i>full time</i>' in the industry (by that I mean those who derive 100% of their incomes from their photography and aren't working full time in another job - essentially there for fun and because they like racing) are sole traders. As such we aren't covered by any form of worker's compensation, leave entitlements, or work stability, mentoring programs, we don't appear to be eligible to be included any of the industry schemes or awards and we sort of 'float' around the edge of the industry. It's not uncommon to feel downward pressure on what acceptable daily rates are. This can be made worse by newcomers thinking it's wise to charge prices that are way under what most working professional professionals would agree is a reasonable daily rate and/or give away their work for free, because this doesn't benefit any of us. </div><div><br /></div><div>Photographers work long hours. Overheads like cars to drive around in (and we spend a lot of time in our cars travelling to and from jobs and the travel time is frequently 'unpaid') and said cars annoyingly need replacing. There always seems to be a new camera or lens that you might need, or perhaps you might drop one, or bump it and have pay for it to go off to the doctor. iCloud data, memory cards, hard drives (always more and more and more!), website storage and upkeep, insurance, tax, home office, travel expenses, etc, etc, etc. When my kids were younger it used to cost me between $150-200 a day to mind my kids and because I frequently needed them minded on a weekend or early in the morning (like - 4am early) or late in the evening (as late as midnight if I was flying in from somewhere) it always meant I was ineligible for any Child Care Benefit or Child Care Rebates because the people who I did manage to find to mind the kids weren't 'registered' child care providers and for the time I was a single parent that was pretty tough. I make the point about child care because it tends to affect woman disproportionately to men. </div><div><br />If one of my children wanted to follow me in my chosen career path it's a shame to say that, as things stand, my firm advice would be don't even think about it. While they will one day inherit my photo library (I hope they manage it well and that the images will not be lost forever because collections go it is not bad) yet I can say with almost complete certainty that they have no interest in working within the industry.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Dundeel. I love horses and I love photographing them.</td></tr></tbody></table>
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We're sitting here in the press room at Caulfield, with another 35 minutes to wait until race 1. Today is Caulfield Cup Day. I've always liked the Caulfield Cup. I used to read my Uncle Murray's book on the race religiously and today will be the 22nd time I have photographed the race. The first time I did the race was in 1995 and the only one I've ever missed was in 2005, the year Jessica was little.</div>
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One of the things I like about Cup Day is the placement of the rail. It's out 6m and sometimes this can be awkward but somehow at Caulfield having the rail out that distance makes the track look nicer and changes the angle in subtle ways which makes any jubilation post race look really terrific.</div>
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This year feels special because we have this wonderful champion Winx racing and striving to become only the 2nd horse in history to win a 3rd Cox Plate next weekend at Moonee Valley. Occasions like this cause you to reflect on past races and great horses over time and makes me glad to be a thoroughbred photographer.</div>
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I recently heard that a race loving fan was denied entry to Saturday's G1 Memsie Stakes racing meeting at Caulfield Racecourse on Saturday 2 September. Why? Because he had a camera and lens with a focal length of 200m and these items are no longer allowed to be brought in to a racecourse by a member of the general public. After I read this comment I walked away from my computer in disgust.</div>
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My first point is that racing is not an industry where patrons are bashing the door down to get in the gates. Winx's last dramatic win in Sydney only drew a crowd of 9,000 odd fans to Royal Randwick. Racing is not cricket. It's not the footy. It's not soccer or the NRL. Apples are not oranges and oranges will never be apples.</div>
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Let's pause for a moment to consider the ramifications on the introduction of such a policy. It's been well documented that the sport has for many years struggling with declining crowds and participation rates. We struggle to attract enough owners to the sport. It's hard to get staff and even harder to retain them. It's difficult for a rank and file person (like myself) to own a share in a racehorse. Don't get me wrong. I'd love a teeny tiny share in a racehorse but on my income and with 2 children to raise I don't have that sort of disposal income to spare. </div>
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I've worked in the industry for over 20 years now as a professional thoroughbred photographer and 10 of those years have been full time. It doesn't make me rich but I've been relatively successful as evidenced by our recent trip to Europe when commisioned to photograph for H.H. The Aga Khan Studs, Juddmonte Farms, the Irish National Stud and Haras d'Etreham. I also enjoy very close working relationships with major industry players like Arrowfield Stud and Magic Millions in particular as well as Vinery Stud, Woodside Park and many others.</div>
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As a professional photographer am I threatened by the thought of a fan or amateur photographer bringing their camera along and taking photographs? Absolutely not! Do I fear that by allowing them in that they will get a better image than I? Again absolutely not! Why? Because for a start I'm in a priviliged position and I get better access to than the general public plus I have years of experience and probably my equipment is more sophisticated. However if they do get a great image, well done them! Should other photographers be worried? I don't believe that they should because I just don't believe it is a problem.</div>
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Do I care if a member of the public takes their camera to the races, takes a nice series of images and puts them on their wall? Or gives it to a friend, or even, heaven forbid, sells a copy for a little bit of spare cash? I couldn't care less! Why? Because in the overall scheme of things it really <i>doesn't</i> matter to my business (or to the business of any official photographer who might be tempted to be territorial). If it encourages people to love the sport and to love the horse then actually it's a good thing. I believe an economist would call this the trickle down effect! </div>
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When I was growing up you could go down to the newsagent and buy, once a month, not one but 2 glossy magazines that were filled with wonderful images of famous racehorses. It inspired me to love the industry because I loved horses so much and it fuelled a lifelong passion in the industry. Today is a digital age and unfortunately that's been at the expense of the printed magazine. However I think that this is a huge shame because while I agree lots of us can look at content online, there is nothing more tangible and enjoyable than looking at an image in print and to look at a large copy of it. </div>
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I used to save the magazines and put some of the pages on my walls and instead of having posters of rock stars (ok I did have some, like ABBA, the Police, Bowie, etc) I had pictures of horses on my walls and I made scrapbooks which I still own. Today you can't do this very easily and you can't even buy a racing magazine in the newsagent. As a parent I don't think unfettered computer or device time is healthy and there's nothing better for your child than to read a paper book or magazine and I'll happily spend money on these physical items. But with racing I don't have that choice anymore.</div>
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And here's the paradox for Victorian racegoers. Not only are they not allowed anymore to take their own camera and lens in (and let's face it if you want to take a nice image for yourself of your favourite horse you really need a 200mm or plus lens), but their options of purchasing an image are greatly reduced because (1) they can't cut them out of magazines any more and (2) they are so limited in what they can buy. </div>
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A photographer like myself is forbidden to sell a photograph to a member of the general public. I can't put them on my website for general viewing even if they are clearly un-downloadable and/or watermarked. Its against the rules. I've always maintained that photography is a form of art and art is highly subjective and people like different things. Does the same rule apply to other jurisdictions in Australia? No! And as a general rule it doesn't happen internationally and neither should it.</div>
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My point is that if an individual likes a particular image, isn't it better for them to be able to buy that image, or to even just see it? Different photographers see things differently. I know this first hand because my partner and I frequently shoot them same scenes but our eyes see them very differently. So the diversity and size of the image pool is important, as is its availability. And the issue of availability also affects price because if supply and demand are out of sync then there is an affect on price. Of course this is a debate which needs to be taken further because by reducing the capacity of a professional like myself to earn an income through varying streams it makes it more difficult to attact good people to work in the industry. But this is a side issue.<br />
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My first reaction to learning about this new rule of entry was to check the "Rules of Entry" section in Saturday's racebook it said nothing about restrictions about what the general public can take into the course, it only said that any images they take must be for personal use. However this individual was refused entry after security searched his bag because his lens was over 200mm lens. And this says nothing about the length of distance he'd travelled to attend the meeting or who he'd brought along. <br />
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When it's all said and done a paying customer and a racing fan has been turned away at the gate at a time when crowds are dimishing and participation is falling, particularly among younger people. My colleague at Arrowfield Stud, Vicky Leonard, has written an excellent series on the problems facing the racing industry and the challenges that lie ahead in how we market it and she focuses on the low participation of younger people. A link to her first article is below and you'll be able to see her follow up pieces as well. </div>
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<a href="https://www.dita-blog.com/single-post/2017/07/03/Off-The-Pace-how-our-industry-must-change" target="_blank">Off the Pace - by Vicky Leonard</a></div>
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I add that the younger generation has been brought up in an environment where a camera is no longer a luxury as it used to be and in an age where amateur camera equipment is now capable of taking very fine images. As a comparison I didn't get my first camera until I was 21 and it took about 3 frames a second and it was film! So the capacity of today's camera to take nice images and to enjoy them is far greater than it was when I was growing up and in a nutshell this is a good thing. So while you can no longer buy a magazine in the newsagent and unfortunately they can't buy from a professional like myself you could still go to the races and take a picture of a horse like Winx.<br />
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If you're like me and like series like Doctor Who, Harry Potter and the Big Bang Theory (ok, and Back to the Future) you'll be familiar with the concept that a moment in time can lead to forks in the road which can impact on the future and this leads to my final point <br />
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Way back in October 1992 I went to Royal Randwick for the very first time in my life. It was the 1992 Epsom Handicap meeting and for me that single day was career defining because although it took some time to establish, this was the day that eventually led to a career in the industry and I like to believe that the thoroughbred industry has benefited from my participation.<br />
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I was just a member of the public who happened to love racing and one day went to the races in
Sydney armed only with my own camera and a love of the thoroughbred.
I'd grown up in Canberra and while I'd loved racing I'd rarely been able
to go to the track to watch major events because airfares were
expensive and driving to Sydney or Melbourne took forever in the days
before the Hume Highway had been duplicated (oh goodness I am showing my
age which for the record is only 49 and fingers crossed my health will
stay good enough for me to add to that number!!!!). </div>
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My library contains some of the finest imagery of the Australian bred thoroughbred both on and off the track dating back to 1992. However if I'd been turned away at the gate with my camera on this day in 1992 none of this could have been possible. While I realise that I am just a tiny speck within the industry I still believe that the industry would be poorer if I hadn't perserved and become part of it. <br />
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There is a power attached to the still image that is evidenced by the fact that in my 2015 trip to America and my 2017 trip to Ireland, France and England I still had people stop me and say <i>"you're Bronwen, you took those images of Black Caviar standing in the water at dawn and I loved those images"</i>. It reminded me that some of what I do is important.</div>
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If we treat potential fans, owners, and industry participants without
respect and remove their capacity to enjoy the industry (whatever the
source of that inspiration may be - in my case it was a camera and a
200mm zoom lens) this is harmful to the industry as a whole. <br />
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Racing has been gifted with not one but two champion racehorses in the past 7 years and between them they have won 44 races in succession. They are Black Caviar and Winx, the latter having just won her 19th successive race. Winx is not unbeaten like Black Caviar and they are very different horses however her appeal is growing exponentially. The careers of these two horses have reinforced my long held belief that it is a love of the horse that is paramount to good sensible marketing and that we have to do what we can to make the sport accessible and to make it appealing.</div>
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In the meantime my advice to lovers of horses and in particular Winx: if you want to take a photo of Winx or buy a photo of this great champion don't bother doing it here in Victoria. Do it in Sydney because they haven't gone down this unnecessary path.<br />
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I will leave this article with a series of images that I took way back in the early 1990s, which include a frame of a little black filly called Slight Chance winning the Flight Stakes in October 1992. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Defining Moment: The picture that convinced me I could do it (yes, I chopped
her feet off, my camera used to take possibly 3 frames per second) -
Slight Chance - 92 Flight</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the Moir I went to The Valley to my very first Cox Plate. It wasn't my first time to Moonee Valley. My grandmother had once taken me to see Manikato race and win the 1981 William Reid Stakes. I never got to see my hero Kingston Town race but I did meet him twice. This is one of my earliest pictures and it was taken in the public at "The Valley". Schillaci - 92 Moir using a Nikon F401 film camera. Not bad for a hobby.....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alanon - 94 Rubiton Stakes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blevic - 93 VRC Derby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blevic with a very young David Hayes after his Derby victory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">March Hare (sigh - my favourite boy at the time) - 93 Peter Pan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naturalism - the horse who got me back in to racing after I'd become a bit disillusioned with the industry post Kingston Town who I loved more than life itself at age 14</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Navy Seal - Epsom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Octagonal - 95 Cox Plate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schillaci - Moir</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Maizcay - 95 Cox Plate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Maizcay - 95 Caulfield Guineas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slight Chance - Hill Stakes (can't remember what year)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vintage Crop - 93 Melbourne Cup - my first</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just for fun I'll leave you with a little bit of WINX - enjoy her in Sydney while you can! The gear is more sophisticated and I'm definitely older but I still love the horses just as much and I still believe in the industry.</td></tr>
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The Image Is Everythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948108605680379128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596393399107798494.post-40395591759744682232017-05-31T06:14:00.002+10:002017-05-31T06:27:57.480+10:00Postcard from Ireland<div style="text-align: justify;">
Bonjour! We are in Ireland after arriving on Thursday. I had been intending to write each day but we seem to have been running from 6am right through till 10pm without stopping much. By the end of the day I've been too tired to write anything.</div>
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Our flight across was really pretty ok. I'm a nervous flyer, despite the number of miles I do in the air, and was therefore a bit apprehensive about flying Emirates because I'm used to Qantas but they were really very good. Although we were a fair way back in the plane (and to tell the truth the seats were a teeny tiny bit hard) our row had no one behind us which meant we could recline our seats without impeding anyone. We had a full row (only 3 of us) but the man sitting with us was nice and we chatted on and off to him throughout the flight (he was English from memory heading home through Heathrow Airport for a family gathering?). I can't say that I got a lot of sleep but it seemed to go much better than the flight a couple of years ago to Los Angeles which took FOREVER!</div>
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On arrival into Dubai which was our 90 minute stop over we were able to use the Emirates Business Lounge through my Qantas Club membership and that was pretty nice so we felt more refreshed when we got on our flight to Dublin. I read recently that if you get on a flight and think "only 7 hours" it really does prove that you live all the way to whoop whoop. Alas and woe we didn't have a window seat on the flight to Dublin. Although in reality that was a small price to pay because for some reason our flights across were not linked and at one stage it looked likely that we wouldn't be sitting together for the 7 hour Dubai - Dublin leg and both of us thought that would suck. It's a lovely experience when Darren and I travel together. I have a sense that Darren is always looking out for me, and even when things get stressful an argument is really very rare. We have a mutual love of the work and we spark off each other and have different skills. Plus we have an easiness together that I've never had in previous relationships and perhaps that comes with both being so passionate about what we do. Truly, madly, deeply? I guess so.</div>
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The plane landed into the Dublin just after midday on Thursday and we breezed through customs and got our bags off so quickly and easily I was walking out the front saying "is that it????" We caught a taxi into Dublin City to our hotel. </div>
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Dublin is filled with cobble stone streets and fabulous building and the streets are lined with so many different and brightly coloured doors. Naturally I liked the red ones the best. We spent a few hours wandering around on Thursday afternoon/evening where I did a little bit of gift shopping (which turned out to be time well spent because the rest of our time in Ireland just raced through and was spent mainly on the farms). We then grabbed some dinner at the local pub before collapsing into bed around 8.30pm.</div>
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Jetlag kicked in around 3am on Friday morning and we gave up and got up around 4.30am. Since we were up we figured we might as well go for a walk before breakfast. We discovered that our hotel was on the same block at Oscar Wilde's house and the gardens which are named in his honour, Merrion Square. Much to our annoyance the gardens were shut until around 9am which seemed ludicrous to us and I walked around muttering that Dublin was shut. Truth be told though I absolutely loved Dublin. The people were all so friendly and the age of the streets, buildings and just the general feel of it was fabulous. I can't say I developed any real sense of where I was (that 'no inner compass' kicking straight back in) but Darren was pretty good at getting us around.<br />
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We spent a fabulous hour in the gardens of St Stephens which is a garden dedicated to Ireland's fight for independence. It was so pretty and the morning was warm and sunny. After this I insisted that we head back to a little jewellery shop I'd seen because I wanted to buy Jessica and her beautiful friend India a matching pair of shamrock earrings and then headed back to check out of our hotel so that we could collect our hire car.<br />
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The hire car company in Ireland was Europcar. It's fair to say that after my experience with them that I will never hire another car from them in my life (apart from the one that is prepaid in England) because basically they are capitalist elitist snobs and have a draconian policy that classes you as a second class citizen if you do NOT have a credit card. According to them a VISA Debit Card is useless and we were very nearly left without a car despite having PREPAID for it. Just for the record I don't want a credit card because I believe in living within my resources. I manage my money and this policy is NONSENSE and outrageous. As I said, never again.. We did end up getting a car which I had to pay more money for and it was far smaller than the car I had paid for and I bet getting a refund from them will be like getting blood out of a stone. As I said, after this trip they won't get anymore of my business!<br />
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Rant over, we drove down out of Dublin to the Irish National Stud in Kildare. It's a gorgeous farm. Warm, welcoming and beautiful. Invincible Spirit stands there and so to be asked to become his stallion photographer is pretty grand. The first day at a stud is really all about learning about the place, the horses and the staff, and we weren't blessed with great weather. The next day was quite humourous and put Melbourne to shame. We had a mixture of cloud, then beautiful sun, then cloud, then sun, then rain, then sun, then cloud, then rain followed by hail before the sun came out again! All you could do was be patient and laugh! The forecast was pretty ordinary on Sunday so we postponed the 2nd day and went sightseeing instead. It was a fun drive down to Waterford which my mum had said we should visit. We went to the Waterford shop and did a bit of shopping although we were both pretty tired seeing as we were still getting over the flight and jetlag and Saturday had been a big day.<br />
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Then on Monday I fulfilled a lifelong ambition by driving through the front gates of the Aga Khan's famed Gilltown Stud. Passing the statue of the brilliant but tragically ill fated champion racehorse SHERGAR brought tears to my eyes. I was in high school when he was abducted and killed by the IRA in the early 1980s. The statue is fabulous and symbolic of a lost champion and the legacy that never was. Alas and woe we weren't left with a Dubawi, who managed to carry on the line of his short lived sired Dubai Millenium, from Shergar's one and only foal crop. He was lost to us forever. We've spent a great deal of time with Aline Giraud, who is warm and welcoming and at times immensely funny. I've loved hanging about with her and working with her as we've gone along.<br />
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Sinead Hyland and Patrick Diamond (who we'd previously worked with at Arrowfield Stud - he'd featured in those lovely images of Miss Finland with her Animal Kingdom filly in 2014) at the Irish National Stud were just terrific and we had a couple of lunches and evenings with them. They were generous with their time and loved the photographs which pleased us so much. The stallion staff, in particular Daffa and Paul were wonderful and we like to hope that this trip has been the start of an ongoing relationship with both staff and horses. The National Stud is a wonderful investment from the Irish Government who clearly views the thoroughbred industry as a national asset. The number of tourists who visited on the 3 days we were there was quite remarkable. <br />
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To be asked to photograph for the Aga Khan Studs is very special and the importance is not lost on me and I think after my cancer health scare in 2014 these moments are all the more special to me. Sea The Stars was a racehorse I idolised and so to photograph him as a stallion is a gift. It's been fabulous meeting and developing a working relationship with his stallion groom Ray and assistant Ben. They had a laugh when "Pinky" (my secret weapon) came out. When I accidentally left her behind at the stallion barn and came looking for her the next day, Ben joked that they were holding Pinky for ransom. As always, just as she's done with other famous horses, Pinky worked her magic when nothing else would. It was terrific photographing Sea The Stars' half brother, a stallion named Born to Sea. He's also out of champion broodmare Urban Sea (she's also the dam of the remarkable northern hemisphere stallion Galileo) and he's by Invincible Spirit. The third stallion we photographed was Harzand, who is their new stallion and dual Derby winner and son of their champion Sea the Stars.<br />
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After we finished shooting for the Aga Khan Studs and the National Stud we had two days at the Curragh for the Guineas weekend. The first day was just quietly fairly wretched as it poured with rain. The second day was much better! The highlight was meeting my 'cousin' and famous Irish racing photographer Pat "Cash" Healy. Pat is surely one of the only people in the world who can make Ryan Moore giggle spontaneously. Following him around and watching him work, and watching the way he interacted with Irish racing personalities was (to quote Bruce McAveney) "special". Darren, Pat and I had dinner together on Saturday evening after our soaking at the Curragh and he helped us out on track on both days and it was great to hear his thoughts. <br />
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Our trip out of Dublin was eventful with the Airfrance check in counter completely overwhelmed and in all honesty we were lucky to make our flight. Our next installment comes from France and that's been daunting but fun and humourous all at the same time! The clouds have finally cleared this evening and we're hoping for nice weather today. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're so jetlagged. My once nice smile gets lopsided now when I smile. Alas and woe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello Dublin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viking castle in Waterford. Just for fun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love this shot Darren took head on of CHURCHILL winning the 2000 Irish Guineas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CHURCHILL. Irish 2000 Guineas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CHURCHILL. Irish 2000 Guineas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HARZAND. Son of Sea the Stars. Epsom and Irish Derby winner and new Aga Khan stallion. Loved him.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our BnB in Kilcullen. Geraldine and her gorgeous daughter Laura were lovely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My 'cous', Pat "Cash" Healy. He's so fabulous.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No biting!!!! With my 'new boy' INVINCIBLE SPIRIT.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our "new boy" INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, Patrick Diamond, Bron and Darren. Magic moment..</td></tr>
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