I didn't ever get around to putting these images up on the Blog, but here is a little look at the champion racehorse Sepoy, who is about to embark on his first Northern Hemisphere stud season in England.  We photographed him for Darley late in September when he was half way through his first Southern Hemisphere season at Darley's picturesque Kelvinside Stud at Aberdeen, NSW.  The results of our Sepoy stallion photoshoot, which came around all of a sudden.  There's some interesting connections to my photographic library of this little chestnut colt, so I've included the pictorial history. Interestingly, the first time I photographed Sepoy was as a weanling at their Northwood Park Stud just outside of Seymour in March 2009.  I of course had no idea I had done so, until he won the Blue Diamond Stakes in 2010.  Something made me calculate when he would have been a weanling, then in a fit of excitement, I went rushing back through all the images to see whether...

Every now and again you have cause to wander back through images you've taken in the past.  And every now and again that search pulls up a little treasure.  It turns out that I photographed Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful) for Darley back in March 2009.  Sepoy of course is Darley's undefeated colt who just made a mess of the Blue Diamond Stakes field, winning by over 4 lengths in a hand canter. He's so little!  And so sweet!