When you buy quality mares out of quality pedigrees it's a definite recipe for an increased chance of success. And, when they boast the best bloodlines available in both hemispheres, they can rightly be claimed as gilt-edged breeding prospects.
The offering for the online Dr Ed Dewar Estate Sale, being conducted by Australian Pacing Gold from 12pm (AEST) Friday, May 2 until Sunday, May 4, includes two mares representing the most successful maternal families in North America and New Zealand.
They are Lot 6, Wedu Whitby Voodoo (by Betting Line) and Lot 8, Whitbys Blue Iris, a daughter of Art Major.
Both belong to the most highly prized families in the world today, Wedu Whitby Voodoo tracing back to the foundation mare Miss Poole (NZ) and Whitbys Blue Iris being a member of the American family founded by The Old Maid.
Wedu Whitby Voodoo, a lightly raced winner, ranks as a half-sister to the 2021 WA Oaks winner and WA Sales Classic placegetter Benesari Lane ($143,934) and a sister to Rising Spirit (8 wins).
Their dam, Terrifying ($131,200), won 19 races including eight at Gloucester Park and at the stud left three foals for three winners.
The third dam, Typhoon Whitby, banked $163,751 and was one of the best fillies in WA of her day. Among her successes were the WA Sires Stakes 2YO Final, two heats of the 3YO Sires Stakes and a heat of the Dainty’s Daughter Classic, while she finished runner-up in the Bathurst Gold Tiara and Gold Bracelet.
At the stud Typhoon Whitby produced four winners headed up by the dual Breeders Crown heat winner Bronzwhaler Whitby ($135,652).
Tempting Franco, the fourth dam of Wedu Whitby Voodoo, left five winners including Tempestuous Whitby, a sister to Typhoon Whitby, who finished second in the WA Pearl and Bathurst Gold Crown, and was the ancestress of the Westbred 2YO Classic winner Kimba Bay ($219,382) and the WA Debutante Stakes and De Campo Memorial victor Scot Bay ($134,886).
In the back removes of Wedu Whitby Voodoo’s pedigree are top horses the calibre of Franco Tiger (Miracle Mile), Three Blind Mice (WA Derby), Motu Premier ($424,615), There’s A Franco (NZ Oaks), Motu Crusader (QLD Sunshine Sprint), Franco Totem (1:48.2), Ok Tiger, Norvic Nightowl, and many others.
Only a six-year-old, Wedu Whitby Voodoo has a positive test to the North America Cup winner and USA 3YO Colt of the Year Pebble Beach.
Whitbys Blue Iris, who was unraced, is a daughter of the Canadian-bred mare Garden Gate Tina Ca (1:53.2), the winner of 15 races and $146,804.
At the stud Garden Gate Tina, who was imported to Victoria by Bruce Edward, has left 10 foals of racing age for seven winners – all inside 2:00 – headed up by the Vicbred Silver winner and APG Gold Bullion placegetter Major Major 1:49.8 ($175,271) and the Melton winner and dual Group placegetter Beach Garden 1:52.9 ($135,844).
Others from Garden Gate Tina include the 1:52 Menangle victor Our Chiquitita, and the Melton winners Major Gait (1:56.3) and Tina Calls (1:55.7), dam of last week’s Melton three-year-old winner Pick Up Elvis (1:56.8).
Garden Gate Tina, a half-sister to seven winners, belongs to the immediate family of the USA 2YO Colt of the Year Major In Art ($849,154), later a successful sire in Australia, J J Gladiator 1:49.8 ($470,802), Haul Away ($504,013), Tattler’s Torpedo ($400,737) and Armbro Davina, all Stakes winners.
Boasting a 3x3 cross to Abercrombie and strains of the blood of influential sires Western Hanover, Albatross and No Nukes, Whitbys Blue Iris has already left two winners including the talented WA three-year-old Major Miki Whitby (by Always B Miki), the winner of three of his six starts to date.
She’s safely in foal again to Always B Miki.
The resulting foals from these mares can be made NSW Breeders Challenge Eligible if the mares are transported to NSW, foaled down in NSW and the foals registered with Harness Racing NSW. They will then no longer be eligible for Westbred.
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