If you are looking to buy a dual purpose mare, with a splendid race record and bloodlines to match, then don’t look past Lot 21 at the Australian Pacing Gold Autumn Mix Online Sale from May 23 to 25.
It is Polly Put Kettleon, a young Courage Under Fire mare who won 15 races including the Listed Graham Goffin Memorial and the SA Norman Memorial and $130,209 in stakes and took a mile record of 1:50.9.
She won three races at Menangle, one at Melton and 11 at Globe Derby Park, racing against the likes of Tough Tilly, Amore Vita and Tay Tay, and worked her way back to a NR90 mark.
On the score of breeding, Polly Put Kettleon lacks nothing. She is a half-sister to the SA Southern Cross and Golden Nursery winner Bubbles And Cheese and a descendant of the top racemare of yesteryear in Tarcoola, who established a great winning line for leading NSW studmaster and breeder the late Bob Humphries.
Tarcoola left five winners including the NSW Spring Cup winner Tarcoola Frost and was the ancestress of the Fremantle Cup winner Trunkey Westerner, the multiple Group placegetter Trunkey Zoom, North Toa Luckstar ($175,707), Trunkey Zoom, Alkira Jetstar (WA Breeders Stakes) and Alkira Jet (Harvey Cup).
Polly Put Kettleon is being offered by Jamie Durnberger’s Summit Bloodstock.
Another excellent dual purpose proposition is Lot 17, Justasmalltowngirl, a young American Ideal mare from the one of the fastest moving families in Australia today, that founded by the Windshield Wiper mare Larrakeyah Lady.
From the Lifeline branch of it and to which Justasmalltowngirl belongs, others in the Australian 3YO Colt of the Year and Victoria Derby hero Petracca ($314,053), the dual Southern Cross winner Treachery ($336,324), the NSW Derby winner Major Secret ($464,872), the Victoria Oaks winner Beauty Secret ($425,921) and the Breeders Crown champion Lovelist ($222,889) are also members.
Justasmalltowngirl, who raced once as a three-year-old last season, is a half-sister to four sub 2:00 winners headed up by the Group 3 Melton winner Ample Power ($165,797).
The ‘Aleppo’ prefix is synonymous with ‘black type’ performers – both pacing and trotting – in Victorian harness racing.
A rare opportunity to tap into this very successful bloodline is Lot 51, the Bettor’s Delight mare Aleppo Mia, who has a wealth of breeding on her dam’s side, being out of the Armbro Operative mare Aleppo Heiress, a member of the prolific Pride of Lincoln family.
Aleppo Mia, who was unraced, is a half-sister to the Victorian country cups winner and dual Vicbred Final placegetter Fourbigmen ($261,700) and the good Melton and Gloucester Park winner Anotherbigman.
The grand-dam Insulated, a Victorian Trotting Broodmare of the Year, left seven winners including the Group winners Aleppo Sunrise ($204,930), Aleppo Jewel ($107,185) and Aleppo Midas ($142,804), dam of the Vicbred Homegrown Classic and Need For Speed winner Alpha Male and the dual Inter Dominion heat winner Timothy Red, now at the stud in NSW.
Further back in Aleppo Mia’s pedigree are top horses the calibre of the four-time Group 1 winner and dual Derby winner Menin Gate ($574,758), the dual Vicbred champion Rocknrolla, Firerockfireroll (WA Christmas Gift), Some American (Breeders Crown), Smooth Showgirl (Seymour Nursery), Kasey John ($259,286), Nightn Georgia (Vic. Sapling) and the Devonport Cup winner Sky Tower.
Aleppo Mia is being offered with a filly foal at foot by the North American Cup winner and USA 3YO Colt of the Year Pebble Beach.
Don’t miss your opportunity to pick up these nice prospects to help round out your stables for the upcoming season! Register as a Buyer or check out the full Online Catalogue today.
