Made the long haul trip up to Pinjarra and back to collect Billy who officially retired from racing last Friday. He is in beautiful racing condition, just needs to put on some ‘hack fat’ to round out his athletes body. He is a gorgeous boy, very affectionate and HUGE! Getting on him is going to [...]
Our Sandy Girl – “Sandy” (Tommy’s half sister) Foaling Date: 05-Dec-2003 Sex: Mare Sire: OUR SIR VANCELOT NZ Dam: BLUE VAULT Colour: Brown Height: 14.2h Country of birth: AU Prizemoney: $8,462 Starts: 49, Wins: 1, Seconds: 2, Thirds: 2, Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:02.3MS Last raced: 12-Mar-2009 GEELONG
Tazzy is our “honourary” Standardbred and the colour in our paddocks – a 13h gelding, light palamino, welsh quarterhorse pony. We purchased Tazzy as a five year old, but according to the dentist who removed a few caps from his teeth he is only rising four. Although Tazzy was broken to saddle, had professional natural [...]
With all the dramas this year, we wern’t up to taking the kids to the Royal or Kelmscott Shows, so thought a quiet little country show might be more our style this year Kids got to see the baby farm animals (we all think alpacas and baby goats are *very* cute), had a few show [...]
Meridian Sundial – “Flicka”, 1990, 15.1h brown mare Sire: The Sunbird Hanover USA Dam: Sweep Hand Prizemoney: $16,550 Starts: 99 Wins: 6 Seconds: 6 Thirds: 9 Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:03.1MS Last raced: 24-Mar-1999 HARVEY Like many retired race horses, Flicka’s story is a sad one. We are her sixth home in the past three [...]