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BIANCONI	$8,500 inc GST
COURT OF JEWELS	$4,000 inc GST
DASH FOR CASH	$10,000 inc GST
HOLD THAT TIGER	$5,000 inc GST
HOST	$9,500 inc GST
KAPHERO	$7,000 inc GST
KEEP THE FAITH	$9,000 inc GST
SOLDIER'S TALE	$10,000 inc GST
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Jeune's Sire the source of Our Baby's grey hair.

ALTHOUGH Jeune, the deceased imported winner of the1994 Melbourne Cup and successful Lindsay Park stud sire, was a chestnut, his sire Kalaglow was a grey and his dam was a bay or brown. This suggests that the grey genes lay unexposed in Jeune’s physiology.

If Jeune had shown up as a grey, it would not have been surprising as both parents of Kalaglow’s sire, Kalamoun and Khairunissa, were grey and Kalamoun’s grandsire Grey Sovereign is a mainstay of the colour in modern breeding.

Some of Grey Sovereign’s descendants only got grey offspring, an exception being Kalaglow, a sire who was about 60-40 for greyness. It is a strike rate that Dash for Cash, a grey who inherited the colouring down from his grandam, the Kalaglow mare Gulet, is not far behind in replicating.

It has been transmitted on in the colouring of Dash for Cash’s latest budding star Our Baby Bonus, a 3-year-old grey gelding in the Mick Price stables at Caulfield who appears to be rocketing towards stakes success. A short priced favourite on each occasion, he has won all his four outings in fine style, including a1000m event at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Sold through Phoenix Broodmare Farm, Euroa for $42,500 at the Melbourne Autumn yearling sale, Our Baby Bonus is from Mother to Be, a Tasmanian winner by the American bred sire Dance Floor and from a grandaughter of Golden Slipper winner Vivarchi.

Mother to Be is one of the great sale bargains, costing Our Baby Bonus’s breeder R. Hughes only $600 at an Inglis mare sale in 2001. Also her dam, the Nassipour winner Vasadanya was sold at mare sales in New Zealand in 2003 for $5,750 and at 19 in 2006 for only $100 (one hundred dollars).

Our Baby Bonus is a representative of the third crop of Dash for Cash, one of the eight sires available for 2010 at Adam Sangster’s Swettenham Stud at Nagambie in Victoria and one who to date has had 123 individual winners and earners of $6.5million.

There are six black type money earners among the impressive tally of 70 winners in his first crop, headed by the Waterhouse trained Bank Robber, a winner of five races, including a Group 3 and 2 stakes, and collector of four Group1 cheques, seconds in the AJC Epsom and Doomben BTC Cup, third in the VRC Victoria Racing Club Stakes and fourth in the VRC Cantala Stakes.

Another Group1 performer in the first crop has been Extension of Time, runner up in the Caulfield Thousand Guineas. He has had winners in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth and also in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea.

Dash for Cash was a magnificent racehorse bred at Emirates Park, Murrurundi, Hunter Valley using their imported now deceased AJC Doncaster Handicap winner Secret Savings, a grandson of Mr. Prospector, and Gulistan, a daughter of Rubiton and the England produced Kalaglow mare Gulet.

In earning just under $2millon, Dash for Cash secured six first two Group1 cheques, wins in the MRC Futurity Stakes and VRC Australian Guineas and seconds in the AJC Doncaster, All Aged Stakes, STC George Ryder Stakes and MVRC William Reid Stakes.

He is an imposing looker who, besides the grey colouring, throws a lot to Kalaglow, himself typical of the Grey Sovereign influence, and is a sire who appeals as a very good medium for descendants of Danzig sires, including Danehill and Swettenham based Bianconi.

Poised to be represented this month at Royal Ascot in England by his Widden stud bound son Nicconi, Bianconi is the current leading Victorian sire by earnings and numerically

Both Dash for Cash (fee $14,500 or for early applicants $10,000) and Bianconi ($10,000 and $8,500) appear two of the best value sires available for 2010.

In fact from all the Swettenham sires, the most expensive of which are the imported overseas Group1 winners Host (by Hussonet; $14,500 and $9,500) and Soldier’s Tale (Stravinsky; $14,500 and $10,000). All fees include GST.

(Reprint from Brian Russell - Australian Thoroughbred)

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