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US bred Melbourne Cup winners part 3 - Kingston Rule

The third of our series is the 1990 winner, Kingston Rue

Kingston Rule had a total of only eighteen starts in his career, all in Australia.  He was part of a cutting edge breeding program by Kingston Park Stud, and its owners, the Haines family.  Their great mare, Rose Of Kingston was sent to the U…

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US Bred Melbourne Cup winners Part II At Talaq

At Talaq was also trained by Colin Hayes, who was to stand the stallion upon retirement at his Lindsay Park property.

Just as we saw with Beldale Ball, At Talaq hails from one of the classic female family of the stud book.  This time it is through a mare called Preserve who is noted as largely the …

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Beldale Ball - the first US bred winner of the Melbourne Cup

This is the first in a series of US bred winners of the Melbourne Cup

Beldale Ball was trained for the Cup by the late Colin Hayes.  He was perhaps the first of the true imports that came over with the Cup in mind, and managed to scrape into the field with a postage stamp weight of 49.5kgs.  Beldale …

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Northern Dancer

Northern Dancer has proven to be the most influential sire of thoroughbreds perhaps in the history of the breed.  His international success has led to a globalisation of the breed, and changed the racehorse forever.

The stallion was born in Canada in 1961, a produce of champion stallion Nearctic a…

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Charlton Boy - A Queensland favourite galloper of the 70's

Charlton BoyThe 1970’s gave us a long list of quality horses in Queensland. The decade started with the great horse Tails in full flight, and saw champions like Gunsynd and Dalrello carry the flag against the best the country had to offer. One of the greatest rivalries of the turf was born at that time, and few…

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New Website

I am pleased to announce some new websites that we have just launched.

http://progoldthoroughbreds.com is the new home for Progold Thoroughbreds, an Australian based thoroughbred racing consultancy. If you want to know how to select or breed a better horse, you need to talk to Progold Thoroughbreds…

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