Pedigree Dynamics News Blog

This week, 6-time Group One winner Sea The Stars was crowned 2009 European Horse-Of-The-Year & Champion 3YO Colt at the Cartier Awards presented at Claridges Hotel in London. Sea The Stars is by Cape Cross out of a mare by Miswaki, who just keeps bobbing up as a wonderful broodmare sire. Not only is he dam sire of Sea The Stars and other Group One winners Dalakhani, Galileo, Daylami, Hernando and My Typhoon, but he is also sire of the dam of More Than Ready's latest stakes winner in the US, Mary's Follies. Our Broodmare of the Month is Miss Neck (USA) by Miswaki, one of only nine of his active broodmare daughters in Australia. Interestingly, she shares even more in common with Sea The Stars, being out of a SW Green Desert mare. Sea The Stars' sire Cape Cross is by Green Desert. A terrifically fertile mare, Miss Neck has missed only once in 12 years at stud and that was in the year of EI. She has had 8 to race for 4 winners including the 5-time winner High Ransom, who also ran 4th in the Listed Japan Trophy. Her three year old, Big Boori has run 2nd at Doomben is just a handful of starts and promises to improve over longer journeys. He races this Saturday at Eagle Farm. She has a 2 yo colt by Minardi and a weanling filly by Not A Single Doubt (pictured) coming through. She is over 45 days in foal to Not A Single Doubt on her first service (LDS 24/9). A lovely, correct type with a great temperament, Miss Neck is great buying at $17,500 no GST. Her 2009 Not A Single Doubt filly will be retained and weaned in January, so the owners are prepared to subsidize Miss Necks' agistment at Oaklyn, Willowtree. Miss Neck will continue on 2 hard feeds plus hay at a cost of $10 plus GST per day to the new owner until the filly is weaned.