Our home grown stallions loading up with strong support

15 January 2021 | By John Coffey and Peter Wharton
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Australian breeders have been notoriously shy over the past 20 to 30 years in supporting stallions that are bred in the Southern Hemisphere, albeit with a few exceptions such as Christian Cullen, Classic Garry, Courage Under Fire and Elsu.

Consequently large amounts of money have been drained from our Australian Breeding Industry in supporting the North American owned shuttle stallions.

However, that hasn’t been all bad news for our Industry as in the current season five sons of those stallions - American Ideal, Art Major, Bettors Delight and Somebeachsomewhere – have all bred more than 100 mares in Australia.

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