A white horse makes Queensland breeding history
Appearance for the first time in an Australian thoroughbred stallion register of a white horse
A white horse makes Queensland breeding history.
QUEENSLAND breeding history has been made this year with the appearance for the first time in an Australian thoroughbred stallion register of a white horse. Truly named PURE WHITE, he is one of three sires based at the Kelly family’s long established Royston Stud, one like Glenlogan Park and the Sun Stud, located in the Innisplain Valley, whose qualifications, pedigree and photograph are among 49 in the Queensland Thoroughbred Breeders 2016 edition of their Stallion Register.
On a fee of $4,400, the Australian bred Pure White starts his career at Royston this year alongside another newcomer in PRINCE CHERI (FR) (Lando (Ger) – Princess Cheri (Ger), by Mondrian (Ger), a winner France (two starts), Group 3 winner, Goup1 performed Australia, fee $6,600, and proven sire of stakes winners LONGHORN (Danehill – Fitting, by Marscay) fee $4,400.
The appearance of Pure White at stud follows the enterprise of the founders of the Winning Colours Farm at Rockley, near Bathurst in importing coloured thoroughbreds from America. A foundation sire has been PROFILE IN STYLE, ‘a world class and performance colored thoroughbred stallion’.
A bay bred in America in 2006, Profile in Style appears to the first ever frame over thoroughbred to come to Australia. He has a fashionable thoroughbred pedigree, being by Ellusive Quest, a bay with a lot of white by a son of the influential Halo and from a mare by the Secretariat sire Shantariat.
So far Profile in Style has had 64 foals registered by the Australian Thoroughbred Stud Book.Three are white, including Pure White (2011) and a younger brother born 2013. They are from Laughyoumay, a white daughter of Sky Chase (won Champagne Stakes, Rosehill Guineas, Gloaming Stakes, Chelmsford Stakes and Caulfield Stakes) and from Harrisburg, a stakes placed daughter of Diagramatic (USA).
A stakes performer in France and America used at the Waikato Stud in New Zealand when it was owned by Texas oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt, Diagramatic was by Sir Wiggle. He was from Wiggle, an exported champion Australian 2-year-old who at this age won the Stradbroke at Eagle Farm.
Wiggle, a daughter of the Nasrullah sire Rego (Ire), was bred ten minutes’ drive away from the famous Kia Ora stud, Segenhoe Valley, Scone, one which bred the Hall of Fame inducted Shannon. Also exported to America, Shannon’s fourth dam, Brig of Ayre, was a half-sister to Santa Cruz, a bottom line ancestress of Pure White.
PURE WHITE
