Predatory Pricer
September 2nd 2009 04:57
When you breed a champion you have high hopes for any future progeny that the dam may produce.
(photo: Neil Murray)
Takeover Target rose from obscurity to champion status - and in the process the breeding career of his dam Shady Stream became something of great focus, and anticipation. But as with the vagaries of racing, Shady Stream has proven to have a very chequered breeding career. In twelve seasons she has produced three dead foals, and also missed on three occasions, providing a limited pool to pass along the genes of the family that produced such a magnificent champion as Takeover Target (Champion sprinter in Australia in 2006. Joint Champion older sprinter in GB in 2006).
With the retirement of Takeover Target, his half brother (by Street Cry) Predatory Pricer is starting the rise to great heights. This athletic chestnut stallion takes the eye of most racegoers when he parades - and on the track he is proving different in more ways than his colour to his (bay) sprinting half-brother, with his preferred distances already at 1400 metres and longer, including a Group Three win over 1800m in the Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill, and a very unlucky third at Group One in the 2400 metre AJC Australian Derby in the Autumn.
His first up performance to win the JJ Liston Stakes (Group Two) over 1400 metres at Caulfield was an outstanding performance, narrowly defeating champion Whobegotyou. His targets this campaign include the WS Cox Plate and the Caulfield Cup.
This year Shady Stream, the dam of Takeover Target, Predatory Pricer, and winning sisters (by Mr Henrysee) Shady Henrietta and Saskarla, has produced a chestnut colt by the Dubai Millennium stallion Dubawi (winner of 5 races including the Group One Curragh National Stakes). He was sold at the 2009 William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale for $425,000 to Paul Murray, trainer of Predatory Pricer.
Neil Murray took the photograph of Predatory Pricer as he paraded before the Liston Stakes. And directly below (in comparison) is the photo of his yearling half-brother from the William Inglis website. He doesn’t look at all like Takeover Target - but he does bear a strong resemblance to Predatory Pricer.
Predatory Pricer
(photo: Neil Murray)
Takeover Target rose from obscurity to champion status - and in the process the breeding career of his dam Shady Stream became something of great focus, and anticipation. But as with the vagaries of racing, Shady Stream has proven to have a very chequered breeding career. In twelve seasons she has produced three dead foals, and also missed on three occasions, providing a limited pool to pass along the genes of the family that produced such a magnificent champion as Takeover Target (Champion sprinter in Australia in 2006. Joint Champion older sprinter in GB in 2006).
With the retirement of Takeover Target, his half brother (by Street Cry) Predatory Pricer is starting the rise to great heights. This athletic chestnut stallion takes the eye of most racegoers when he parades - and on the track he is proving different in more ways than his colour to his (bay) sprinting half-brother, with his preferred distances already at 1400 metres and longer, including a Group Three win over 1800m in the Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill, and a very unlucky third at Group One in the 2400 metre AJC Australian Derby in the Autumn.
His first up performance to win the JJ Liston Stakes (Group Two) over 1400 metres at Caulfield was an outstanding performance, narrowly defeating champion Whobegotyou. His targets this campaign include the WS Cox Plate and the Caulfield Cup.
This year Shady Stream, the dam of Takeover Target, Predatory Pricer, and winning sisters (by Mr Henrysee) Shady Henrietta and Saskarla, has produced a chestnut colt by the Dubai Millennium stallion Dubawi (winner of 5 races including the Group One Curragh National Stakes). He was sold at the 2009 William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale for $425,000 to Paul Murray, trainer of Predatory Pricer.
Neil Murray took the photograph of Predatory Pricer as he paraded before the Liston Stakes. And directly below (in comparison) is the photo of his yearling half-brother from the William Inglis website. He doesn’t look at all like Takeover Target - but he does bear a strong resemblance to Predatory Pricer.
Predatory Pricer
half-brother by Dubawi
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