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Ego’s First Trial Winner

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Group Two winning stallion EGO sired his first trial winner at Matamata yesterday when a stylish 2yo gelding from the Ekraar mare, Surraar was an impressive winner on trial debut.

Trained by Ben Ropiha at Cambridge, the Ego gelding showed off the blistering speed his sire was known for by starting from the outside gate, crossing the field and winning impressively by 1 and 3/4 lengths in a time of 38.06 for the 650m and in the quickest time of the day on a Good 3 track. You can view his trial win here.

Purchased at the 2015 Ready To Run Sales for $30,000 by Singapore owner Mr. SK Tang, today’s trial winner is a strong, upstanding type typical of his sire Ego whose stock have already made a big impression on leading trainers such as Peter Williams, Graham Richardson and Stephen McKee.

Co-incidentally, the runner up in the heat is out of San Souci, a stakes placed half-sister to Ego making it a real family affair and behind that pair were several highly regarded and well bred two-year-olds

Feedback from breeders has been very positive on the Ego progeny despite limited opportunities with a number of them having patronized the stallion over several seasons, with mares sent to Ego in both his second and third seasons at stud exceeding his first season. With Ego’s progeny looking likely to improve with age, today’s early trial win has shown the raw ability that Ego possessed himself and his first raceday runner is eagerly anticipated.

Ego has stood free of charge at Haunui Farm to date.

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Ego at Haunui Farm

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Ego joined the Haunui Farm stallion roster in October 2012. Standing at Haunui Farm on behalf of his owners, Daniel and Elias Nakhle, Ego stands for free – yes, no service fee is payable!

The fastest son of the fastest son of the great Mr Prospector in E Dubai, Ego is out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Buckling who has so far left four foals to race including Ego and a further two stakes performers.

“A graded stakes winning sprinter by Mr. Prospector’s brilliant son, E Dubai. His dam, by the mighty Redoute’s Choice, is from the Denise’s Joy family that has produced such champions as Thorn Park, Joie Denise, Tuesday Joy, Sunday Joy, More Joyous and Bentley Biscuit… a product of the Mr. Prospector/Northern Dancer cross, as are such world-class sires as Kingmambo, Distorted Humor, Empire Maker and Speightstown.”

ALAN PORTER – PEDIGREE EXPERT

The winner of one of the strongest fields assembled for the G2 Concorde Handicap at Ellerslie, Ego beat no less than nine other stakes winners (three G1 winners, one G2 winner, two G3 winners and three listed winners) in a field of 12.

One of the quickest horses to get into stride in the country, no matter what the barrier, Ego led in most of his races and loved good tracks running just outside the course record at Matamata in 1.08.62 from the front.

Ego underwent emergency colic surgery as a 2YO and this undoubtedly had a lasting effect on him during his racing career. Hailing from the great Denise’s Joy family and with the likes of Thorn Park featuring in his pedigree, Ego provides a great opportunity for small breeders to access a successful sireline for no service fee.

Haunui Farm is a thoroughbred stud farm located in Karaka, Auckland. Breeding thoroughbred racehorses today requires a totally professional approach and at Haunui Farm, we have a reputation for providing the very best facilities for the agistment of your bloodstock, access to world-class stallions, an onsite veterinarian, expert knowledge and marketing strategies to ensure our clients receive the best opportunity to achieve success. Haunui Farm is proud of its long tradition as one of the finest thoroughbred studs in New Zealand with almost sixty years of success in the thoroughbred breeding and racing industry.

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READY STEADY – GREAT FOR EGO!

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READY STEADY – GREAT FOR EGO!

Ego’s half-sister Ready Steady is keeping the family in the limelight with a stunning win at Matamata ten days ago.  The five-year-old Perfectly Ready mare trained at Byerley Park by Dawn and Peter Williams beat a smart field in the R85 1600m to take her winning tally to four.  Ready Steady had the race in control 100m out and won going away in a smart 1.34.1 for the 1600m.  The win reinforces her trainers belief that she will go over more ground and her target is a 2100m race on the final day of the Auckland Carnival.

Ready Steady is owned by Byerley Park proprietors Daniel and Elias Nakhle who stand Group 2 Concorde winner Ego at Haunui Farm.  In an initiative to give the horse every opportunity as a stallion, the Nakhles’ stand Ego free of charge.

His first crop of foals arrived this season and there has been an immediate response from breeders, many of whom have already re-booked their mares for the coming season.  Ego is an upstanding, handsome individual with a great temperament and is stamping his foals in the same mould.  Colts and fillies alike, they are correct, muscular and have the quality to make their sire an exciting addition to the stallion ranks.

Ego’s sire E Dubai (by Mr Prospector)  is a proven international stallion with 33 stakes winners, consistently ranked in the top 10 stallions in the USA and Leading active sire in the Mid-Atlantic region in 2013.  Ego is out of Redoute’s Choice mare Buckling who as well as stakes winner Ego and stakes placed Ready Steady, is also the dam of Sans Souci who won three and was also placed in stakes company.

 

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E DUBAI – A NORTH EAST STANDOUT

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E DUBAI – A NORTH EAST STANDOUT

A couple of recent observations drew our attention to E Dubai, who we’ve noted before as a very good value-for-money sire. One was the upset victory last weekend of the progressive 3-year-old filly My Gi Gi in the Honeymoon Handicap (gr. II). The other was a look at the leading Beyer speed figures of 2012, where we noticed that in among some of the current 3-year-old and handicap stars, as one of only two horses with two figures in the top eight at a mile or up was the relatively unheralded Fort Larned, who has run a pair of 108s, one when breaking the 9½-furlong track-record in Gulfstream Park’s Skip Away Stakes (gr. III). Fort Larned runs Saturday night in the grade I Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs.

This prompted us to take a fresh look at E Dubai, who now stands at Northview PA in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania. Initially retired to Darley in Kentucky, E Dubai had the race record and pedigree to be any sort of sire. On his day he could be a spectacular runner. He broke his maiden at 2 over five furlongs, setting fractions of :21.8, and :44.9, and at 3 he took the Dwyer Stakes (gr. II) in a track-record time of 1:40.38 after leading through fractions of :22.2, :44.1; 1:07.9; and 1:33.54. Second that year in the Travers Stakes (gr. I)—to Point Given —and the Super Derby (gr. I), E Dubai proved that he could carry that front-running speed 10 furlongs with a win over Lido Palace, Macho Uno, Pure Prize and Evening Attire in the Suburban Handicap (gr. I) at 4.

The pedigree matched the performance: one of the last top-class performers sired by Mr. Prospector, E Dubai, is out of the Lord At War mare Words of War. A multiple stakes winner of over $680,000, Words of War is also dam of the Del Mar Oaks (gr. I) victress No Matter What (herself dam of three stakes winners, including European champion 2-year-old filly Rainbow View). Words of War is also a sister to Ascutney, a graded stakes winner and dam of English champion 3-year-old and Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) captor Raven’s Pass (a grandson of Mr. Prospector).

E Dubai started his stud career with a stutter-step, and due to initial hesitance in the transition from racehorse to stallion had only 45 named foals in that first crop. However, that limited first crop produced grade II winners High Heels and Buy the Barrel, grade III winners Desert Code and Dubious Miss, and stakes winners Barilko and Spark of Dubai. Although his career never quite regained commercial momentum, E Dubai has gone on to sire 27 stakes winners, including 13 graded in his first six crops.

Like any good son of Mr. Prospector should, E Dubai has crossed well with Northern Dancer, and nine of his 24 Northern Hemisphere-sired black-type winners are products of matings with sons or grandsons of Northern Dancer, three more by great-grandsons, and one out of a great-great-grandson. The cross with mares from the Danzig branch has produced five stakes winners, including the New Zealand-born graded scorer Ego (TrueNicks A) out of a mare by Redoute’s Choice (AUS) (by Danehill), as well as other black-type scorers from daughters of Pine Bluff, Langfuhr (two), and (giving a 2×4 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector).

Recent graded scorer My Gi Gi is out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells (three-parts-brother to Nureyev, who is the sire of the grade I-winning No Matter What out of the dam of E Dubai, as well as being broodmare sire of an E Dubai stakes winner). Other sons or grandsons of Northern Dancer to appear as broodmare sire of E Dubai stakes winners are Night Shift (responsible for the dam of grade II winner Skysurfers, who is TrueNicks A), Dixieland Band (broodmare sire of grade II winner Aggie Engineer, who is TrueNicks B) and Dancing Brave (by Lyphard). The other branch of Northern Dancer that has done well under E Dubai is that of Storm Cat, and there are stakes winners by E Dubai out of daughters of Mountain Cat (graded scorer Dubious Miss), Cat Thief, and Tabasco Cat (all TrueNicks A++). Barilko, a standout at 2 in Canda, is out of a daughter of Greinton (by Green Dancer, a son of Nijinsky II).

While none are as prolific as the cross with Northern Dancer line mares, there are some other strains for which E Dubai has shown a very strong affinity. The clearly very talented Fort Larned, and Once More Dubai—champion 3-year-old colt in Italy—are two stakes winners from only five starters sired by E Dubai from daughters of Broad Brush (a cross that TrueNick rates A++). There are only eight starters by E Dubai out of mares by Timeless Moment and his sons and grandsons, and that has resulted in grade II winner High Heels (TrueNicks A++), who is out of a Gilded Time mare, and Spark of Dubai (also TrueNicks A++), out of a mare by Timeless Moment himself. Broad Brush’s sire, Ack Ack, also appears as broodmare sire of Lost Code, and from a Lost Code mare comes E Dubai’s multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Desert Code (TrueNicks A).

E Dubai might never hit the heights that seemed possible when he retired to stud, but at his 2012 stud fee of $9,000, he is a horse who offers breeders in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region an awfully good value-for-money shot at a stakes, or even graded stakes, class horse.

source: http://pedigreeconsultants.com/2012/06/16/e-dubai-a-north-east-standout/

 

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Press Release: EGO DOING IT AGAIN

EGO DOING IT AGAIN

Following on from the popularity of standing Group 2 winning stallion Ego free of charge last season, Daniel and Elias Nakhle are proud to announce that they are doing it all again this season.

“With breeding still at a low ebb, and with our offer being appreciated by many small breeders up and down the country last season, we are going to maintain the free offer for mare owners to have a real chance of making breeding pay for them” said part owner Daniel Nakhle.

Even beyond the free service offer, selected mares may also qualify on their breeding, race performance or breeding record for a transport subsidy.

Ego is the fastest son of the fastest son of the great Mr. Prospector in E Dubai (#1 SIRE IN PENNSYLVANIA in 2011 and 2012 and Top Ten Stallions in the USA with Progeny Earnings over USD$7.5M in 2012 and over USD$30M in total) out of Buckling, a mare by the mighty Redoute’s Choice who has left three winners being a stakes winning stallion and two stakes placed fillies, from only four starters.

E Dubai is fast making a name for himself as a top international stallion with his multiple G1 winning son Fort Larned winning the G1 Breeders Cup Classic in 2012, Skysurfers a winner of the G2 Meydan Godolphin Mile, Italian Champion Once More Dubai and Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint hero Desert Code.

“What excites me with Ego is not only is his sire E Dubai seeing worldwide stakes winners but also Ego’s dam sire, Redoute’s Choice, is fast making a name for himself as a top class broodmare sire with the likes of Sacred Falls doing an amazing job for him”.

“The Mr. Prospector line stallions seem to thrive in New Zealand with the like of Straight Strike, Faltaat and Indian Ore all greatly out punching their own race records”

The winner of one of the strongest fields assembled for the G2 Concorde Handicap at Ellerslie, he beat no less than three G1 winners and six other stakes winners in a field of 12.

“We received a great response after Ego was announced half way through the breeding season last year and want to build on the good numbers he received. In fact the phone ran hot and mare owners already had their Ego foal’s lined up with some brilliant plays on the stallions name. It was a lot of fun!” enthused Nakhle.

“I have always been anti-cyclical in my thinking and with the increasing likelihood of racing being opened up in China, I can see that there is a real potential in the short term of the breeding trend having a major correction and New Zealand breeders struggling to keep up with demand for our racehorses. In the meantime, the best way to give breeders a chance of making a profit is to drop input costs which is why we are standing Ego free of charge again and in fact will pay a transport subsidy for qualifying mares”.

“The way I look at it is we only have about 400-500 Premier mares in New Zealand. That means we have another 4000 or so mares that are really breed to race prospects and need a stallion at a cost that gives them a breeder a real chance of making a profit and “free of charge plus money back” is about as good a chance at profit as it gets!”

The Nakhle’s appreciate the Chitty family’s generous offer to stand Ego at the fantastic facilities of Haunui Farm in Karaka where Ego joins Iffraj and Showcasing in a high class line up for all budgets.