JUNE 2010

Well what a year it has been, Robbie Heathcote has been charging ahead in the Brisbane Trainers premiership once again. One of the stable stars “Our Lukas” won the Ipswich Cup for the second consective year. Carrying top weight and drawing an outside barrier made the win even more memorable.

We have 20 nice colts and one filly being prepared for the 2010 Magic Millions horses in training sale, which will be held on the Gold Coast the last week of October. One of the stand out colts is the half brother to “Black and Bent” which is by Barley A Moment. We also have two very nice colts by Holy Roman Emperor, whose progeny just sold extremely well at the recent weanling sales. We will also have two year olds by More Than Ready, Falvelon, Written Tycoon, Beautiful Crown, Dehere, Kitten’s Joy, Stromberg Carlson, Greenwood Lake, Zaha, Markane, Hotel Grand and Face Value. All the Queensland bred horses have been paid up for the QTIS 600 series.

I will have photos and pedigrees available closer to the sale.

Some of the top winter carnival horses have come to spell at Washpool to enjoy the Queensland sunshine. “Press Day” and “ Stryker” from the Chris Waller stable are enjoying a well earned break along with the start of the Peter Snowden/ Darley team of “Zachary”, “Status Quo”, “Secession”, “Kanzan”, and “Launay”. “Arvan”, “Enzed Girl” and “Persian Star” are really enjoying the Queensland break, escaping from the Victorian winter! We would like to thank the southern trainers Chris Waller, Peter Snowden, Peter Moody, Robert Smerdon and Lee Freedman for entrusting us with the care of their stable stars.

"Fabfevola” has continued his winning form for Byran Guy, this horse was broken in at Washpool. Paparika has been returning to her good two year old form after having some long injury lay offs. It’s great to see her back earning prizemoney.

Emma rode her horse “Leewood Oliver Twist” to 8 firsts, and 2 seconds at our zone 3 gymkhana to win her age group. Emma has been having a fun time with her new horse.

Brooke won the Qld owner/rider large pony of the year on Holly’s Work of Art as well as intermediate large pony of the year at the recent Equestrian Queensland newcomer of the year show. Leanda Makers Mark also placed third in the Newcomer Ridden large pony of the year as well as winnng his led youngstock class.

Brooke has just been very fortunate to have the opportunity to purchase “Capone” from Paula and Oliva Hamood. I know this was a very sad sale for the Hamood family as they have owned the horse for ten years, and Paula represented Australia in New Zealand three times with him. Hopefully Brooke can form a partnership with him and continue his great success in the showjumping ring.

MARCH 2010

Brooke had an amazing month winning Queensland Pony Club state D Champion on Torchbearer. This was held over three classes and she placed 4 th, 1 st and 1 st to earn enough points to be the overall champion. She has now been selected on the Queensland Team to compete at the NSW State Championships being held in July at Kendall Showgrounds.

She then changed disciplines and went to Toowoomba Royal with Holly’s Work of Art and Warriewood Duplicate to compete in the pony hack ring. What a great show she had winning Supreme Champion ridden riding pony on Holly’s Work of Art, as well as 5 firsts and 5 Champions including Champion Novice Large pony hack. Warriewood Duplicate placed in her classes and has now has been sold to a fantastic new home with Phoebe Robertson, we wish them every success with her

NOVEMBER 2009

WE SOLD THE MELBOURNE CUP WINNER!
What a two months they have been! We took a fantastic draft of two year olds to the Magic Millions Horses in training sale and topped the sale with our outstanding colt by Bel Esprit out of Bellain, we purchased this horse back in January for $20 000 and he sold to his lucky new owners for $360 000. He will be trained in Victoria by Peter Morgan and is named Seriously Good. Can’t wait to see him in the winner’s circle soon.

Congratulations to all of the lucky purchasers of our draft it was great to see so many repeat buyers back.
Viva Pronto by Catcher in the Rye, who we sold in the 2007 Horses in training sale, has now won 7 out of 10 races. He is rated as the best horse in Singapore.

Shocking proved a fantastic buy for Laurence Eales from our 2007 draft also, we are so proud to have sold our first Melbourne Cup winner. Mr Eales paid $64 000 for the Street Cry colt, which proves you can always find a bargain in the Washpool Lodge Draft.
Congratulations to Gillen Heinrich and her team for winning the first Brisbane 2yo race with her General Nediym filly, which we broke and pre-trained for her.

Also Liam Birchley took his Devil’s Melody to the tough Melbourne Spring carnival for her first start to just be beaten. Hugh effort for a first starter. All Liam’s breaking in is done by the Washpool team.

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AUGUST 2009 Brooke has started her showjumping career winning the under 14 years, six bar jumping 1.20m, and placing 4th in the 80cm Table Am5 out of 75 entries, at the Toowoomba world cups show on Torchbearer. Congratulations to Robert Heathcote on winning his first Brisbane Trainers premiership. Robert has been a loyal client since he first took out his trainers license in Brisbane. Mondiso Park Just A Dream has now been retired to stud and will be mated with Royalwood Boy Soprano next month. Hopefully she can produce another royal show star like herself.

JULY 2009

Leanda Makers Mark went to Laidley show which was his first show under saddle, he won his maiden and novice pony hack classes ne 14hh. We were very proud of his outstanding temperament and he took to the show ring like an old professional. We are really looking forward to doing the 2010 newcomer classes with him.

All the ponies are now getting ready for Brisbane Royal in August and the Northern NSW Hack championships witch are being held the week after the Ekka.

Mirinda Chanel won Champion Open pony hack at Redcliffe show. All the breeze up sale horses are now broken in and having a spell.

Rocky Habit has returned for some pre-training so look out for him soon in the winners circle with Mick Mair at Caloundra. Best of Luck to Robbie and Liam in the trainers premiership. Which ever way it goes both have done a fantastic job for their owners this season.

Emma is on the look out for a young pony to train for led classes, so we may have a new addition to the team soon.

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