NewsLetter · Gr1 winners Wilmas Mate and Amour de Frere while another stand out is one from imported mare One Star LB, a 1:55.9 classic winning Ital-ian mare whoe ganddam Gilly LB

Quaker Jet filly from Im Ready Set, gets into her work.

The first Down Under 2YO Quaker Jets are up and trotting, and at Yabby Dam Farms in Bal-larat, assistant trainer Ben Aubron is delighted with the progress his charges are making (See Video).

A Quaker Jet filly out of the winning mare Schleck has really caught Ben’s eye.

“She is beautiful, one of my favourites. She is really easy to drive. Good mannered, trots lovely and she has a good attitude,” This is the first foal of Schleck, who is a half-sister to Gr1 winner Le-mond, who is by Quaker Jet’s sire, Love You.

Ben is also very impressed with a Quaker Jet colt out of former champion mare Sumthingaboutmao-ri. “He is a really good looking colt, with a good attitude and is a really nice horse to drive.”

Ben says a Quaker Jet Filly out of Lets Be Hap-py, and thus a half to Gr2 winner Val Gardena was very well gaited and if shaping out to potentiaslly be a very nice horse.

And the Quaker Jet filly from I’m Ready Set is also a really nice looking, strong filly with a good attitude says Ben. The third foal of Im Ready Set who is related to Australian 4YO+ Mare Trotter of the Year and Gr.1 winner Sunny Ruby.

Lyell Creek relative Donegal Flat’s Quaker Jet filly is a 3/4 sister to Group winner Kincaslough is a beautiful filly, says Ben, She has a really good action and like all the Quaker Jet has a really good attitude, something that is a common theme around trainers in New Zealand as well.

Ben’s observations mirror those of Kiwi trainer Dave MacGowan who says all four of the Quaker

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Powerful Quaker Jet colt out of champion mare Sumthingaboutmaori.

Stunning Quaker Jet filly from the winning mare Schleck in work at Yabby Dam Farms.

USED TO ME fillies Imsettogo, left, and Command Me, right, both finalists as 2YOs in the Aus-tralian Breeders Crown.

Get USED TO ME, trotting from Day oneYabby Dam Farms moved quickly after seeing

the outstanding types thrown by French and Australian group winning sire Used To Me, in his first crop of just five foals now 3YOs.

Three of that crop started as 2YOs including two trial winners and with one dying in a training mis-hap, the four remaining are currently preparing to race as 3YOs, including Imsettogo and Command Me, who were both finalists in the Australasian Breeders Crown 2YO Fillies Final,.

His second crop was also small, just four foals,

but they are also training up well reveals Yabby Dam Farms assistant trainer Ben Aubron, includ-ing a colt out of My Dreamweaver

“He is a really nice colt to drive, I really like him,” says Ben, who also has a bit of time for a filly from Pretty Peggy Sue who is a half brother to Group One VSS 3YO champion Kinvara Sue and 2018 Vic. Oaks winner Pretty Majestic.

Ben is also particularly impressed with her year-ling full brother, a powerful colt, who should devel-op into yet another Used To Me 2YO runner.

BREEDING HINTSLike his sire Love You, should nick well with

smaller Sundon mares with a 92% strike rate (starters to foals) in Europe with Arnie Alma-hurst line mares and he also has a around 80% strike rate with Star’s Pride (Pegasus Spur, Crazed etc). Has nicked well with both Garland Lobell (Angus Hall, Majestic Son etc) and Balanced Image (Monarchy) ) and Valley Victory (Muscles Yankee, Muscle Mass etc) and his a high 66% with Speedy Crown (Arm-bro Invasion etc) lines. Source: Sophiapedi-grees. SERVICE FEE $5000 + GST

Jets he has broken in have been an absolute plea-sure to work with, quick learners, natural trotters and with a sensible attitude.

Quaker Jet, still Love You’s best son, is firmly es-tablished among the elite stallions in France, after a stellar racing career in which he won 1.75M eu-

ros, This included nine group races, three at group one level while he was also was second in the world’s greatest trotting race, the Prix d’Amerique.

Quaker Jet’s progeny have won over 11 million euros from just five crops racing and he is the sec-ond youngest sire currently in the French top 15, second only to Ready Cash.

Gorgeous Quaker Jet filly from Lets Be Happy.

Orlando ViciOrlando Vici had a Group winner among his

three winners (See Video) from only 11 foals in his first Australian crop.

He also had no less than five qualify for the AB Crown 2YO finals.

Most Down Under breeders missed the boat on Love You,

Don’t miss the boat on Orlando Vici.

BREEDING HINTS Geniune outcross sire who is proven (72% plus

starters to foals) in Europe over Speedy Crown (Armbro Invasion, Muscles Yankee etc), Star’s Pride (Pegasus Spur, CR Commando etc), Speed-ster (Sundon, Pine Chip) Balanced Image (Mon-archy) and Garland Lobell (Angus Hall, Majestic Son) lines especially with those carrying Speedy Crown maternally. Source: Sophiapedigrees

SERVICE FEE $8000 + GST

A VICBRED eligible Swedish-bred son of prov-en sire of sires Love You, Dreamcatcher is a potent mix of the very best US and French lines. His dam was a top filly herself, and a sister to International Group winner, the millionaire Ca-nadian trotter Wesgate Crown. Powerful and beautifully gaited, After show-ing blistering speed in training Dreamcatcher was reluctantly retired after injury restricted his racing to just one Australian start.

Dreamcatcher BREEDING HINTS By Love You, a proven sire of sires, who all

seem to have a real affinity for Arndon line mares (including of course Sundon). Dream-catcher is from the same maternal family as Speedy Somolli (grand sire of Valley Victo-ry) and Workaholic, who both changed the breed in France. With Andover Hall as his damsire should be a perfect match for An-gus Hall and Majestic Son mares, where his perfect temperament should be a bonus

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Indeed a dozen of Yabby Dam’s top mares went to Used To Me in his third season and those foals, now yearlings, are being broken in including a colt out of Royal Treat who was Gr1 placed as 2YO and a half sister to Nieta and from the immediate family of Breeders Crown champions Dance Craze and Reina Danzante, descending from champion mare La Coocaracha.

There is also a colt foal Bella Chevel, a half sister to Calder Sensation and a half sister the dam of Australian 2YO & 3YO Trotter of the Year Blitzthemcalder.

There is also a first foal colt from Eilish Monarch, who is a half sister to NZ Oaks winner Ella Powell, Amore Stride and Harriet Hughes the dam of Har-riet Of Mot, and from the same family is another

BREEDING HINTS Quiet temperament should suit bigger Sun-don and Majestic Son, Angus Hall mares, and ideal for mares by Pegasus Spur, Crazed, Barcardi Lindy, Britewell, Continentalman, CR Commando etc especially those that carry Speedy Crown maternally.

SERVICE FEE $2000 + GSTUSED TO ME 2YO filly out of Pretty Peggy Sue.

colt who is the second foal from Tricia Powell, a half sister to the promising Jaw D Nancy.

The pick of the yearling fillies may be one from Mybrotherwasastar and therefore a half-sister to Gr1 winners Wilmas Mate and Amour de Frere while another stand out is one from imported mare One Star LB, a 1:55.9 classic winning Ital-ian mare whoe ganddam Gilly LB was the richest and fastest 2YO in Europe in 2005.

USED TO ME 2YO colt out of My Dreamweaver.

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Send your mare to a Haras des Trotteurs resident stallion and utilitise the affordable chilled semen option this season.

Haras des Trotteurs is offering generous Multiple mare discounts on their three VICBRED eligible resident stallions Used To Me, Dreamcatcher and En Solitaire, who are available through fresh chilled semen.

These discounts apply only to mares within a shared ownership group and are available on a live foal basis on the following formula.

First live foal full price, second live foal 10% discount, third live foal 15% discount, fourth and subsequent live foals, 20%.

Breeders who use our frozen semen stallions, while not able to claim a discount on these ser-vices, are also able to count these as the first live foal, full price. Discounts can then apply to subse-quent live foals from fresh chilled semen stallions, payable on the same formula.

VICBRED eligibility means the stallion’s progeny are eligible to claim any of the lucrative VICBRED bonuses if and when they compete in Victoria for races which will be worth up to $80,000 this coming season.

A VICBRED First Win Bonus, pays $7,000 over and above the prizemoney for the first metropol-itan win which is split 80% to the current owner and five per cent each to the trainer, driver, stal-lion nominator and foal nominator. A restricted race win receives $3500 (half of the bonus) with the other half to be payable if they go on to win a career or metropolitan race.

VICBRED horses are also eligible to compete for over $4 million in prizemoney each season through the Vicbred Super Series (Male & female divisions for 2YOs, 3YOs & 4YOs).There are also monthly TM0 Vicbred Metropolitan Races and more than 100 races across Victoria each year for VICBRED eligible horses.

DISCOUNTS and VICBRED Two big reasons it pays to chill out this season

Love YouAustralasian breeders have been ecstatic with

the latest crop of Love You, while a large group of his yearlings are being prepared for sale.

Kiwi Michele Caig sent us this beautiful shot of her Sun Mist colt, whose granddam was none other than Dominion Handicap winner Merinai.

The book now full and closed in New Zealand for nznz Trotting sire of the year 2016 and 2017. & World No 1 Stallion by earnings 2012, 2013 & 2015. Sire of 2016 HRNZ Horse of the Year, Monbet, 2YO and 3YO Trotter of Year, Enghien, winners Great Things Happen, Habibi Inta, etc.

Dream VacationPerhaps a reminder of how good a stallion Dream Vacation is, was the performance of first starter Travel Bug to win the 3YO trot at Maryborough late last month for Anton Golino and Yabby Dam Racing. The internationally successful siring son of World Champion Pine Chip, and sire of champi-on trotter Stent, is still available to New Zealand breeders, through Haras des Trotteurs.

En SolitaireThe first son of super sire Ready Cash, En Solitaire is currently being let down in Australia after being finally retired, when his injury resurfaced in train-ing in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get to the races.

En Solitaire is bred on the same cross as Bold Eagle, being by Ready Cash out of a Love You mare. smh