June News - Filly broken in

Our Dr Johnson filly has completed her education in flying colours.

Robert Whitten who did the breaking in has reported to Brett that she broke in extremely well and handled everything asked of her.

In view of the fact she broke in well and was deserving of a good rest Brett has sent her straight for a spell down at the Waroona agistment property of Carey Smith, along with about half a dozen of Brett's other yearlings.

She will remain there for around 10 weeks before coming back to Brett's for more educational work and hopefully at the completion of this a jump out at Lark Hill before going for another spell.

Brett has reported that not being a robust filly he has decided to rug her during her spell to keep her warm and help build up strength and some more body mass. The vet has also given her some injections which will help with that. Hopefully she will build up a bit over her spell.

Some other news worth mentioning is that her 2yo brother, a grey chestnut by Akhenation under the care of Bernadine Dudley has been apparently jumping out well at Larkhill. As yet unnamed it is rumoured to have some ability and could be hitting the trial and/or racetrack very soon. I will be keeping an eye on this horse's progress as any success it has will naturally enhance the broodmare prospects of our filly.

Filly being broken in

Post dated from May 17th

Brett has decided to send our filly, along with a few other of his yearlings to Capel trainer Robert Witten for the initial breaking in. Those who were present at the Ascot Bloodstock Open day can atest to the fact that Brett has a full stable at the moment. Brett thought it best to get them broken in now whilst this breaker was available. Brett has liased with this trainer before and assures me he will do a good job. Robert will have the horse for approximately 4 weeks before she comes up to Bretts and he does the last few weeks himself and makes sure she has broken in well.

Brett is currently renovating his stables and has more than half the job done. When finished he will have room for even more gallopers with new boxes still to be built in addittion to the 25 already available. Having seen many stables at Ascot I can safely say Bretts stable would rival any of his city counterparts when finished. His boxes are much larger and are nicely covered in shade whilst allowing for breeze to get thro. He is literally on the doorstep of Pinjarra racecourse and has access to a sandtrack, a 5 horse walker, a brand new treadmill which we saw in action and one of the best roundyard/lunging yards I have ever seen.


To read about the Ascot Bloodstock Open Day click this link - http://www.perthturftalk.com/news.php?news_id=1164

April Update

Our filly is still enjoying her time out at Benjomar Park.

A few weeks ago she picked up a small cold, which can happen with young horses in paddocks, but should be over that now. Otherwise she is doing fine.

Brett has told me she will be the last of the horses to be broken in, given that she is likely to not start racing until 3yo and a later maturing horse. This will probably be in about 2 or more months time.

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Some more about our trainer Brett Pope

taken from http://www.ascotbloodstock.com.au/


Brett has been a fully fledged trainer since July 1 2007.

Prior to this, Brett managed the racing stables of one of the best trainers of his day, Bill Pope, his father and mentor. As stable foreman for Bill Pope, Brett forged the impressive record of 17% winners and 40% placegetters from 136 starters in the 2007 season.When Bill retired at the end of the 06/07 racing season, Brett's intimate knowledge of the stable and its horses allowed him to continue with that record into the 07/08 season.

His stats to date are 77 starters for 10.4% winners and 32.5% place getters.

Brett's stables are on Racecourse Road Pinjarra, a stones throw from the Pinjarra racecourse which in itself is a favourite haunt for Pope runners. With such a convenient location, horses have no travel time to the track, instead they walk there. Facilities are complete with a 25 box complex, walking machine, rural training surrounds with access to grass and sand tracks at Pinjarra.Brett's eye for confirmation and ability were demonstrated via his choice of Solidwickedcruel for stable clients at the 2005 sales, a purchase of just $10,000. To date, Solidwickedcruel has amassed eight wins and eight placings from 22 starts and in excess of $175,000 in stakemoney.


He's young, passionate and history shows he knows his horseflesh.

Filly fully sold!!

All the remaining shares in the Dr Johnson filly have been taken up.

Once I get the paperwork completed I will get anyone that hasn't already done so to submit some names to me (2 per 10% share) and then we can have a vote before sending them off to the registrar.

Benjomar Park Visit - 14th March

As you will see from the attached video our Dr Johnson filly is doing well.

She is obviously being well looked after and is already looking a lot bigger than when I saw her at the yearling sales.

There are still 2 shares available so if anyone has friends or family who may be interested please show them this blog and/or pass on my contact details.

Photos of the filly....

Good friend and fellow Perth Turf Talk partner Geoff Whittle with Bunbury trainer Tim Crosby where kind enough to venture over to our filly's agistment paddock in Dardanup and take some happy snaps.

As you can see she has some growing still to do but is a nice type.










Thanks Geoff!!!

Whats in a name???

As of this moment in time the heading of this blog contains the name "Pulse of Perth".

This is there for no other reason for this except I wanted a heading with the name of the filly and as we are naming her as a partner group I choose my current preferred name to fill the temporary gap.

The majority of race horses running around are named after the sire or dam - this horse's dam by Bletchley Park was named Broglio - which is the name of a famous baseballer in Usa. Bletchley Park from the dam Enigma was named due it being the country estate in the UK that was the centre of codebreaking activity in WW2 - the famous enigma code.

I will be asking all partners to submit two names each after which time we will be voting to decide the preference in which they are submitted to the registrar.

Once we have named the filly its there for good - so think smartly about the names and vote wisely.

Here are some other names that I have thought of or have been suggested to me that I don't mind (a lot of them have the Doctor connection) -

Stephi Scope, Hearts A Mess, Scrubs, Temperature Rising, Stemcell, Saline Solution, Ecee Gee Gee, Unlock the Doc, and Cure All.