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.

Pedigree Report

Lot 91 Magic Millions Perth Sale 2008
Chestnut filly Dr Johnson x Broglio (Bletchley Park)
Nijinsky 3fx4m sex balanced
Northern Dancer 4m x 5m,5m
Buckpasser 4f,4f x
Roman Dosage Profile: (5-0-10-3-0)
Dosage Points: 18 D.I.: 1.25 C.D.: 0.39

Pedigree Report by Karin "Kat" Webster

You know what a Dr Johnson fan I am and I would personally love to own a filly by him. Since he is deceased the chances to get a hold of one are limited, so any filly by him going to auction now must be considered if wanting to obtain the blood. I think in years to come we will see Dr Johnson as broodmare sire of some extremely good gallopers and probably a couple of outright champions. His two lines to one of the greatest distaff influences of all in Buckpasser, his Mr Prospector blood and his wonderful damline will make him a formidable genetic force through his daughters and grand daughters.

It is also most appealing to see that this filly is sex balanced to Nijinsky 3f x 4m, always a promising line breeding subject, and she has a third line to Northern Dancer through Palace Music who is an extremely close genetic relation to Nijinsky and like him a superior distaff influence. This is no doubt due largely to the superb mare Flaming Page to whom the dam of Lot 91 has a valuable sex balance 4mx4f. A very big tick in her favor in my opinion believing as I do in the necessity of line breeding to great mares, not just great stallions. (We only have to look as far as Northerly to see what inbreeding to Flaming Page can bring about)

The dam of lot 91 Broglio also carries two lines to Princequillo and her third dam Century Miss (Golden Slipper winner) is by yet another hugely influential broodmare sire in Century.
If you wanted a filly carrying a well rounded and cleverly “energized” selection of the very best distaff genetics available to the modern breeder in WA, on paper Lot 91 is a lovely choice. And she has something a little bit extra working in her favor that could definitely enhance her already very good prospects both a racemare and a broodmare.
Lot 91’s seventh dam carries a sex balanced line breeding to the breed shaping sire West Australian through her sire Linacre (the West Australian male line) and her third dam La Naine, a daughter of West Australian.
The West Australian male line is more famously the male line of Man O War and his sone War Admiral who is so prominent in Buckpasser. This is also the male line of Display who appears for example in Mr Prospector through Native Dancer, who was out of the Display mare Geisha. West Australian is also a vital factor in the sire Ben Brush, and his sons Broomstick and Sweep – Ben Brush’s sire Bramble was out of a mare by a son of West Australian. West Australian is also the damsire of Musket, sire of Spearmint and Nearco’s third dam was by Spearmint etc.etc. Thus we see the Northern Dancer / Nasrullah link to this mighty sire.

What makes this filly a very attractive prospect is the way the lower quarter of her dam Broglio’s pedigree lends itself so beautifully to a sire like Dr Johnson, who carries many high quality lines to the American West Australian male line stallions and also to their influential daughters. Broglio really is genetically structured in such a way as to respond powerfully to this mating and produce something very good – hopefully that is exactly what she has done in the shape of Lot 91.
There are also nice balancing influences throughout the filly’s pedigree in terms of the always invaluable French influence Djebel blending with other French bred horses in the pedigree (eg: the dam of Nasrullah’s superb son Nashua) and the sire Roi Herode, who is another powerful influence on the tail female line of Lot 91 through inbreeding to the grand sire Blue Peter (out of a mare by The Tetrarch, son of Roi Herode) The obvious link is with Nasrullah, out of a Tetrarch granddaughter, but this great sire also appears in Native Dancer and thus Northern Dancer, as well as through a number of other individuals.

This filly hails from a nice family. I note that Natural Blitz (the champion HK sprinter) is a relative – he is by a Northern Dancer line sire and inbred to the War Admiral horse Relic – the West Australian male line. Another member of the immediate family is Crozier, winner of WATC Champagne Stakes – by Godswalk, a sire who is inbred to the West Australian male line stallion Display. We can see how the pattern for likely success with this family emerges.
Even though the dam of Lot 91, Broglio, only won over 1250m and her dam only over a 1100m – and third dam won a Slipper – and there is clearly high class speed in the family – I suspect this filly will throw more to the stamina influences in her pedigree – at her best over a mile and further. However she should hopefully have inherited some of that good speed and the sex balances to both Nijinsky and the mare Flaming Page should assist that cause.

If I was going to this sale as a buyer this filly would be right up in the top echelon of my “must inspect” list. If she was a decent type and sound I personally would buy her as a breeding prospect alone. But there is plenty in her pedigree to say that she is also a promising racing prospect. Be sure to check her out.

A potential staying filly...

Heading into the sale I was determined to find a potential staying filly capable of winning an Oaks or Derby and am pleased to say I was able to buy the horse I wanted.This filly is from the last crop of local sire Dr Johnson who from 5 crops of raced horses has thrown 10 stakeswinners including Dr John, Westerly Breeze, Mafeking and Loml. His stake winners to runners ratio of over 5% is very good.

She is, like a lot of Dr Johnson’s, on the small side but is well built, proportional and should mature into a nice racehorse. I used the services of Ascot Bloodstock and trainer Brett Pope in selecting this horse. There comments were as follows –

“She is a nice filly with no obvious faults. She was the best yearling that we inspected at Namerik thoroughbreds.

Dr Johnson didn’t have the best selection of broodmares to service in his career and as such a lot of the produce are ordinary however this filly looks amongst the best. She is a nice type who would make an excellent racing prospect with residual value as a broodmare later.”Dr Johnson won 4 races in just a short 9 race career in Ireland all of them over 2000m or more and a 2nd place in the Group 1 Irish Derby 2400m. His bloodlines carry a strong stamina influence which was extremely evident with Westerly Breeze and Dr Bella filling minor positions in the 2008 Perth Cup. Dr Johnson does not throw many 2yo runners and looking at this filly it is not expected she will race as a 2yo, we are hoping however she will develop strongly later in her career especially when getting out to a middle distance or further.

Her dam line compliments this stamina influence with a nice injection of speed which can be seen in the detailed pedigree report compiled by Pedigree analyst Kat Webster who works for Ascot Bloodstock at the end of this document.

I have had her X-ray checked and also scoped to ensure we are buying a sound horse.

I have selected Brett Pope to train her. Brett is based at Pinjarra with a small team of around 20 horses which is rapidly expanding. Recent city winner Solidwickedcruel is his best horse. Brett is a young guy with plenty of ambition who has been involved with horses all his life despite having only had a trainer’s license since 2007. Brett helped pick out this filly and has shown a commitment to this horse in taking a 10% share for himself. He does all his own breaking in and track work and gives each horse personlised care which is one of the main reasons I picked him as the trainer. He is also very straight forward with his owners and a good communicator.

This filly is also Westspeed eligible and will be paid up for meaning she will race for bonuses from $1,500 up to $15,000 per win. This bonus prize money applies to the winner of any 2yo and 3yo races over $6,000 stake money (excluding group and listed) plus 3yo’s in All Aged Maiden events. The Westspeed Stayer’s Incentive also applies to any 3yo and 4yo winners of any TAB covered event over 1800m or more. Basically this scheme means that should she win a Saturday class race under any of the above conditions it will be worth $47,500 in prize money, ($32,500 + $15,000 bonus).

The filly will racing in the Perth Turf Talk racing colors of predominately orange and black (see photo). Once I have sold all the shares I will get everyone to submit two names each and we can have a vote to name her. She has already been floated down to her agistment paddock in Dardanup.
Aaron Delaporte