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28 June 2009
Danehill sire descendant of Denise’s Joy firing
CONATUS, the Danehill sire from a the Rory’s Jester AJC Challenge Stakes winner Light Up The World, a descendant of the fabulous racemare and matriarch Denise’s Joy standing at Heather Pascoe’s Plaintree Farms stud, Cecil Plains, Toowoomba, is starting to shape up as a competent sire. This was underlined by money earning performances of three of his progeny on Saturday June 20, the first crop 3-year-olds Tuscon Rain and Miss Campbell and the debut 2-year-old Verballed.
22 June 2009
Dazzling debut from two fancy fillies
If you happened to be watching Saturday racing two weeks ago, you might have watched a fairly nondescript 2YO race in Newcastle where a Conatus filly with the memorable name of Olive Oyl ran a very impressive second, having almost been knocked off her feet in the shadows of the post by the winner who ran sharply into the fence.
2 June 2009
Gerry Harvey Conatus Winner's Phar Lap Connection
PHAR LAP, the gelding described in a review in 1930, the year of his greatest Australian triumphs, as an ordinary looking horse but a phenomenal racing machine, had two sisters who left lasting legacies, Fortune’s Wheel and Raphis. Fortune’s Wheel, is ancestress of a female Phar Lap, the recently deceased three times Australian Horse of the Year Sunline, and quite a few other good gallopers, but by far the strongest branch has been Raphis, the one that provided the Gerry Harvey (Baramul Stud, Widden Valley) bred and owned Conatus 3-year-old filly Miss Campbell, a runner in the Les Bridge stables who won a maiden at Canterbury last week.
4 February 2009
Conatus Hits The Ball Out Of The Park
It’s been a long wait, but we’ve never lost faith in the speed and brilliance of Conatus and the sheer potential of his progeny. It’s certainly one thing to tell breeders just how fast he was, how he carries all the major sources of speed and precocity in recent times in his first three sires (Danehill, Rory’s Jester, Bletchingly) and how he wraps them up with a double cross of Star Kingdom. It’s quite another to sit back and watch them run with all the customary speed and brilliance of their sire.
4 February 2009
Smart Winner for Conatus
BLACK TYPE could be within the scope of Gag Order, a first crop 3-year-old filly by Conatus, a son of Danehill and Light Up The World, a high class Rory’s Jester filly from a grandaughter of the famous matriarch Denise’s Joy.