Sunday Silence showing on Sunday
By Brian Russell - 9 August 2005
Breeders will have the opportunity of inspecting next Sunday one of the most eye-catching young sires at stud in Queensland. He is the near black Sunday Knight and as his name suggests he is by one of the world’s most spectacular sires of recent years, the giant of Japan breeding Sunday Silence.
In Sunday Knight’s case he is one of the small number of horses bred to Australian time using Sunday Silence in Japan but foaled here at the Arrowfield Stud.
Sunday Knight did not race but he is proving popular with breeders from his base at Heather and David Pascoe’s exciting young stud operation Plaintree Farms along Cecil Plains Road near Toowoomba.
This stud, one which was launched in 2003, is throwing open its gates for visitors next Sunday morning with the highlight being the parade of its three stallions at 10.30 a.m. Two of these, Sunday Knight and Count Albrecht, a half-brother by one of the best Mr. Prospector sires, Geiger Counter, to Zabeel, were used for the first time in 2003, while the other, Conatus, a son of Danehill and the Rory’s Jester AJC Challenge Stakes winner Light Up The World, looked after 83 mares in his first season last year.
The three Plaintree Farms sires are standing on very affordable fees by arrangements with their owners. Conatus, a very smart Sydney performer, is owned by a syndicate headed by his very good supporter Gerry Harvey (Baramul Stud) and the other two are the property of Arrowfield.