Message from Hancox Racing

January, 2010

Thank you for your inquiry on the partnership being formed to race the 2YO bay GELDING by the GROUP ONE winning 2YO and super sire MOSSMAN.

MOSSMAN was a very talented race horse a top class 2YO who trained on to have an excellent 3YO career.

Initially retired to stud in Queensland he covered small books of mares in his first three seasons  resulting in only 79 live foals. In 2003 he had 77 foals but dropped back to 18 the following year before the results of his first progeny showed what an excellent sire he is. From Mossman's spring of 2005 he got 96 foals and this gelding comes from his 2006 coverings (born 2007) when he had his biggest book of mares and 117 live foals resulted.

Due to lack of patronage and small numbers early on he has only had 169 runners for 105 winnners (well over 60% winners to runners), FIVE stakes winners and 5 stakes placed horses, a stack of city winners and some excellent 2YO's including this season's STIRLING GROVE and AGISTER.

You can check him out on www.vinery.com.au

The gelding is out of JENNA by DEPUTY GOVERNOR. Although a non winner she has an excellent pedigree and of her two named foals has produced the handy SENNET racing in Hong Kong as Shatin Win Win.

This gelding was leggy and backward when presented at the Premier Sale. He appealed to us because he had enormous scope for improvement, good conformation and was an absolutely outstanding walker. He grew in stages but is now a lovely big horse who will continue to improve.  We paraded him at our recent Cranbourne Function Day and several trainers would have been happy to buy him from us on the day.

We had him gelded a couple of days after purchase so he could have the benefit of being out in large, shared paddocks without any risk of doing himself an injury.
He was laryngoscoped clear of any throat problems at the time of sale.
The gelding will be trained at Cranbourne by GREG EURELL. Greg is consistently one of the leading trainers in this state, his current headline horse is the 5 time Gr.1 winner APACHE CAT (BTC Doomben 10,000, MVRC Australia S., VRC Lightning S., VRC Cadbury Guineas etc), MIC MAC, MAJESTICAL, VATC Blue Diamond Prelude winner SHREWD RHYTHM (on sold the D Hayes stable has not won since), WAYNE'S GOLD, our own JUST LIKE EL and WAVELENGTH (TRC Strutt S.) plus the above average 5YO FIRE IN THE NIGHT, GO MISSY, HEY ROSIE etc.

Greg has very similar philosophies to ours no matter how well conformed and no matter how good (or bad) the pedigree the two things none of us can tell you about a racing prospect are WHAT IS IN ITS HEART and WILL ITS HEAD LET IT BE A RACE HORSE ?
Owning race horses often requires patience and fortitude but we will not waste your money, our current team of 45 horses has only one horse older than four  ROUGH NIGHT  (now having a successful jumping career).

I have been a licensed syndicator since 1989. We have just done a full rundown on every horse purchased by Hancox Bloodstock since that time.

We have syndicated 516 horses which are now 2Y0 and older.  Hancox Bloodstock has spent just over $5.1 million on purchasing horses(currently 22 unraced 2YO's and a further 10 unbroken 2YO's, plus 12 unraced 3YO's, ) and those horses have returned over $12.5 million.  There are now 253 individual winners of 894 races.
Statistics of course are out of date as soon as they have been done but Rod intends to update again shortly.

Most of our horses get to the races; of course some have no ability and others are discarded because they are not up to the required standard in Victoria or NSW but they have successful racing careers in other states for other connections.

Our stakes winners include the obscurely bred SWORD (12 wins including Gr 1 SAJC Goodwood H.), BUZZOFF (10 wins incl STC Lord Mayors Cup), STAR COSSACK (7 Moonee Valley Oaks, Stuart Crystal S.), KALARING (4  SAJC Rose Of Kingston S), MAKE A SCENE (10  Ballarat Cup), REGULATIONS (11 STC Starlight S,),  COLBRANAT (7  VRC Gibson Carmichael S), COURTLY QUALMS (9  VRC Auckland H.), plus handy  types like SUPER DANE, PURIST, REBEL WITH A CAUSE, BURNING CLAY,  TAYARRA, PENTIRELY etc

Our latest stakes winner is the Gr 2 AJC Sapphire Stakes and MRC Le Tan S. winner BELONG TO MANY ($20,000 y'lng over $440,00 in earnings, on sold for $525,00).

We have just finished another successful racing season with city winners like SALUTE THE STORM and JUST LIKE EL.  Promising types like Thwarted, Hula Dane, Shaville,Monzero, Regal Dawn etc. It is worth noting the $11,000 purchase PRIMA NOCTE ticked over $258,000 in earnings from her 8 wins, ROUGH NIGHT won ten, DESERT LAD (3 wins, a second and a third from 6 runs for Allan Denham), WAVELENGTH (earnings over $300,000 multiple city winner and Listed TRC Strutt S.). ,Mosseltov, Jet Kingdom,Paris Icon, Rigotune, Al Khafra, Nobelenus, Solar Spirit, Base Dancer, Scenic Affair, etc continue to race on well for other connections.
The above run down on our company does not include a couple of stars like the 1994 VATC Blue Diamond Stakes winner HURRICANE SKY or stakes winning 2YO's EGYPTIAN IBIS and PRIOR ENGAGEMENT, part of a package of ten horses with Contract Racing or indeed the dual Group 1 winning sprinter MOOKTA selected for Mark Riley.

Our aim is to give you the best possible chance of racing a winner at TAB level  by purchasing an athletic youngster who on percentages gives you a real chance of reaching the winner's circle.
If there is any further information you require or you wish to inspect the gelding he is about to be broken in /educated at Blue Mane, Lyndhurst please do not hesitate to telephone me on (03) 5274 9171.

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