Big offer for mare refused

Press, 5 August 1985, Page 37

Big offer for mare refused

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JEFF SCOTT

The Grice brothers, of Ashburton, repelled an offer of $lOO,OOO on behalf of a Christchurch bloodstock agent for their 12-year-old broodmare, Anna Pavlova (Armbro Del-Coo Doo), last week.

From only three foals to race, Anna Pavlova has left the cup class pacer, Derby (2:00.9, 24 starts for 11 wins, three placings and $48,155), Bahrein (five New Zealand wins and 12 placings for $15,000, before being exported to Australia) and last season’s 2:00 winning filly, Cuddle Me Doo (11 starts for four wins and three placings for $19,055), a record that could have been extended but for injury leading up to the major fillies races in the autumn.

“No, we’re quite happy to lease them out, in fact nearly all our foals are leased before they are born,” Mr Keith Grice said. The Grices did succumb, however, to selling Anna Pavlova’s half-sister by Scottish Hanover, Pamelene, the winner of two in a limited career and now the dam of Karayar

(p 3 1:59.4, US), to the same Christchurch-based bloodstock company. The Kerrytown horseman, Tim Brosnan, who met with good success last season with Cuddle Me Doo, which he has leased, has also arranged for the lease of a yearling brother to Derby (by El Patron), and halfbrother to Cuddle Me Doo, from the Grice brothers. Anna Pavlova is booked to Cuddle Me Doo’s sire, Noodlum, again this spring, while the grand producer, Coo Doo, which missed for the first time last year after leaving a record-breaking 18 consecutive foals, will visit the court of the former world champion racehorse, Adios Vic, the sire of 128 in 2:00, which is standing at Ashburton this year after standing the past seasons in Australia.

Kiss and Coo, four-year-old daughter of Nat Lobell, will become Coo Doo’s ninth winner from 11 foals to race if she makes a successful debut from Richard Brosnan’s Kerrytown team in the Kara Kara Pace at Washdyke today.