Windshield Wiper in demand

Press, 12 June 1986, Page 30

Windshield Wiper in demand

The high demand for the American-bred stallion Windshield Wiper, which stands at Alan and Sandra Galloway’s Alabar Farms, Echuca, was emphasised when two services to him were auctioned recently in Melbourne. Both were secured for $7600 each by a Echuca studmaster, Jack Caldow. This figure only covers the service by Windshield Wiper. Another 20 per cent has to be added for insurance for a live foal guarantee, making each nomination worth $9120, well on the way towards three times his service fee of $3500 for the current season. Windshield Wiper, a top racehorse and successful sire in the United States where he has left more than 110 in 2min and about a dozen in better

than lmin 555, has made a big impact in Australia where his oldest progeny are two this season. So far he has sired II individual winners of 26 races, with three Victorian classics falling to them. Fragrance won the Youthful Stakes Final at Moonee Valley recently, while his progeny made a clean sweep of the Edgar Tatlow Memorial Stakes Series. Windshield Debbie won the $28,000 fillies’ section, while the $32,500 colts and geldings’ final went to Windshield Star. Windshield Wiper is owned by a syndicate which originally numbered 80. The only services available to outsiders occur when a shareholder chooses to offer his option for a particular season.