Racing and trotting Rare Horizon at Willowbank Stud

Press, 1 July 1986, Page 38

Racing and trotting Rare Horizon at Willowbank Stud

Special correspondent Wellington The Eketahuna-based Willowbank Stud is branching out. For the first time in its 12-year history the stud will offer to breeders a stallion, Rare Horizon. Willowbank Stud, a 37 hectare property operated by Ted McLachlan, of Wellington, has built up a good record for producing handy-priced yearlings at the National Sale, but now it is taking the chance to stand the Irish-bred stallion Rare Horizon (RarityPanaview). Mr McLachlan rates him as a most attractive individual which from four races as a threein Ireland, won over a mile and was

placed second in the Royal Ulster Derby. Injury prevented him from racing further.

Rare Horizon has been at Willowbank for two months. He is owned by a group of South Islanders and will stand at a fee of $2500.

Rarity, by Hethersett, twice won the Curragh Desmond Stakes and the Ballymoss Stakes. He is the sire of 19 stakes' winners, including One Thousand Guineas winner, One In A Million. To New Zealanders his best known son is Icelandic, which stands at Evergreen Lodge in Matamata. Icelandic’s two crops have produced Hot Ice, Snowdrift, Ice Flake and Kingston Lane. Panaview (Panaslipper-

April View) won two races.

Rare Horizon comes from a top winning female line. He is a halfbrother to four stakes winners, including three group one winners. Panaview left Front Row, which won the Irish One Thousand Guineas, ran second in the Royal Ascot Coronation Cup and third in the One Thousand Guineas.

Sires from this family have also proved successful. They include Northern View, Silent Spring, Czaravich, now in the United States, and Long Row, who is at stud in New Zealand at Mapperley Stud in Matamata, and is the sire of Getting Closer, a recent big winn6fr in Australia.