Aldebaran Park quinella!

Aldebaran Park produced the quinella pair, Keayang Ignite and Aldebaran Knox, in a heat of the Aldebaran Park Vicbred Platinum Home Grown Classic for harness racing three-year-old colts and geldings at Tabcorp Park Melton.

A fortnight later Keayang Ignite led throughout in the Group 1 $50,000 Final, winning by 17 metres in a 1:59.6 rate for 1720 metres with the last 800 in 57.5 and the final 400 in a stunning 27.9.

A $15,000 buy at the 2018 Australasian Premier Trotting Sale for the Levarg Racing Group, the colt has banked $37,980 from four wins in as many starts.

Aldebaran Park is offering a half-brother Keayang Ignite by exciting first crop sire Aldebaran Eagle as Lot 268 at the APTS sale at Oaklands Junction on Sunday, February 2.

Aldebaran Eagle

17^th Group success

Tornado Valley NZ, Skyvalley’s most outstanding son and the reigning Trotter of the Year, grabbed his 17^th Group success when he won the Group 3 Aldebaran Park Bruce Skeggs Memorial Trotters Cup at Cranbourne for the second time. The gelding has now won 31 races.

My Skypocket and Black Valley, both members of Skyvalley first crop, became his sire’s ninth and 10^th $100,000 earners when they won at Melton and Albion Park respectively.

Skyvalley's bonny daughter Fear Not, who was bred by Aldebaran Park, notched win No.7 at Ballarat, coming off a 30 metre handicap to send her stake tally over the $140,000 mark.

With six crops racing, Skyvalley has left 55 individual winners from 85 starters in Australia – a 65 percent strike rate – and they have amassed over $3 million in stakes, an average of $35,000 per starter.

Ten have earned in excess of $100,000 and 24 have banked over $50,000.

Skyvalley

Cup triumph

Godofthunder, a gelding by frozen semen sire Yield Boko, won for the sixth time in the Trotters Cup at Launceston, while Aldebaran Bonny, a five-year-old gelding part-owned by Aldebaran Park scored his second win at Cambridge Raceway, New Zealand.

New arrivals

New foalings at Aldebaran Park:

Colt: Endsino – Aldebaran Eagle

Colt: Sundonna – Aldebaran Eagle

By Peter Wharton