Shoobees Place to stand in WA

The Artsplace horse Shoobees Place 1:49.2 ($787,271), who stood his first six seasons at stud in NSW, is a young harness racing sire already well on the way to proving a success with his first small crops racing.

He is now standing in Western Australia at Spurrs Stud, Wagin, of prominent breeder-owner Kevin Spurr, alongside multiple Group 1 winner Bonavista Bay.

His service fee is $2,000.

Actually, Shoobees Place has made an excellent start as a sire. In his first season he left 30 foals, and of these he had 18 to the races half way through their four-year-old season, and 11 were winners and three have been placed. Of 13 three-year-old starters, five were winners and three were placed, while his current crop of two-year-olds includes the highly promising filly Merrywood Lynn, a last start Penrith winner.

From his first crop he sired a top colt in Shoobee Doo 1:54.5 ($109,590), who won five of his first eight starts and was one of the star two-year-olds of his season, and a smart filly in My Mels Place (1:57.3).

Kathachar Shoobee (1:53.7), a double Menangle winner recently and runner-up in the $50,000 Breeders Challenge True Blue Final, Tsunami Charlie (1:55.3), Mister Armstrong and Shoobees Charm have been other NSW winners by Shoobees Place from his first crops.

Shoobees Place was a top racehorse himself, winning close to $800,000, and he took a record of 1:52 as a two-year-old and 1:49.4 at three.

On the score of blood Shoobees Place has something in his favour. His sire Artsplace (1:49.4) was a champion with stake earnings of $3,085,083 and has been one of America’s top sires and grandsires for some time. He figures as the sire of three of America’s greatest pacers in Art Major (1:48.8), Sportswriter (1:48.6) and Glowing Report (1:49.4).

Shoobeedobeedo 1:52.8 ($308,481), the multiple Stakes winning dam of Shoobees Place, was one of the many grand producing daughters of a champion sire in Jate Lobell (1:51.4), being out of Shoobeedoaday, by Life Sign from the broodmare gem Blue Horizon, by Meadow Skipper.

One of Blue Horizon’s sons, Panorama (1:53.4), was a 1:50 sire in America and exported to Australia he was a stud success in NSW, the million dollar winner Karloo Mick (1:54.2) being one of his gets. Blue Horizon was also the grand-dam of the champion colt pacer and sire Grinfromeartoear (1:50.2).

This is the family founded by Golden Miss which produced one of Australia’s leading sires and broodmare sires in Safely Kept (1:52.4).

Shoobees Place is an Abercrombie line horse – that which produced Art Major – from one of the world’s top families, and boasts four strong crosses of the blood of Meadow Skipper.

He should prove an ideal outcross to mares boasting Cam Fella, Direct Scooter and Western Hanover blood and others.

Peter Wharton