Hot after a significant win for On fire On March 19 at the Longines Golden Slipper Stakes (G1) at Rosehill Gardens, breeder and part owner Louis Mihalyka told ANZ Bloodstock News that five big studs in the Hunter Valley had thrown their hats. they entered the ring to stand on his now homeless stallion Rebel Dane on their list for the upcoming breeding season.
Mihalyka, who bred the Rebel Dane under his Laurel Oak banner and raced the double 1st group winner with yesterday’s Golden Slipper award-winning coach, Gary Portelli, is still basking in the excitement and do not believe in his Fireburn star’s feats after Saturday’s stunning success in Australia crowned the exhibitor minor.
“We’re absolutely euphoric,” Mihalyka said yesterday, after wrapping up a celebratory lunch with not-so-long relationships. “You enter the race as a living hope when you get the fourth favorite. The horse was clearly in good form… But when she came she went so fast, it was scary. To win the battle won for two and a half minutes, you just think, ‘what just happened? “.”
Following Fireburn’s win in Furphy Sweet Embrace Stakes (G2) at Randwick Racecourse on February 26, it was announced that Rebel Dane would be moving in from Glen Eden Stud, his Victorian home for the previous two seasons. , with the intention of placing the son of California Dane in the New South Wales ranching heartland of the Hunter Valley.
No deal has been made for the 12-year-old, events over the weekend have markedly increased his appeal to some of the Hunter Valley’s most famous equine operations.
“It couldn’t have worked better than we hoped to achieve,” Mihalyka said. “Funny, we’ve been in contact with five of the major operators in the Hunter Valley within the last 24 hours. We want to give the horse the best chance possible in terms of numbers, though. Glen Eden did a great job of bringing it to 50 last season and has worked incredibly hard to get there. A high-achieving student could easily go from 50 to 100.”
“Currently, no one has offered to buy shares of the horse, they are only offering to keep him in different transactions. And if there is a stallion who has faith in the horse to buy shares in the horse. breed, then that would suit the owner.”
The level of interest in Rebel Dane prompted his consortium of owners, which included Silverdale Farm’s Steve Grant and Kenny Lowe, to hire a representative for discussions among interested parties to act as a focal point in negotiations.
“Tomorrow morning, we will have an independent person, a well-known blood agent, appointed to handle requests and make all communications at arm’s length,” Mihalyka said. “There are five owners (in Rebel Dane) and two of them are active in promoting the stallion, so instead of individuals being contacted and transferring everything, we decided to make it official. customize it so that we have a person to go and coordinate and communicate, but we are absolutely delighted with the feedback that we have today.
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“Before the race, we had a bit of a joke with our friends in Newgate, as with Fireburn’s Sweet Embrace win, Rebel Dane leaped to Extreme Choice as the winners’ lead. in the group in Australia. It’s a small number, but we’re leading,” said Mihlayka. He has advanced to a higher level and his horses, if you see them racing, almost all of them run well, but if you look at the pedigree of the mares, you go’ how?’, because they’re humble to say the least.”
Of the 67 mares Rebel Dane received during its first two years of school, about half were sent by Rebel Dane-related Laurel Oak Bloodstock clients, who despite benefiting from no fees service, but took a big gamble placing many of their brood resources in an unproven and unaffiliated stallion.
As a result, the team did not send any mares to Rebel Dane during his years at Glen Eden, crops that produced only 14 ponies combined.
Of the seven ponies from his 2020 crop, none of which are up for auction this year, three — two fillings and one pony — were bred by Glen’s Sonia O’Gorman Eden Stud, while another from Umatilla Girl was bred by Elaine Rawiller, the mother of the jockey, Nash Rawiller.
The stallion has produced 4 fillings and 3 ponies in 2021.
“The owners didn’t send any mares in his third or fourth season. We supported him very well the first two years between owners, so when you see the number That amount of 30 mares, I think in the first year 15 was Mihalyka saying:
“We faced financial hardship with the mares they gave Rebel Dane, and we only had about 10 or 12 mares a year. We didn’t want to commit to too many Rebels. Danes, so we didn’t send mares because we had many and we wanted to see how it went.Unfortunately we didn’t send any mares but we did send them back. back there now and in the pony.”
A mare that Mihalyka and Laurel Oak sent to Rebel Dane in his sophomore year was Fireburn’s dam Mull Overa daughter of So you think who was singled out at the 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale for $22,000 with the express intention of being sent to Rebel Dane.
Mull Over returns to her 4th dam to win 3 awards in the US Shaking legs with her second dam being Danarani, winner of Flight Stakes (G1), of Danehill.
The result is a unique crossbreeding combination of two of Australia’s most successful imported stallions, the Danehill and More than ready .
Mihalyka recalls: “We were selling breeders and were looking for mares for Rebel Dane. “I personally feel that while inbreeding with Danehill leaves many question marks, the upper and lower 3×4 hybrid with Danehill has a good strike rate. Before the weekend it had only one group winner. 1 was Seabrook, but a lot of winners were in the group, and not many came in second.”
