RED JOHN MEMORIAL SILENT AUCTION

1Nov

As part of the Red John Memorial Fund, the RJ Committee have introduced a silent auction on Facebook.
Bids are to be sent by Private Message on Facebook to Alan Greenhorn by Midnight Friday 4th November 2016. The highest bid received is the winner! All monies go straight into the RJM Fund.
On offer are a variety of Stallion Services (fee only) and a Yearling break-in from A list trainers (NEW owners only who have not had a horse broken/trained previously by the trainer).

Stallion Auction:

KIKIKOLT
With two Hall of Famers in his immediate pedigree; his sire, Western Hanover, and his dam’s full brother, Camluck.
In only two racing seasons he had 12 wins and amassed more than £30,000 in earnings.
Career highlights include:
BHRC National Pacing Derby, Little Welsh Dragon, Ceredigion High Grade Final, S4C Crock of Gold
From his short career as a stallion so far he has produced top class stakes horses and also a Free For Aller. Notable progeny include:
BATH LANE (winner of €7,000 FFA at VDM weekend 2015)
Meadowbranch Ash (winner of York’s Stars of the Future 2YO Colts)
PRESIDENT (multiple race winner in Ireland in 2015)
SHESGOTANATTITUDE (Irish Sire Stakes, Breeders Crown & Sire Stakes 3YO Filly winner 2015)
MEADOWBRANCH QUEEN (Sire Stakes 2YO Filly winner)
KICKASS KATIE (Sire Stakes 4YO Mare winner & sub-2 minute mare at Tir Prince)
Whether it’s a stakes horse, a solid handicapper or a Free For Aller you’re after, then Kikikolt produces them all.
Thanks to Meadowbranch Stud.

FORAFEWDOLLARSMORE
At 3, winner of heat and final of the York 3YO Championship (completing both races in under 2 minutes on successive days), BHRC National Pacing Derby (current mile and a half record holder at York – 3.03.6) Scottish 3YO Grass Championship at Musselburgh Racecourse.
Winner of The Famous Musselburgh Pace, FFA @ Wolverhampton and heat and final of the 2010 Crock of Gold (his heat winning time of 1.56.2 remains the track record at Tir Prince to this day), as well as numerous FFAs.
Graham Rees, who has documented Dollar’s career from beginning to end, states:
“Besides his character and personality he has shown power, strength and determination wherever he has raced and his progeny will undoubtedly inherit all these fine qualities and just like their sire, be regular visitors to the winner’s enclosures in the UK and Ireland”.
His breeding is flawless; there is the modernisation of the Western Hanover sireline through The Panderosa and also through the damline with Artsplace following on from Abercrombie.
Thanks to Walter & Carmel Stewart.

TOTAL TRUTH
This royally bred son of Jenna’s Beach Boy is the richest Standardbred to stand in Ireland & the UK, with career earnings of $2,022,433, the only stallion to stand in the UK & Ireland to have won over £2 million, as well as boasting a race record of 1:48.3.
A proven competitor, wins include Smullin Memorial, Niatross & Elimination at the Kentucky Sire Stakes at Lexington. Named Three-Year-Old Pacing Colt of the Year & Pacer of the Year in 2006, in 2008 Total Truth was sold at Tattersalls for $900,000 – the highest price recorded for a male pacer!
Thanks to Newtown Stud.

DOONBEG
Porterstown Stud’s O’Brien Award Winner and The British & World Record Holder – 1.53.7
North America’s 1:49.3 horse continued his success in the UK. Multiple FFA winner and creating a new British & World Record.
Sire of PORTERSTOWN CHRIS (1.57.5 at Tir Prince and Crock of Gold 2016 finalist) & JOHN BARLEY
(BHRC 3yo National Derby Winner), MELDOON (2.02 at Tir Prince tailing 10 yards), TRIPLICATE (runner up to Jessies Conquest in the Little Welsh Dragoness 2016).
His offspring continue to impress on the track with each new season.
Thanks to Porterstown Stud.

FORECLOSURE N
1.48.4 Rocknroll Hanover x Pleasing Package A (Fake Left)
Winner of $806,000; a winner five times as a two year old, including victories in the New Jersey Sire Stakes Championship – where he paced Freehold Raceway’s half mile track in 1.54.3h – and his Breeders Crown elimination where he set his freshman mark of 1.52.1f at Pocono Downs.
At 3, he set a personal best of 1.49.2f and competed with the best of his generation. He made the final of the Meadowlands Pace and the $1.5million North America Cup, in which he drew post position 10 and paced his last 3/4 mile in 1.20 flat to be a fast-finishing 4th.
As an older horse Foreclosure N was a six-time winner, including an amazing victory in his last race in the American National at Balmoral Park. Facing foes such as Foiled Again, Golden Receiver, Aracache Hanover, he cut out fractions of 26.2, 53.0 and 1.19.0 before winning by 6 1/2 open lengths in a career-best 1.48.4.
He has had a very good start as a sire with his first crop in America with numerous 2YO winners.
By the great Rocknroll Hanover, one of harness racing’s modern day legends, out of the Australian-bred mare Pleasing Package A, who had a great race record of 1.50.2 ($324,710), Foreclosure N offers the innovative combination of Northern and Southern hemisphere bloodlines. His pedigree boasts the speed from North America and the stamina and durability from Australia, which makes him an exciting prospect for British and Irish breeders.
Thanks to Oakwood Stud.

YANKEE LARIAT
Winner of over $480,000, with 15 lifetime wins. At 3, winner of a division of the Tattersalls at The Red Mile, beating Little Brown Jug winner Timesareachanging.
Sire of 2013 Vincent Delaney Memorial winner Camden Tino; Breeders Crown Fillies 3YO and 4YO Champion Camden Carley; and other notable racehorses Camden Callen, Camden Jimmy, Camden Corleone, Camden Castellano, Camden Cotroni, Camden Jody and the up and coming Greentree Freegift, winners of numerous races across the UK and Ireland.
Yankee Lariat was a $350,000 yearling purchase at Harrisburg sales. A son of Western Hanover, one of the legends of Standardbred breeding, and out of the producing Presidential Ball mare, Lush Limbaugh. His dam won $212,000 and has also produced the 1.49 3YO 3/4 brother to Yankee Lariat, Word Power.
Thanks to Camden Stud.

ROGUE HALL
Winner of over $188,000; at 3, winner of an elimination of the North America Cup, race timed in 1.50.3.
Rogue Hall’s first crop hit the track in 2010 and what a start it was; Frisco Havago, winner of the Breeders Crown 2YO & 3YO colts and current track record holder at Corbiewood for 2YOs, the Junior Welsh Dragon, Scottish 2YO Futurity at Musselburgh, BHRC National Pacing Futurity and the Sire Stakes 2YO & 3YO Colts; Littlemill Rogue, winner of the Little Welsh Dragon, Corbiewood 3YO Derby and Senior Welsh Dragon, track record holder at Corbiewood for 3YOs – both of whose lifetime marks are sub-1.59.
Following on from his early success, he has produced:
- Coalford JD, multiple race winner, including heat and final at Hellifield.
- Coalford Silk, a winner at three of the major festivals in 2014 (Aberystwyth, Musselburgh & Tregaron), also heat winner and runner up in The Famous Musselburgh Pace 2016
- Coalford Tetrick, one of 2014′s top 2YOs, 2015’s top 3YOs and 4YO record holder at Portmarnock (August 2016)
By Cambest who hails from the sire of sires, Cam Fella. His damline immediately features legends Abercrombie and Bret Hanover, which makes it easy to understand why Rogue Hall is a successful sire himself.
Thanks to Coalford Stud.

ARMBRO DEUCE
Both Armbro Deuce’s sire and dam are World Champion performers.
Winner of the $600,000 Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs, equalling the World Record of 1.50.2 on a half mile track. Also the record holder for the fastest first quarter in the Little Brown Jug.
As a stallion, he has produced numerous winners in Canada and North America, as well as the British 2YO record holder, STAMP HILL, winner of £22,773 and 15 races from 37 lifetime starts. Stamp Hill has only ever competed at the highest level, from 2YO Classics to Free For Alls. His victories include all three Dragon races in the Little Welsh Dragon Series, York and Tir Prince 3YO Championships, York 4YO Championship in 1.57.8 and the Wolverhampton leg of the Battle of the Big Guns FFA Series in 2015.
Thanks to Susan Young.

ROCKEFELLER MENTOR
Bred at Perretti Farms, New Jersey, this son of Rocknroll Hanover won in 1.58.3 on a half mile track as a 2YO.
His sire is regarded one of the modern day greats, being the first 2YO to pace in under 1.50. Rocknroll Hanover was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2012 and banked more than $2.7 million in his racing career, winning the two most prestigious races for 2 and 3 year olds in the sport: the Metro Pace for 2YOs and the North America Cup for 3YOs. He then became one of North America’s most prolific sires before passing away in 2013. He has produced numerous millionaires including Rocknroll Heaven, Put On A Show, A Rocknroll Dance, Rocklamation, Pet Rock and I Luv The Nitelife.
His dam, Because I Said So, is a full sister to the dam of Lost For Words (p,2,1.50.4, p, 3, 1.49.3 $936,983), runner-up by a nose in the 2015 Little Brown Jug to Wiggleit Jiggleit. Because I Said So is the dam of Orders, who was a champion 3YO filly in the UK. She is the dam of Million Dollar Man, former British 2YO record holder and Ontop Shouder Cuda, top class racehorse and runner-up in the Welsh Classic at Tregaron in 2016.
Rockefeller Mentor is a solid son of Rocknroll Hanover standing at over 16hh with a modern pedigree.
Thanks to Alf Swinbank.

MATADOR HALL
Winner of 15 races and £28,000 in the UK. Winner of the Triple Crown of the Dragon Series (Junior Welsh Dragon, Little Welsh Dragon & Senior Welsh Dragon), Scottish 4YO Championship at Musselburgh and the Billy Williams FFA in 1.57.6 at Tir Prince.
His sire, Blissfull Hall (half-brother to Hasty Hall) won the 1999 Pacing Triple Crown (Little Brown Jug, The Cane Pace & The Messenger Stakes), with a record of 1.49.2 and winnings of over $1.4 million.
His dam, Matts Sunshine, has produced 7 horses to win in 1.53 or faster, and her offspring have accrued winnings of over $3 million (11 foals). Her two most prolific sons are Digital Z Tam (p, 2, 1.52.2, p, 3, 1.49.4) and Monsoon Hall (p, 2, 1.53.2, p, 3, 1.51, p, 4, 1.50.4). Also the dam of Mambo Hall (p, 2, 1.52.2) who is the dam of Baby Rosa (BHRC 3YO Filly of the Year 2012).
From a family blessed with an abundance of early speed, Mattador Hall has all the credentials to become a very good sire. He will stand his first season at stud in 2017.
Thanks to Shane & Claire Fletcher.

Trainer Yearling Break-In Service:

SALLY TEEBOON
Sally Teeboon is one of the country’s top trainers whether it’s stakes horses, handicappers or Free For Allers. In 2015 she trained the winner of the Vincent Delaney Memorial Final, Miraculous, who went on to become the BHRC 2YO Colt of the Year. He continued his reign in his age category at 3, setting his lifetime mark on UK soil of 1.56.9 at Tir Prince. A winner of 16 of his 19 starts, he has amassed earnings of over £47,000 to date. In recent years, she has trained two horses to make the Crock of Gold Final (2015), Ayr Majesty and Ayr Regal, winners of over £54,000 combined.

PATRICK KANE JNR
Sally is also closely connected to driver Patrick Kane Jnr, who has a winning partnership with Miraculous. He too has had much success as a trainer, with horses such as Cams Best, Southlands Art, Denton Jonjo, Super Neill, The Irish Harrier, Coalford Western, winner of the Hurricane Pace at Musselburgh (now the Red John Memorial Hurricane Pace) and Maitha Buachaill, heat and final winner of the Strata Florida Handicap at Tregaron. He is also familiar with the training of trotters, having trained and driven the new record holder over 1.25 miles at Portmarnock, Twist Du Layon on Sunday 23rd October.

TERESA HAYTHORNTHWAITE
With the Haythornthwaite family you’ll be getting 4 for the price of 1! Teresa Haythornthwaite is the training force behind this season’s successful horses: Sports Trick (heat and final winner of the Appleby Spring Sunday Final and The Famous Musselburgh Pace and Senior Welsh Dragon winner), Party At The Spa (winner of the Ceredigion 3YOs and Bells Field 3YO Championship), Brywinsmagicpotion (winner of the Musselburgh FFA and a heat of the Crock of Gold) and Porcelain Seelster (SHRC 3YO Fillies Champion and heat and final winner at Corbiewood Murdock Weekend). Alan, James and Richard have shared the successes between them, with the latter also steering Tyrion Hanover to victory in the Vincent Delaney Memorial Final this year for John & Samboy Howard.

Thanks to Sally, Patrick & the Haythornthwaite family for donating their services to a worthy cause.

REMEMBER Private Message your bid to Alan Greenhorn on Facebook by Midnight Friday 4th November 2016