The new membership year starts 1 September each year. To keep up with whats happening with current information, NEWSLETTERS and the Australasian Standardbred Stallion Guide, make sure you are a current WASBA MEMBER!! .
If you have a filly or mare or are interested in breeding, join WASBA. Go to our Membership Page for further information or for the online application form. Meetings are generally monthly on the last Wednesday of the month – member input is welcome!.
THE RACING SEASON is now a calendar year – your horse will retain its current racing age until 1 January 2025 and will be handicapped and programmed accordingly. This means you will have an extra 4 months (September to December) of racing your 2yo as a 2yo, and your 3yo as a 3yo
OF HIGH IMPORTANCE
(October 2024) Coming into summer in Western Australia it is critical that you are prepared in the event of fire on or around your property. RWWA has prepared a bushfire emergency information kit, including key contacts and resources to assist in a bushfire crisis, as well as information for planning and returning to your property if you need to evacuate . Click here for the information kit.
UPCOMING EVENTS – Watch out for these!
- the $100,000 Norms Daughter Classic (Fillies and Mares) is on 8 November
- the rescheduled $30,000 2YO Westsired 2YO Fillies Classic is on 9 November at Bunbury.
- Also on 9 November at Bunbury is the WASBA $14,000 Bob Humphries Memorial for Westbred Mares
- The $30,000 WA Country Derby is on 11 November at Pinjarra
- The feature mares race in WA, the Group 1 $150,000 Mares Classic, is on 22 November
- Numerous other feature races across most clubs at all stakes levels – click here for end July 2024 to June 2025 WA feature race calendar
- The new handicapping system will be introduced in WA from 1 January 2025.
RETIRING YOUR HORSE
(September 2024) Thinking of rehoming your standardbred in WA? Not quite sure what the rules are? RWWA have produced a retirement booklet to guide you with the process. The booklet includes a handy flowchart to assist with navigating the rules. Click here or the image on the left to access the booklet.
WASBA provides sponsorship to assist reputable rehomers, as well as sponsoring Off The Track events run by SPPHAWA, as well as subsidies for membership. SPPHAWA have produced a very useful “Track to Hack Show Guide” to assist owners with maintaining and presenting their horse.
THINGS TO NOTE
- The WA HWOE Handicapping system will be replaced by the National Rating System from 1 January 2025. We will update you as soon as we are made award of any information that would assist you in planning for your racing. we encourage you to continue to put forward any issues or concerns – they cannot be addressed without your input.
- Changes to the rule on free returns -free returns are now added to the 150 Australian stallion cap (with conditions) commencing with mares served in the 2023 season.
- The Westbred Bonus improvements include a first time starter bonus of $500 for the first career start (if in WA) for your Westbred foal. That’s a minimum payment of $650 on your Westbred foal’s first lifetime start – regardless of placing. Over $3.6 million in bonuses were paid in 2023.
- Westbred Bonuses – click here for the new levels that apply to Westbred foals born from the 2020 season onwards.
- Westbred progeny now have $215,000 2YO, $100,000 3YO and $100,000 4YO feature races split by sex! Heats for the 2YO and 3YO Classics will be run in August with a WA raceday in September for the four Finals
- Contact WASBA for any assistance with your breeding plans, or if you are seeking a mare to lease for the season
- Did you win a $500 service fee voucher for this season from WASBA? Dont forget to claim – contact us info@wasba.com.au if you are unsure what to do.
SPECIAL BONUS DRAW!
(30 September 2024) If you were a WASBA member at 31 August 2024 and paid your membership fee for the season commencing 1 Sept 2024 before 30 September 2024, and purchased a ticket in the WASBA 2024 Raffle or submitted a Tender in the 2024 WASBA Tender, you were eligible for one of 10 $500 stallion service fee vouchers for use in the 2024 stud season at studs that supported WASBA with their 2024 Raffle or Tender. Congratulations to the breeders listed, who won one of the available vouchers.
WASBA 2024 STALLION TENDER
(30 September 2024) The 2024 WASBA Stallion Tender has closed. We thank all breeders who submitted a Tender. The remaining stallion is available at 80% of the advertised service fee. Contact WASBA info@wasba.com.au if still deciding on your preferred stallion.
Subsequent to the Stallion Tender, we have drawn the lucky recipients of the $500 Service fee vouchers, rewarding members for their support of WASBA in the Stallion Raffle and Stallion Tender. See the picture above for the names of the lucky winners.
Vouchers can be used on stallions standing at Allwood Stud WA, Alabar Victoria, Llowalong Farms Vic, Tourello Standardbreds, Westbred Pacing WA,Woodlands Stud NZ as well as for services by Advance Attack NZ (Shanks Standardbreds WA), Foreclosure NZ (Frozen semen KTC Bloodstock WA) and Shockwave (Bells Pacing Stable WA).
WASBA 2024 STALLION SERVICE RAFFLE RESULTS
(01 Sep 2024) The Raffle was drawn on Friday 30 August at Gloucester Park following the running of the $50,000 Binshaw Classic.
The raffle was drawn by Gloucester Park’s Barry McKenna.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed by purchasing a ticket. The raffle is a great way to start the breeding season and we sincerely appreciate everyone’s support for the raffle and WASBA. The winner was:
- First Prize – Gordon and Carol Day (ticket number 171)
Subsequent to the Raffle, two $1,000 stallion service voucher prizes were drawn from ticket holders who were WASBA members at close of raffle. The winners of the vouchers, for use on service fees in the 2024 season at WASBA supported studs were:
- ticket 106 Joe Schaper.
- ticket 208 Chris and Deb Lewis.
$500 stallion service fee vouchers, for members who participated in either the raffle or Stallion Tender, have been drawn from 2023/24 members who paid 2024/25 membership (due 1 September 2024) by 30 September 2024.
WA 2025 YEARLING SALE CLASSICS
The 2024 WA APG Sale was run in March 2024. Some now 2yos may remain available from vendors and shares may still be available from purchasers. If you would like to be involved but were not successful at the Sale, contact one of the following vendors to see if any of their stock remain available. Discuss an inspection with them. Remember that $700,000 earners Wonderful To Fly and Lavra Joe were both passed-in yearlings and obtained later from vendors. The vendors with passed in yearlings (check their Sales Classic Eligibility before organising your purchase) and other yearlings are as follows:
- Allwood Stud Farm 0421 331 586
- Copper Lodge (Mike Howie) 0411 248 765
- Karnup Racing (Colleen Lindsay) 0413 514 842
- KTC Bloodstock (Kody or Kevin Charles) 0413 669 474
- Seahorse Racing (Terry Ferguson) 0418 931 647
- Spurrs Stud (Kevin Spurr) 0429 104 145
- Robert Simmonds 0418 928 562
- Westbred Pacing 0408 370 776
You may also be able to contact purchasers by checking the APG Sales results page here
SPONSORING RACES – REWARDING OWNERS
We want our breeders and owners of our WA bred horses and mares to succeed and we put our money (with the gracious support of our sponsors) right where it can be counted.
(Nov 2023) WASBA BOB HUMPHRIES MEMORIAL – a $14,000 race to honour the memory of one of our great contributors – Bob Humphries, who was a leading owner and breeder in New South Wales before venturing west in 1981, moving his entire racing and breeding operation, including 116 horses, on a special train across the Nullabor to a new stud farm at Northcliffe. From here he spent the next 14 years promoting and supporting breeding in Western Australia under the name of Trunkey Standardbreds, which became so prominent in breeding and on the racetrack in WA.
Bob died in 2010, but his legacy remains in the record books as the breeder of Derby winners Trunkey Sting and Trunkey Maserati, Oaks winner Ferrari Trunkey, and two Fremantle Cup winners in Trunkey Westerner and Trunkey Sting, He also bred a number of classic winning 2 and 3yos including Trunkey Jaguar, Butterfly Trunkey, Taipan Trunkey, Trunkey Gold and Trunkey Limousine. Trunkey Gold was the dam of Australian 2yo Pacer of the Year Mazzini Magic, and Butterfly Trunkey was the dam of dual Australian Aged Mare of the Year Tailamade Lombo.
Run in November at Bunbury our latest event saw our first dual winner!
She was second favourite last year when she won after starting from barrier 1, but in 2023 it was massive odds of 70/1. Fortunately horses cant read. Great drive by trainer driver Maddy Young to time her move perfectly from one out four back at the bell, follow a nice move, avoid tiring leaders and charge home for the win.
Bred by KTC Bloodstock and Kevin Charles, her dam Generally Outspoken (Mach Three CA) 1:59.4 won nearly $70,000 from 8 wins including the Group 3 2YO Fillies Gold Bracelet. Generally Outspoken has produced 3 winners from her 3 foals of racing age, including Whataretheodds (Betting Line USA) 1:55.5 $87,840 and promising 2YO winner Marbeechsam. Generally Outspoken is a full sister to Machs Gold 1:54.3 $131,200 and a half sister to Missinmemate 1:54.5 $104,096 and champion mare Spellbound (Art Major USA) 1:50.1 $382,155 who was originally selected for the inaugural NZ slot race, the $900,000 The Race by Grins but was injured before she could take her place. Nice family.
SPECIAL BONUS DRAW! If you were a WASBA member at 31 August 2023 and paid your membership fee for the season commencing 1 Sept 2023 before 30 September 2023, and purchased a ticket in the WASBA 2023 Raffle or submitted a Tender in the 2023 WASBA Tender, you were eligible for 10 special $500 stallion service fee voucher draws, vouchers for use in the 2023 stud season at studs that supported WASBA with their 2023 Raffle or Tender. Congratulations to the breeders who won one of the available vouchers.
FEATURE JUVENILE RACES
As a result of the extension of the racing season, most of the Western Australian juvenile feature races have been moved by RWWA to the latter part of the year. If you have any suggestions about the placement of some feature races to provide a better outcome for you and your horse, or to ensure better racing opportunities for you, please forward to info@wasba.com.au
YES YES YES ITS A MARE!
(2 Sep 2023) Well what a delightful surprise to those that created the “stallion race”. An Australian bred mare by a US sire from a New Zealand bred dam, and the only mare in the race, is the inaugural winner of The Eureka. Congratulations to owner breeder Tyson Linke for breeding the South Australian mare Encipher, and to Aaron Bain Racing and Summit Bloodstock for having the courage to select a mare as their runner, something we struggle to get adminstrators to accept in premium races across Australia.
Encipher was a deserving winner, settling one out two back in running before running down breeze horse Leap To Fame, whose efforts were also exceptional, in the straight to win by 1.7m in 1:51.8 over the 2400m, final qtrs in 28.1, 26.5 and 27.1.
Encipher is from the maternal line of imported US mare Estalla Amos and while her dam Our Cavort NZ (Falcon Seelster USA) was no champion on the track she is a half sister to a 1:51.1 winner in the US and her granddam is a half sister to Percy The Punter 1:56.4 $332,037. When you look further, horses of the calibre of Seel N Print (Falcon Seelster USA) 1:50.2 $676,568, The Falcon Strike (Falcon Seelster) 1:54.5 $1,224,094 and many other top flight horses are visible. This is a predominantly NZ family mixed with US blood – we rely on the mixing of all the best blood to create our top horses and future broodmares.
BUSY BUSY BUSY TIME OF YEAR
(30 Aug 2023) With the breeding season just arrived it has been a very busy time for WASBA in the lead up. In late June we presented our trophy, rug and garland on track to Shane Young (bottom right) and some of the excited connections of Westsired mare Wonderful To Fly (Fly Like An Eagle) for her win in the Group 3 $50,000 Kerry Clarke Mares. More presentations followed in the next two weeks, this time the sashes and rosettes for the Westsired Classic winners Chief Copy – bottom middle – and I Cross My Heart (both by the deceased My Hard Copy NZ),and Skylord (Fly Like An Eagle) – top left – Fly To Fame (by Allwood Stud owned Follow The Stars) – bottom left.
Next up in mid July was the opening of our super raffle, with the winner drawn 18 August – congratulations to the very lucky Liam O’Connor (pictured above, top right) who won a service to world best Bettors Delight USA, with special thanks to Woodlands Stud for providing the exceptional raffle prize. Three lucky WASBA members also received $1,000 in stallion service vouchers to use this breeding season.
In between was the presentation of the trophy to the winning connections (pictured above, bottom middle) of Cyclone Charlotte NZ (by the aforementioned Bettors Delight USA) after winning the $30,000 WASBA 4YO/5YO Pace. It is always rewarding to be there for these wins as they promise so much for the future of our breeding heritage. Off to Northam on 19th August for one of the regular WASBA Westbred mare’s races, the $14,000 WASBA/Allwood Stud Virgil Queen Celebration Pace, won by “local” trainer Ian Foley’s Sweet Lou USA mare Dame Valour, for a bunch of very happy owners (pictured above, top middle) who were on course for the win and the presentation of the rug, trophy and garland. WASBA supplements the stakes for this and the similar races to ensure the mares get a suitable reward.
The $30,000 Country Oaks on 30 August at Bunbury, won by Barry Howlett’s Flametree (Huntsville USA) rounds out this “giving and receiving” period except for the WASBA Stallion Tender, which offered a great line up of stallions covering all the great sire lines and some super maternal lines and were provided by Alabar, Allwood Stud, Cobbitty Equine, KTC Bloodstock, Llowalong Farms, Shanks Standardbreds, Soho Standardbreds and Westbred Pacing.
AND, one last thing – anyone who was a WASBA member in the 2022/23 season and paid their membership before 30 September 2023 for the season starting 1 September 2023, and either purchased raffle tickets or participated in the Stallion Tender, went into a draw for 1 of 10 $500 stallion service fee vouchers to be used in the 2023 season on stallions standing at one of the studs that supported WASBA in the 2023 Stallion Raffle or Stallion Tender.
Of course, none of this could occur without the support of our members and our sponsors including the above studs and Woodlands Stud.
WASBA 2023 STALLION SERVICE RAFFLE RESULTS
(19 Aug 2023) The Raffle was drawn on Friday 18 August at Gloucester Park in between the $50,000 San Simeon and the $100,000 Diamond Classic for 2yo fillies.
The raffle was drawn by Gloucester Park Committee member and Vice President Gino Monaco.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed. WASBA is very appreciative of breeders who support the WASBA Stallion Service Raffle and the Studs who provide the prizes. The winner was:
- First Prize – Liam O’Connor (ticket number 196)
Subsequent to the Raffle, three $1,000 voucher stallion service voucher prizes were drawn from ticket holders who were WASBA members. The winners of the vouchers, for use on service fees in the 2023 season at WASBA supported studs were
- $1,000 Voucher Prize – Kody Charles (ticket number 121)
- $1,000 Voucher Prize – Shane Quadrio (ticket number 182)
- $1,000 Voucher Prize – Kevin Strahan and Gary McRae (ticket number 001)
We sincerely thank the Studs involved with our Raffle and (forthcoming) Stallion Tender for their generous contribution. Woodlands Stud provided our exciting Raffle prize this year, a service to Bettors Delight for the 2023 season. Congratulations to all our winners,
Ticket purchasers, as well as those who participate in the Stallion Tender who are also members at 30 September will be included in 10 $500 Stallion Service voucher draws for use in the 2023 season at studs that supported WASBA during the 2023 season. Contact WASBA for the list if unsure.
WASBA 2022 STALLION SERVICE RAFFLE RESULTS
(26 Aug 2022) The Raffle was drawn on Friday at Gloucester Park immediately after the exciting 2YO $100,000 Pearl Classic.
The raffle was drawn by Gloucester Park Committee member Gary Scott.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed. WASBA is very appreciative of breeders who support the WASBA Stallion Service Raffle and the Studs who provide the prizes. The winners were:
- First Prize – Mike Howie, WA (ticket number 060)
- Second Prize – Wayne Morrison, WA (ticket number 075)
- $1,000 Voucher Prize – Gary Newton, SA (ticket number 100)
- $1,000 Voucher Prize – Lynley Howlett, WA (ticket number 134)
- $1,000 Voucher Prize – Kerrie Hymers, Tas (ticket number 128)
We sincerely thank the Studs involved with our Raffle for their generous contribution. The Stud Farms who contributed to our Raffle this year were Alabar (Art Major USA), Northern Rivers/Llowalong Farms (Century Farroh Ca) and Allwood Stud (Fly Like An Eagle).
Money raised from the Stallion Raffle and our other initiatives supported by our sponsors results in WASBA being able to provide over $20,000 in stakes subsidies, breeding vouchers, awards, race winner rugs, trophies and garlands and rehoming support per season.
WASBA 2021 STALLION SERVICE RAFFLE RESULTS
(21 Aug 2021) The Raffle was drawn on Saturday at Northam before the running of the feature race for the night, the WASBA Allwood Stud Farm Virgil Queen Celebration Pace, brilliantly won by the up and coming Alta Cinderella (Alta Christiano). A brilliant 27.7 3rd quarter set up the win.
The raffle was drawn by Northam Committee member Helen Miller.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed. The winners were:
- First Prize – Peter Campbell, QLD (ticket number 048) selecting Sweet Lou USA
- Second Prize – Jim Currie, WA (ticket number 098)
- Third Prize – Barb King, WA (ticket number 122)
- Fourth Prize – Phil Costello, WA (ticket number 082)
WASBA 2020 STALLION SERVICE RAFFLE RESULTS
(16 Aug 2020) The Raffle was drawn on Friday after we witnessed another top class running, and the second running, of the $30,000 WASBA 4YO and 5YO Mares Pace, brilliantly won by Westsired 4yo mare My Prayer (Renaissance Man, who has just relocated to stand in NSW for the coming season but is still availabe in our Stallion Tender).
But back to the raffle. A big thank you to everyone who contributed. The winners were:
- First Prize – Zoe Ellis, WA (ticket number 157) selecting Poster Boy
- Second Prize – Colin Belton, WA (ticket number 072)
- Third Prize Shane Hawes, Tasmania (ticket number 141)
- Fourth Prize – Tim Blee, WA (ticket number 019)
WASBA 2019 STALLION SERVICE RAFFLE RESULTS
(16 August 2019) A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Raffle with First Prize a choice between a free service (service fee only) to Sweet Lou USA or Rock N Roll World USA. Second prize was a free service by the remaining stallion after the First Prize winner had made their choice. WASBA members who bought a ticket also were eligible for two further prizes, both $1.000 vouchers to be used towards any stallion available (at time of booking) at Allwood Stud or Woodlands Stud. All prizes were for use in the 2019/20 season. The winners were drawn on Friday 16 August at Gloucester Park, just after the presentation of the trophy for the $30,000 WASBA 4YO and 5YO Mares Pace. The winners were:
- First Prize – Barry Bottams from Mildura, Victoria – ticket number 45;
- Second Prize – Bianca Ashcroft from Collie, Western Australia – ticket number 1
- $1000 Voucher Prizes – Jim Currie Western Australia – ticket number 123, John Coffey Western Australia – ticket number 33.
FREE MARES, Mares for LEASE, or SALE?? If you have a mare available for sale or lease, or want a mare for breeding purposes, contact WASBA.
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CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Click here and contact any current committee member and discuss how you can help breeding in WA. The WASBA Committee meets monthly.
Our NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING will be Wednesday, 17 January 2023 at 6pm. We are currently holding our meetings by teleconference, you are welcome to join in as a guest. If you would like to raise any issues for discussion or comment regarding any aspect of the breeding industry, please contact us by:
Sending an email to info@wasba.com.au
Write to WASBA at PO Box 3237 East Perth WA 6892
Contact any committee member. Click here for a list of Committee members.
