August Vicbred Wednesday Winner
Our Vicbred Wednesday Winner for this month, selected from member-bred horses who claimed their Vicbred First Win Bonus in August, is Lindy Grace, a Bacardi Lindy filly bred by member Michael Grace with a family which is a treasure trove of trotting and pacing lines...
Lindy Grace saluted in a Vicbred Platinum Maiden race at Bendigo at the end of August and became her dam, Tender Annie’s, third winner. The 2016 filly is the latest from the mare who first foal was Tender Don (Sundon, $183,000). Her other winning sibling is Annies Life (Life Sign, $39,000), another of those successful cross-over breedings to a pacing sire. Annies Life has only had two foals to date – a 2019 filly and 2021 colt, both by Aldebaran Park’s Skyvalley. Another of Lindy Grace’s siblings, Dreamtime Annie, has also been bred to, resulting in unraced mare Last Chance Lindy (Bacardi Lindy), a 2019 Angus Hall colt and most recently, a Skyvalley colt.
Tender Annie earnt over $23,000 in her race career, and is by Albatross stallion, The Contender, a pacing-bred sire whose progeny in Australia banked $2.7M with winners including the great trotter Knight Pistol and Group winner, Goldberry Bronze. His daughters across both gaits have bred 110 winners of more than $4.3M, among the best of them being Djerriwarrah and Unique Icon. Lindy Grace is the ONLY Bacardi Lindy horse from a daughter of The Contender in the country. She is doubly unique in that she also has no duplication in her pedigree for five generations, helped by the cross into pacing lines though The Contender.
Apart from The Contender siring a number of high quality trotting winners (Knight Pistol, Crystal Sunset, Maoris Crown, Klaus Koch, Northern Sugar) despite being of pacing blood, the sire of Lindy Grace’s third dam was the well performed trotting sire Bank Note (2:02.2) the sire of 50 winners in Australia, the vast majority of whom were trotters. His best performers included Just Money, Garden Star, Miracle Note and Little Interest who were all FFA winners at the Melbourne Showgrounds or Harold Park.
From Annie Sprinkle, Tender Annie was one of the Knowing Fame mare’s four winning progeny, the best being Vicki Vale (RC’s Dee Jay) who herself has thrown three winners (including Coolmore Oaks winner Lindy Vale, also by Bacardi Lindy), and Sunshine Annie (Sundon), who has two winners from her foals to the races, including Need For Speed bronze winner Bank On Betty (Bacardi Lindy) and fillies also by Bacardi Lindy and Volstead waiting in the wings. Another sister, Mememe (Life Sign), is new to the barn and her first foal is a 2019 filly by Dreamcatcher.
Annie Sprinkle was the only filly from her dam, Noble Note, to breed on, and Noble Note the only of her generation to breed on – and the same case with her dam and granddam, Noble Storm and Bettymond, , making these lines very unique.
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