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 ANTON KOOLMAN BLOODSTOCK SCORES IN THE WEST. |
Exciting Fred Kersley trained youngster Roman Time was named Champion WA Two Year Old at the end of season Racehorse Owners awards ceremony in Perth on the weekend.
A progressive gelding by ill-fated sire Danetime (IRE), he hit his straps late in the season when winning the Group Two WATC Karrakatta Plate and Group Three WATC Sires’ Produce Stakes.
A $44,000 purchase from the 2006 Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Perth, Roman Time is the second foal of well-related mare True Roman, a ten year-old half-sister by Is It True (USA) to stakes-winners Grey Man and Tolo Harbour, her grand-dam being champion mare Maybe Mahal.
True Roman was secured by Sydney based bloodstock agent Anton Koolman for a Shanghai based client last August while in foal to Xaar (GB) and has since produced a colt foal last spring and been covered by the young Danehill (USA) stallion Bearcat, a full brother to Golden Slipper winner and highly successful sire Catbird.
The resulting foal will be a three-quarter brother to Roman Time, who is by Danehill’s talented sire son Danetime (IRE) (sadly deceased), who finished the 2006/2007 season as the second leading second crop sire by earnings behind Show a Heart.
Bearcat stands at Taunton Vale Stud near Bunbury in WA in the care of Kent and Nina Johnston and covered over 80 mares last season at a fee of $4,400.
 With high fertility of 90% he will have plenty of runners to get his stud career off to a great start.
A $700,000 purchase by Anton Koolman from the 2001 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Bearcat raced exclusively in Hong Kong where he proved a well above average sprinter holding the track record at Happy Valley for 1400 metres.
As a full brother to Yarraman Park’s prolific winner getter Catbird (pictured left) , who passed away earlier this year, Bearcat makes a fine addition to the West Australian breeding industry.
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