Updated several horses' progeny records - I am not really the most organised person, so it happens often that I forget to update them :P
Sky's On Fire now has his 16th foal on the ground!! Seems like he's becoming quite a popular sire now :) Go Sky!
May Racing Carnival results are in!! :D Our horses did fantastic, with Sky's On Fire and Black Heavens both winning their G1 races!! *happy dance* Also Secret Silence and Dark Mirage did very well, both getting 2nd place in their G1s. Dance With Ravens took 1st place in his G3 race as well, so I was super pleased about all that. Paint Me A Winner and Swift Solution both got 3rd place in their G1 races in the Novice section (up against very tough competition!), so in fact, all horses did very well :) Sky's On Fire has now earned $5million+!! A big achievement! All the horses that I wanted to run in the Triple Cup this year, have now earned enough to auto-qualify for the TR, so that goal has been achieved too :D
Changed the layout of the site a tiny bit by dividing the stallions and colts into Colts and Mature Stallions, and the mares and fillies into Fillies and Mature Mares. Like this, people can see what horses can be possible sires and dams, without having to look through all the horses' pages to find out how old they are :)
Have also entered some horses in the next meet (9th June) already. That meet, the horses that will be sold in the auction will make their first start, so let's keep our fingers crossed! :D Another bit of the race results of 28th April came in today. SMS Blacklock has had his 2nd straight win! :D He beat 4 other horses (including SMS Timetraveller, who took 3rd place) in the By My Side Stakes C6, earning $30,000. At first, we just added Blacklock to the herd because he had such a fantastic pedigree with lines to Man 'O War and Count Fleet (two of my favourite race horses! :) ). But as he's now proving himself on the track, we think that we might have a stallion like Sky on our hands (actually shouldn't say that because it will probably bring bad luck :P). So, if Blacklock continues to do well, we might put him up against the big boys and girls ;)
Oh, before I forget, pictures, of SMS Fleet Beat were added to his personal page too, so go check him out! :) Races for the May Racing Carnival have closed and are now being judged :) We have high hopes for Sky's On Fire, Black Heavens and Secret Silence. Hopefully Dark Mirage will do well too, but I don't expect her to win, as she's up against last year's Champion 3yo Filly, Totally Naked. So that will be quite a challenge for her, but she will just do her best and we'll see how she's up against the big horses :)
Today, another stallion (actually colt) was added to the Stallions list too. His name is SMS Fleet Beat, and he is a son or our successful racer SMS Paint Me A Winner. His dam is the beautiful mare Evening Jewel ®, a halfsister of Afleet Alex ®. You can check him out as his page is nearly finished. Only the pictures are missing (weather has been pretty bad over the last few days here in Italy). His birthyear is 2012, so he will not be available for breeding untill 2015. This was done on purpose though, so his breeding years don't clash too much with Paint Me A Winner's :) Lastly, we have created the IDs for the 2012 ABRB Starters Auction. One is by Sky (so he now has 2 foals for auction, as he has another one with Totally Naked), one is by Dance With Ravens and one by War Front. So, we hope you will all like them and bid on them in the Auction! :D Results for the Steeplechase meet of 12 May are in! SMS Blue Jezebel came in 3rd in her G1 race! She did extreemly well as this was her first steeplechase race. Jezebel definately does better over the fences than on the flat :D
Today I also updated foal records and changed the format of the Progeny records of the horses a bit so that the horses' pages wouldn't be so long (it takes forever to scroll through Sky's progeny). So, as you may (or may not) have noticed, the homepage has changed :) We decided that there was too much text and content on the page, which makes it confusing for new visitors to understand what this website is all about. Instead, there is now just a bit of text, a slideshow and a few ads on the homepage with links to the All Breeds Racing Board and our most popular stallions. The rest of the information is now listed under the page About & Awards (which is a subpage of About SMS).
Also, SMS Dark Mirage won her race against Red Baron from Gubbera Park! That'll really boost her earnings and race record :) The last of the results of Meet 7 (28th April) are coming in too. Sky's On Fire gained another 1st place in the Yellow Stakes G3. He's now all ready for his G1 race in the May Racing Carnivale! I have finally purchased a model body for SMS Silly Lilly! :D She's going to be the gorgeous Strapless model that came with the Breyer Limited Edition Sidesaddle set instead of a Breyer Headley Brittania. Now only need to purchase bodies for SMS Blacklock, SMS Dark Mirage, SMS Cruising Home and SMS Secret Silence.
Updated pictures of SMS Tantrum Desire and SMS Swift Solution. Also updated the homepage.
I've also added a new horse to the Youngstock page, SMS Fleet Beat. He's a son of SMS Paint Me A Winner and the real racehorse Evening Jewel (by Northern Afleet). He will commence his racing carreer late 2012. |