Rowe Cup of the last month in which Queen Elida (Love you) Third finished as her last race. The champion now tacit mare from the racing delicate.
The Recent Zealand mare breeded a great career in Australia and competed at the highest level. This season Queen Elida became the richest missions that deserve trotting in Australasia and only the second mare that won more than one million dollars.
“I remember when I sent her there and thought that if she could win $ 100,000, it would be bloody.
Under Barron's Guidance, Queen Elida had five starts in Recent Zealand at the age of two before driving to Australia.
“It was shortly before Covid or right.
In Australia, she really made a name for herself and as a measure of her class were forty -four of her eight -eight starts in both countries in group races.
For four seasons she was the best trabfut trotting in Australia, and when she didn't hit her own sex, she competed against the best male trotters.
“She was a three -year -old traffute of the year and in the next three years she was over $ 200,000 per season in the five seasons of the race.
The group of Queen Elida wins the need for Speed Princess Final, Victoria Trotter's Oaks, three -year -old Stutfo foals, Summingaboutmaori, La -Coocaracha, Macarthur Mile and Bill Collins Mile.
She also raced in three intermediate dominion finals and took third place in 2022 and 2023 and fifth in 2024.
Their best mile of 1-53.0 was recorded in the Macarthur Mile in Menangle, which she won with seventeen and a half lengths.
“We were there for all of their groups to Covid. Her best victory, which made her hair on the neck, was the Macarthur Mile. It was a huge sum. Then there was still the breeder crown. It was a great effort.”
20 of their thirty -seven victories were in Melton and Chris Alford they drove for all of their races. Her longest winning streak was eight, between June 2023 and October 2023.
In April last year, she returned to Recent Zealand and ran second in Waikato Flying Mile before taking third place in the 600,000 US dollar Tab in Cambridge.
This year she was back on her farewell tour when she was second in the tab on the tab, the second in the TWO Lyell Creek group, the fourth in the G1anzac Cup and third place in the G1 Rowe Cup.
Her second in this year's Tab Mobile Trot earned her 84,500 US dollars and was her biggest day of life.
Queen Elida belongs to the Southland Farmer Gordon McKenzie (Boof) with his sons Graeme, Blair and Brad together with Tony and Cheryl Barron. The group will now breed the millionaire.
“We will only throw a coin to see who of her breeds first. We haven't done that yet. We will only make foals.”
When Barron was pressed about which stallion he would choose, he was not sure.
“Everyone keeps asking me. I just don't know. I have the other two Mares queen Kenny (mother Elida's mother) and Queen Bea (a full sister of Queen Elida) and they are in foals with Volstead.”
Queen Elida is currently down in Mana Park by George and Maryanne Simon.
“When I win the throw, I think I will bring it home. Donna Williamson, who is a very good veterinarian, is only five minutes up the street.”
Although Lilley loses Queen Elida's services, her half sister Queen Kizen (What the hill) is now being trained from his barn.
She was also developed by Barron and won her first two starts as a two -year -old before ran in third place in the Recent Zealand Trabstöcken and Aldebaran Eagle Two -yal -Classic.
“I have three mares for setting, so I didn't need any other. Boof wanted to run it there. Duncan McPherson (Aldebaran Park) wanted something from this breed in Australia, so he bought my half. It all worked out well.”
So if a chapter closes the Queen Elida story, another is opened.
“It was a great five -year trip, but now it's time for the next phase of her life. I would like to get a foal out of her. It will be a kind of pension fund (laugh).”
from Bruce StewartFor Hartnesslink
