Kibble and Biscuits - Greyhounds Queensland

Spotlight on Breedingcountry has seen.NEW FOXReid has always rated New Fox one ofthe best, if not the best, of the dogs he hasbred. He won the Topgun and would achievefame at stud as the sire of superstar MintMagic also a Topgun winner and twice winnerof the Tweed Galaxy.New Fox was by New Tears-Golden Fox.It didn’t take any genius for Reid to plan thismating. Travelling Girl had already producedtwo quality litters to Pretty Short (sire of NewTears) and there was a great link betweenPretty Short and Little Blade (sire of BrotherFox).Both are bred on the Temlee/Secretlycross. In fact, they carry the sisters BonnieSecret (in Little Blade) and Newmore Secret(second dam of Pretty Short).We’ve already seen that Golden Foxcarries Temlee and his sister Viola Lee, aswell as her dam Travelling Girl carrying adouble of Venetian Rose (their granddam).New Tears was in-bred 3mx2f to Temleeand was sires sex balanced to that dog. PuttingGolden Fox to New Tears would saturate thepedigree of New Fox.SUBIACOReid outcrossed Golden Fox when he puther to Chariot Supreme, or so it looked onNew FoxClonalvy PrideSilver HopeMillie HawthornLively Band*Buffalo BillKell’s QueenMiss BallincleaTegimiTivoli Dreamer*Tivoli ChiefHeather’s Ile (by Top Linen)Viola LeeMister Moss (by Which Chariot*)Temora LeeVenetian Babe (Brenda’s Babe-Venetian Rose)TRAVELLING GIRLTop LinenHigh LouvreVenetian RoseSpecial PickBruton LadBruton BestUnsearchableFreckled PickCheerful ChariotWhich Chariot*Which SideAmanda’s PickMagic LightningMajestic RadiumLittle Radiumpaper. But Chariot Supreme’s own sireWaverly Supreme traced to famed Irish Oakswinner and legendary broodbitch Prairie Peg.So too did Tivoli Dreamer, the grandsire ofTemlee.This Chariot Supreme-Golden Fox litterwas sires sex balanced to Which Chariot.Reid got a smart litter, and included in thebunch was a speedy bitch called Subiaco. Shemade a Lawnton Cup final, was a winner atAlbion Park, and was plagued by backtroubles all her career.Reid had no hesitation in breeding withher.Subiaco went off to then star Queenslandsire Credibility.Credibility (Worth Doing-No Liability)was already sires sex balanced to Temleehimself and he carried Pretty Short as the sireof his dam. He had three crosses of Temlee inhis pedigree.Subiaco produced a litter that was siressex balanced to both Brother Fox and WaverlySupreme. And among the litter was Reid’ssuperstar Questions the only dog to win Group1 races over both 520m and 710m at AlbionPark.There were no Questions about it. Thislitter was again saturated with in-breeding.GOTTA RETURNby David BraschAround the mid-1990s, Reid also put hisvery fast bitch Gotta Be Solid (Pretty Short-Travelling Girl) to Benjason who was a flopat stud (apart from Bonjase), but he did carrytwo crosses of Temlee through his famed sonSatans Legend (sires sex balanced inBenjason).This Benjason-Gotta Be Solid litter wassires sex balanced itself to Tivoli Chief. GottaBe Solid again carried the Temlee/Viola Leecross.It produced a bitch called Gotta Return.When Reid put Gotta Return to his owndog Questions, thus doubling-up on his ownbitch Golden Fox, he got Derby winner RoadClosed whose saturated pedigree is so full ofVenetian Rose it’s almost impossible to countthe duplications.ANNIE’S COMMANDODennis got a bit tired of the constant grindof travelling to and from race meetings in Qldand NSW from his Old Bonalbo property inthe late 1990s.He bought at Murwillumbah and scaleddown.But Gotta Return produced a litter to theNSW St Leger winner Elle’s Commando. Hecarried Brother Fox as his second sire andenough Temlee in his pedigree to once againprovide the litter with plenty of the samepedigree Reid had done so well with in thepast decade and a half.It produced bitches called Annie’sCommando, Twirly Girl, Must Command andMust Obey.Annie’s was easily the best and beat herlittermate Twirly Girl in the last QueenslandCup run at Beenleigh. She ran the track recordin the process.But this litter was unique for a Reid bredmating.It produced in-breeding to ChariotSupreme and his sister Like A Blessing(Waverly Supreme*-Mixed Blessings)through the middle of the pedigree. We’veseen that Waverly Supreme* traced to PrairiePeg as did Temlee’s sireline. And there wasenough of Temlee and Viola Lee in this matingto make it much as Dennis’ other in-bredmatings.But that Chariot Supreme/Like A Blessingdouble-up was different. Much different.BOILING JET etcWhen Annie’s and Twirly retired, Reidhad been off the scene for a short while. Thebitches both went to Melbourne Cup winnerGo Wild Teddy and produced flying sprinters,but nothing like New Fox, Golden Fox,Questions etc.And the thing that strikes immediately intheir pedigrees is that Pitstock Park comes inthree times through Brother Fox (twice) andhis half brother Acacia Park.Reid remembers only too well the dismallitter Travelling Girl produced to Acacia Parkback in the 1980s, a litter that won barely$2000 between them. And it was a virtualoutcross.It had no sires sex balance, and of courseno Temlee. That in itself was enough for adisaster.AGRO EBONYIn the mid-1990s Dennis experimentedwith his own damline. A number of times hecrossed it into itself. He came up with classygallopers as well. High class stayer Bring TheBacon (Solid Ebony-Mercy Travel) doubledTravelling Girl 3x2. And Gold Coast Futuritywinner Up The Road (New Fox-Urgency)doubled Golden Fox 2x2.Agro Ebony (Solid Ebony-Urgency)carried the half sisters Gotta Be Solid andGolden Fox 2x2. She won in four states oncity tracks and when she went to stud, shewas mated to Dutchy’s Angel.Among the progeny was Dutchony a topclass Adelaide sprinter and winner of 14 races,most of them at Angle Park. Dutchony, whoraced up to 2006, is the perfect example ofin-bred pedigrees Dennis Reid has beensuccessfully implementing for decades.Dutchy’s Angel is by Light Of Fire a sonof New Tears. He also carries a double-up ofPretty Short, and four crosses of Temlee. AgroEbony had her own double-up of Dennis’already saturated damline.It was always going to be the recipe forsuccess.The past quarter of a century had alreadyproven it.Dogs for Racing OverseasMust be under 26 monthsPh Steve Wilkes(07) 54465112 or 0427 319944The (September, 2007) Journal Page 31