KWH Bred Dominate Australian Horse of the Year Awards

Media Release - Friday October 9

The Horse of the Year Awards held this week crowned two Kitchwin Hills bred horses the best of their category, when Everest winner Yes Yes Yes took out champion 3yo colt, and Melbourne Cup winner Vow and Declare champion stayer. 

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In what was one of Kitchwin's best seasons on the track headlined by the Everest/Melbourne Cup double at the end of 2019, it was a real testament to our breeders for what they have been working on within their breeding stock for a long time. 
 
Yes Yes Yes, pictured as a yearling, sports the KWH brand

While we managed to have two named by the Horse of the Year awards bred on the farm, the likes of Pierata, Dubious, Splintex & Overlord all played massive roles in projecting our brand for the season. 

The whole Kitchwin team are extremely proud of the horses the hills have produced not only last season but over the past 20 plus years, for a farm this size it certainly punches out of its weight division and that is something we are extremely proud of. 

We love to see breeders like Brett Bradley who bred Yes Yes Yes from the Wellington boot winner Sin Sin Sin, a filly he purchased as a weanling.

These horses are life changing for breeders like Brett who dream of breeding these champions and take the punt and become entrenched in the planning of matings and right throughout the decision making processes. To buy a horse as a weanling, race it and then go on to breed a horse like Yes Yes Yes is exactly why we are all in this industry, the unknown of where the next champion will come from. 

Likewise Paul Lanskey's dream of breeding a Melbourne Cup winner came to fruition when an Australian bred and owned horse Vow & Declare held off the multitude of international challenges to win on the first Tuesday in November.
KWH branded Vow and Declare as a yearling

No doubt when the son of Declaration of War passed in at the yearling sales Paul wasn't exactly counting it as a blessing, but again that uncertainty is what keeps the industry alive and rewards those who stick strong and believe in the product they produce.   
 
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