Personality Profile – Know Them Better

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A weekend job after leaving school at Gerry Harvey’s Armidale farm has led this Queensland born young lady to a bloodstock career in the Hunter Valley working in marketing and nominations for leading nursery Kitchwin Hills.


Kate Dallimore pictured with a yearling from Duchess Kate.

This week we find out more about Kate Dallimore, who works in Marketing and Nominations at Kitchwin Hills.

1/ Where are you from, and what got you in involved in the thoroughbred industry?

I’m originally from Brisbane/Gold Coast but I moved away and went to Boarding School in NSW when I was 15. I have ridden and been around horses from a young age, but once I finished school I started a weekend job at Gerry Harvey’s farm in Armidale and it went from there.

2/ What does a workday in the life of Kate Dallimore look like?

A normal work day for me varies throughout the year but a typical day I would get to the office around 7:30/8:00, jump on my emails and get a bit of a to do list going.

I book all the walk outs as well as doing Sooboog and Graff’s book then I’m onto any marketing I have scheduled.

Kate and Mick Malone at the sales with John Kelly.

When the yearlings are in, I try to get to the yearling barn most days to do client updates or to run my eye over the yearlings in prep or spend time doing some parade practice with any young staff and between all that it’s lots of phone calls and of course, travelling to all the sales during the year!


3/ Who is your favourite horse and why?

My favourite horse is of course my own… Dazzle! I prepped him as a yearling nearly 10 years ago! Then when he was a slow/unsound racehorse he came to me as a three year old.

Serene Majesty and her 2021 I Am Invincible colt.

But on farm I’d say Serene Majesty, a gorgeous Fastnet Rock mare who consistently gives excellent foals and was a handy race mare herself winning the Group III Scone Guineas. She’s just beautiful and with the pedigree to match out of a stakes-winning Lonhro mare Custard.

4/ Tell us about the best day you had at the races or at the sales, and what made it memorable for you?


Billiondollarbaby sold for $1million.

One of my most memorable days actually took place at the farm at Kitchwin when the Inglis Easter Sale went online, we sold Billiondollarbaby (I Am Invincible x Srikandi) for $1,000,000 and California Surreal (I Am Invincible x Serene Majesty) for $650,000 – they were both really special fillies and it was amazing to get such a good result for the both of them especially in that climate.

California Surreal sold for $650,000.

5/ What is your favourite show on Netflix or TV?

My Octopus Teacher…. Trust me, watch it!!

6/ Now that travel has re-opened where is the first place you will go?

New Zealand or England.

7/ What is your favourite cuisine and restaurant?

Japanese. ‘Shoya’ in Melbourne is the best!

8/ Name two things on your bucket list?

Sky diving and live in a foreign country.

9/ What’s the best advice someone has ever given you?

If you don’t ask then you’ll never receive.

10/ Tell us one thing that not many people may know about you?

I went to my first Magic Millions Sale when I was about 12, I made feeds and picked up boxes– I still remember my Aunty (she prepped the yearlings) crying her eyes out when her favourite horse sold!




 

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