Widden Stud Victoria Stallions on Parade – Test Your Mare with a Hypothetical Mating

Tara Madgwick - Friday August 18

The weather was cold, but the stallions were hot at the Widden Stud Victoria stallion parade on Friday with a big crowd in attendance to see nine stallions representing a great mix of promising and proven sire talent.

Widden Stud Victoria welcomed a big crowd on Friday.

New to the line up this year is super fast Group winning Snitzel sprinter Bruckner, who was trained by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace.

Bruckner, click for more info and a Hypo mating.

Antony Thompson and David Eustace, co-trainer of Bruckner.

Moving into an exciting phase of their careers at stud are Russian Camelot (IRE), Dirty Work and Doubtland, who will all have yearlings on offer at the sales next year.

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Russian Camelot, could he be another So You Think? Click for more info.

Antony Thompson with Nina and Danny O'Brien, who trained Russian Camelot.

Dirty Work is a brilliant son of Written Tycoon, click for more info.

Doubtland was a $1.1million yearling and G2 winner by Not a Single Doubt, click for more info.

Proven favourite Nicconi will always be known as the sire of Australian Horse of the Year and Royal Ascot hero Nature Strip, but having produced 130 winners last season is one of the most prolific sires of winners in Victoria.

Nicconi takes the guess work out of breeding a winner, click for more info.

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