First foal for Blue Gum Farm

Tara Madgwick - Wednesday July 31

Blue Gum Farm is will stand three stallions this spring in proven Group I producer Flying Artie, newcomer Oxley Road and brilliant juvenile Sejardan and their breeding season has begun with the arrival of their first foal.

Trilogy Racing outlaid $27,500 at the Inglis Digital May Sale earlier this year for well bred Redoute’s Choice mare Choose Your Words in foal to Capitalist and she has duly produced a lovely filly.

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Capitalist filly from Choose Your Words - first foal of the year at Blue Gum Farm.

The Blue Gum team will be looking forward to the first foals by Sebring’s lightning fast son Sejardan, who covered 103 mares last spring, so watch this space!

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