Sunday Silence

wallinga · Postby **wallinga** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:01 pm

kimberley mine wrote:
Bast wrote:Have any Sunday Silence sons shuttled to Australia or New Zealand and duplicated their success in those countries?

Fuji Kiseki shuttled to Australia for a while, and Sunday Silence himself bred mares on SH time who were later exported to Australia. Not very many of those, maybe 25?

FK didn't have quite the success that was hoped. He is tail-female to the dam of Mill Reef and does best when that line is returned to him. Unfortunately in Aussie's case, Mill Reef is very rare, and so after a few seasons he didn't come back.

I have often thought that a one or two year breeding lease to France would be very, very good for Fuji Kiseki.

His best Aussie-bred runner: http://www.pedigreequery.com/sun+classique

Sunday Silence's best Aussie-bred runner: http://www.pedigreequery.com/keep+the+faith3 Couldn't keep a whole campaign together, but is turning into a decent sire.

Don't forget Sunday joy that won an Oaks, genuine sired an Australian Cup winner in Pompeii Ruler and Tsayasu Tsuioshi sired a VRC oaks winner in Hollow Bullet

erhrdt3 · Postby **erhrdt3** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:22 am

Deep Impact is an incredible horse. I loved Sunday Silence and was sick when he went to Japan.

Then War Emblem went over there, isn't he back here now? Seems they like the pretty all black stallions over there...not that color means anything, just a coincidence.

Has anyone heard about how one of my favs, Silver Charm is doing? :?:

I say BRING HIM HOME! Before something bad happens to him over there. I don't want to bring up two very famous horses that one of them met their untimely end in Japan....

Patuxet · Postby **Patuxet** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:48 am

erhrdt3 write: "I say BRING HIM HOME! Before something bad happens to him over there. I don't want to bring up two very famous horses that one of them met their untimely end in Japan...."

Like nothing bad ever happens in this country? Meet Alydar!

Bast · Postby **Bast** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:52 am

Patuxet wrote:erhrdt3 write: "I say BRING HIM HOME! Before something bad happens to him over there. I don't want to bring up two very famous horses that one of them met their untimely end in Japan...."

Like nothing bad ever happens in this country? Meet Alydar!

Or Favorite Trick, who died in a barn fire (not through malice, however, unlike Alydar).

erhrdt3 · Postby **erhrdt3** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:30 pm

Oh for Heaven's sake, give me a BREAK, of course bad things happen to horses, non winners namely, in this country. I write about it all the time on this forum. These famous boys would have less of a chance of being slaughtered in the USA than over there, and do any of you know how far the horse area of Japan is compared to the tragedy of the earthquake/tsunami?

At least Bob Baffert said he was going to keep tabs on Silver Charm so that nothing "would happen to him" and we all knew what he was saying.

Did not know Favorite Trick died in a fire, that is terrible, as is the recent highway fire of the transporter carrying 6 innocents in the trailer that all perished in the fire.

And poor Alydar, what ever came of that situation, if anything? Did they get away with it? I was much younger back in those days so I did not keep up as much as I try to now.

Bast: who is Phalaris? :?:

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:18 pm

[quote="erhrdt3"]
And poor Alydar, what ever came of that situation, if anything? Did they get away with it? I was much younger back in those days so I did not keep up as much as I try to now.

"Despite the circumstantial evidence and the MIT professor's conclusions, assistant U.S. attorneys Julia Tomala and James Powers knew they didn't have enough evidence to convict Lundy of killing Alydar. But they did have enough, they thought, to convict him of a host of financial shenanigans."
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/dd_unbridled_greed/11.html

zinn21 · Postby **zinn21** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:38 pm

Wonder what Dick Lundy is doing today?

xfactor fan · Postby **xfactor fan** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:39 pm

Anyone interested in the Alydar story should try to pick up a copy of "Wild Ride" most likely out of print, but a well researched history of the family and the fall of Calumet.

I'd always figured that it was someone from the bank that orchestrated the "accident" . As in follow the money, and the bank got most if not all the insurance payout on Alydar.

You might do a search on this topic, it has come up before, and I believe that Pan Zareta had some information on exactly who did time, and who walked.