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THANO FOALS

 

09 Zazu

 

 

09 Zalo

 

09 Wot

 

09 Winkum 

 

09 Strike Clover

 

09 She’s Cool

 

09 Pennies n Promises

 

09 On Target

 

09 Lanai Star

 

09 Jennifer Higgs

 

09 Zazu Filly

 

09 Winkum Filly

 

09 On Target Filly

 

09 Jennifer Higgs Filly

 

THANO’S FIRST BORN FOAL – Ex Singing Class

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Posted By Administrator on November 26, 2009

As at 26th November, Thano has served  65  mares…..

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Posted By Administrator on May 21, 2009

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THANO (ARG) BAY 2002 16.2 hh

A Gr 1 winner in South America. South American form and bloodlines have stood up to the test of Australasian racing through the deeds of the progeny of Hussonet this season.

Ctry RACE RECORD (in Argentina) Stakes

Age	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd
2 years ARG	2	-	1	-		3,250Arg$
3 years ARG	6	2	1	1		41,005Arg$
4 years ARG	2	1	-	1		43,750Arg$
	10	3	2	2		88,005Arg$

At 3 years: San Isidro Premio Wandering (1600m), Palermo Premio Inminente (1600m), 3d San Isidro Clasico Capital, Gr.2 (1600m to Tentativo and Ice Horse).

At 4 years: Palermo G.P. General San Martin, Gr.1 (1800m beating Juan Talentoso and Sixty Finder), 3d Palermo Clasico Peru, Gr.2 (1800m to Mooner and Juan Talentoso).

STUD RECORD

Will commence stud duties in New Zealand in 2008.

BY SOUTHERN HALO

5 wins, US$344,875, 2d Hollywood Swaps S., Gr.1, Louisiana Super Derby Invitational, Gr.1, Hollywood Silver Screen H., Gr.2. Half-brother to the dam of NOTABLE CAREER (Santa Anita Oak Leaf S., Gr.1), GENERAL CHALLENGE, SNOW DANCE, WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Out of NORTHERN SEA.

Champion Sire in Argentina in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004. Champion Sire of 2YOs in 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001. Champion Broodmare Sire in 2005, 2006, 2007.

Sire of 157 SW

SOUTHERN SPRING (93f, More Light, Tudor Melody). 1996 Champion 2YO & 1997 Champion 3YO Filly in Argentina. Palermo G.P. Jorge de Atucha, Gr.1.

IVORY TOWER (98f, Cipayo, Vervain). Champion 2YO filly in Argentina in 2000-01. San Isidro G.P. de Potrancas, Gr.1, G.P. Estrellas Juvenile Fillies, Gr.1.

LA GALERIE (96f, Logical, Make Tracks). Champion 2YO filly in 1999 in Argentina. Palermo G.P. Saturnino J. Unzue, Gr.1, Clasico Carlos Casares, Gr.2.

HALO OLA (00f, Ringaro, El Virtuoso). Champion older mare in Argentina in 2005. San Isidro G.P. Internacional Copa de Plata, Gr.1, G.P. de Potrancas, Gr.1.

MR. NANCHO (00c, Fitzcarraldo, Our Talisman). Champion miler in Argentina in 2003-04. Palermo G.P. Palermo, Gr.1, 2d Palermo G.P. Polla de Potrillos, Gr.1.

MISS LINDA (97f, Fitzcarraldo, Our Talisman). Champion Argentine 3YO Filly in 2000-01. San Isidro G.P. Enrique Acebal, Gr.1, Keeneland Spinster S., Gr.1.

TEAM (95c, Farnesio, Solazo). 1998-99 Argentine Horse of

The Year. Palermo G.P. Santiago Luro, Gr.1. EDENWOLD (03c, Mining, Best Turn). Champion 2YO colt

in Canada in 2005.

WALLY (91f, Logical, Solazo). San Isidro Clasico Carrera de las Estrellas Sprint, Gr.1-3 times.

MY LAD (99c, Logical, Mount Athos). La Plata G.P. Ciudad de La Plata, Gr.1.

CADEAUX (91f, Salt Marsh, Make Tracks). Palermo G.P.

Saturnino J. Unzue, Gr.1, G.P. Jorge de Atucha, Gr.1. EL COMPINCHE (91c, Good Manners, Right of Way).

Palermo .G.P. Palermo, Gr.1-twice.

MORE THAN READY (97c, Woodman, Naskra). Saratoga

King’s Bishop S, Gr.1, 2d Keeneland Blue Grass S, Gr.1. ROCKVILLE (91c, Tropical Sun, Tatán). San Isidro Clasico

Carrera de las Estrellas de Potrillos, Gr.1.

VENUSINO (94c, Logical, Make Tracks). San Isidro G.P.

Suipacha, Gr.1, 3d Palermo G.P. Maipu, Gr.1. FLIRTEADOR (95c, Salt Marsh, Farnesio). Palermo G.P.

General San Martin, Gr.1, 3d G.P. San Isidro, Gr.1.

HANDSOME HALO (94c, Northern Jove, Restless Native).

Palermo G.P. Santiago Luro, Gr.1.

SEBASTIANO (02c, Ringaro, General). Palermo G.P. Santiago Luro, Gr.1, G.P. Montevideo, Gr.1.

PETIT CLUB (98c, Nasty and Bold, Top Command). San Isidro G.P. Estrellas Juvenile, Gr.1.

BRISQUE (91c, Salt Marsh, Solito). G.P. Ciudad de La

Plata, Gr.1, La Plata Clasico Benito Lynch, Gr.3. MATTHIS (94c, Logical, Mount Athos). Palermo Clasico

Carrera de las Estrellas Sprint, Gr.1.

MY HALO (95c, Groovy, Good Manners). San Isidro G.P. Felix de Alzaga Unzue, Gr.1.

HANGAR (90c, Logical, Cambremont) Palermo Nacional, Gr.1. BON VIVANT (96c, Farmer, Larkspur). La Plata G.P. Joaquin V Gonzalez, Gr.1.

MASTERPIECE (00c, Gold Trojan, More Light). San Isidro G.P. San Isidro, Gr.1.

MANPOWER (99c, Gold Trojan, More Light). San Isidro G.P. Estrellas Classic, Gr.1.

SEBI HALO (98c, Ringaro, El Virtuoso). San Isidro G.P. Suipacha, Gr.1.

TAIMAZOV (96c, Greinton, Dancing Moss). San Isidro G.P. Suipacha, Gr.1, G.P. Estrellas Sprint, Gr.1.

FAIRY MAGIC (03c, Lookinforthebigone, Dancing Moss). San Isidro G.P. Estrellas Classic, Gr.1.

BATALLOSA (03f, Senor Pete, Logical). Palermo Gran Premio Saturnino J Unzue, Gr.1.

ALERT (02c, Senor Pete, Logical). San Isidro G.P. Estrellas Juniors Sprint, Gr.1.

His sire sons include More Than Ready (43 SW), Spring Halo (10 SW), El Compinche (9 SW), Handsome Halo, My Halo, Matthis, Sudoeste, Top Sider, etc.

Ernesto (Alleged). 7 wins from 1500m to 2550m, VATC

Gaine Carrington H., 2d WATC Perth Cup, Gr.2.

INDALECIO (Cipayo). 4 wins in U.S.A. and Arg, Palermo G.P. Nacional, Gr.1, Clasico Manuel J Guiraldes, Gr.3, 3d Palermo G.P. Polla de Potrillos, Gr.1. Sire.

AGAPANTO (Cipayo). 6 wins from 1600m to 2850m, Newmarket TC Owners’ & Trainers’ H., Gr.2, 3d South African Derby, Gr.1. Sire.

Vladimir (Cipayo). 5 wins from 1600m to 2000m, 2d Turffontein Gold Bowl, Gr.1.

Lilas (Cipayo). Winner in Arg, 3d San Isidro Clasico Juan

Shaw, Gr.2, Clasico Federico de Alvear, Gr.2. Dam of-Humildona (Lode). Winner in Arg, 2d Clasico Polla de

Potrancas de La Plata, Gr.2. Dam of

Hispana (Luhuk). 6 wins from 1200m to 1600m in Arg, 3d San Isidro Clasico Austria, L.

Quick. Raced twice. Dam of

KALEB (Dushyantor). 2 wins in Chile, Club Hipico Clasico Luis Cousino Squella, Gr.3, 3d Club Hipico Clasico El Ensayo, Gr.1, Clasico Invierno, Gr.3.

KASHBA (King Alex). 6 wins in Chile, Valparaiso Copa El Mercurio, L, 2d Valparaiso Clasico Alfredo LS Jackson, Gr.3.

Iskara. Unraced. Dam of

IVORY TOWER (Southern Halo). Champion 2YO filly in Argentina in 2000-01. 3 wins at 1200m, 1600m in Arg, San Isidro G.P. de Potrancas, Gr.1.

ISCATON (Slew Gin Fizz). 8 wins from 1400m to 1800m in Arg, San Isidro Clasico Macon, L, 3d San Isidro G.P. 25 de Mayo, Gr.1.

INDIAN TEAM (Hidden Prize). 7 wins at 1600m in Arg. and Uru, Maroñas Gran Premio Municipal, L. Vatra. Unraced. Dam of

MARRUSA (Slew Gin Fizz). 3 wins to 1800m in Arg,

Palermo Clasico Francisco J. Beazley, Gr.2.

Croatica (Lucky Roberto). 2 wins at 1400m, 1600m,

3d Palermo Clasico Francisco J. Beazley, Gr.2.

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Posted By Administrator on May 4, 2009

Thano set to make his mark at Grangewilliam by Dennis Ryan

South Taranaki horseman Mark Corcoran will have the perfect complement when he takes over his family’s Grangewilliam Stud for the upcoming breeding season.

Thano, a Group One-winning son of potent sire influence Southern Halo, takes up duties at the Waitotara nursery this spring. The Argentine-bred and performed stallion will be a welcome addition to lower North Island ranks, representing the sire-line that has most recently produced champion Australian two-year-old Sebring.

Southern Halo is also responsible for Sebring’s sire More Than Ready, who is lonely at the top of the Australian two-year-old sires’ premiership following the deeds of his star son and others such as leading filly Augusta Proud. A photo-finish denied Sebring the perfect end to his first season when he attempted to add last Saturday’s Gr. 1 Champagne Stakes to an unbeaten sequence headed by the Golden Slipper-AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes double.

More Than Ready is represented at stud in New Zealand by Perfectly Ready, one of the four Group One-winning progeny he has sired in Australia from his Vinery Stud shuttle base, while Southern Halo’s direct influence is best recognised in this part of the world through the Canterbury stallion My Halo.

With his oldest progeny now five years old, he has built a reputation for his ability to produce a smart galloper, none more so than the 2007 Macau Derby winner Ka Lam Fortune who has once again been a star performer for My Halo as he heads the sires’ premiership in that jurisdiction.

Like My Halo, Thano was bred and raced in Argentina where he won three of his 10 starts and was placed in four others. His headlining success came as a four-year-old in the Gr. 1 Palermo General San Martin over 1800m, while he was also placed twice at Group Two level.

North American-bred Southern Halo, whose sire Halo also produced the major influence Sunday Silence, began his stud career in Argentina where he proved his class with multiple premiership wins through the 1990s and into this decade. His success inspired the Coolmore group to shuttle him to their Ashford Stud base in Kentucky, where More Than Ready and others were sired.

South America’s significance as a source of world class horses has long been recognised, with a particularly relevant example from an Australasian point of view the former champion Chilean stallion Hussonet, who has quickly made his mark standing in the Hunter Valley.

Another to place South America in good light is former Uruguayan champion Invasor, whose fame spread to the United States and then to the United Arab Emirates. After sweeping the board as a three-year-old in his home country, Invasor won the Gr. 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic at four and the Gr. 1 Dubai World Cup in his final season last year.

Invasor, who now stands at Shadwell Stud’s Kentucky base, is in fact closely related to Thano, with the pair sharing a common ancestress in Twins. Thano is out of the unraced mare Di Machine, a daughter of the Seattle Slew horse Digression whose wins included the Gr. 2 Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot.

Di Machine is a three-quarter-sister to multiple Argentine Group One winner Di Escorpion and is a half-sister to Ilustrador, the champion galloper of his era in South Africa.

An obvious strength of this line is its ability to perform in numerous parts of the world, something that isn’t lost on Mark Corcoran as he prepares Thano for his stud career.

“It’s a fantastic pedigree on both sides and to have a Group One winner with this background is exciting,” says Corcoran, who cut his teeth at Grangewilliam and for the past two years has managed new Waikato operation Dormello Stud.

“It’s a good time to be kicking off a horse by Southern Halo. He hasn’t been here for long but I’m impressed with him. He’s a striking type, big and strong and a good nature.”

The deal to secure Thano was negotiated by Canterbury bloodstock agent Roddy Fulton, who also brought My Halo to New Zealand. His involvement will continue, including the arrangement of subsidised travel for South Island mares.

“We’ve got a solid band of loyal clients and we’re already getting inquiries from further afield,” added Corcoran. “It’s hard to know at this stage how many mares he’ll end up with in his first season but the signs are that he’ll get off to a good start.”

Thano will stand at an introductory fee of $5,000 plus GST.

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Posted By Administrator on May 4, 2009

Thano has the credentials by John Richardson

It is seldom indeed that New Zealand breeders have the oppor tunity to patronize a classy Group One winning young sire, who comes from a world class female line and is a son of a highly commercial stallion, all for the eminently reasonable stud fee of $5,000.

Such was the coup accomplished by Mark Corcoran at the Grangewilliam Stud at Waitotara near Wanganui, when he secured THANO to stand the 2008 covering season as his foundation sire alongside Sandtrap and Brilliance. Mark is, of course, no stranger to the stud game with considerable experience and bred to the job, both his mother Ann, who stood Al Akbar amongst others, and father John, who did so well with War Hawk II etc., having been in the stallion standing business for much of their lives.

Thano won three races at 1600m., 1800m. from 10 star ts in Argentina including the G1 Gran Premio General San Martin at Palermo as a four year old, and was group two placed second at three and four years. His sire Southern Halo by now needs little introduction with Sebring’s sire More Than Ready a major success in Australia where he has just finished second to Encosta de Lago on the General Sires List. On this side of the ditch My Halo has done well from a South Island base with the Macau Derby winner Ka Lam Fortune and the good southern sprinter O’Cartier. In the North too Stoney Bridge’s Mr. Nancho looks just the sort to be a success and the one yearling by him that I have seen is a very good sort. Thano, himself, is an impressive type, a very dark bay like so many of the Halo tribe, and standing 16-2 hands high.

On the distaf f side Thano’s dam Di Machine is half sister to three Group One winners and a Group Two winner in South America and South Africa, plus two fur ther group winner producing mares, and if that were not enough she is also three quar ter blood sister to Di Escorpion, winner of four Group One races. That the family has provenance outside South America is proved by Invasor, considered the best horse in the world with six group one wins including the Dubai World Cup and Breeders Cup Classic. He is just one of a host of group stakes winners from this outstanding South American family. Di Machine’s sire is Digression (by Seattle Slew), who was rated the Champion 2YO Colt in England in 1989 where he won the Ascot Royal Lodge Stakes G2 before going to the States where he also won stakes. Her maternal grandsire is the Crepello horse Vervain, who won the Royal Ascot King Edward VII Stakes.

Thano’s grandam Disy has balanced linebreeding to Crepello’s sire the Tesio bred Donatello II (Blenheim) and also has doubles of Hyperion, Blandford and Mieuxce. Digression, to whom Disy was mated to produce Thano’s dam, has balanced Nasrullah through his sire the great Seattle Slew, Put together the pedigree shows a balance of Gainsborough and doubles of Blenheim, his sire Blandford, and Nearco.

The mating of Southern Halo, who carries balanced Blue Larkspur, Gainsborough, Pharos and Mumtaz Begum, with Di Machine was an excellent one and it comes as little surprise to find that it produced a good Group One winner in Thano. He has a huge range of sex balanced doubles, trebles and quadruples, far more than one might usually find, the closest being 3 x 5 to Hail to Reason and 4 x 5 to Nearctic, but also including Mahmoud, Native Dancer, Bold Ruler, Blue Larkspur, Hyperion, Polynesian, Nasrullah, Pharos, Mumtaz Begum and Gainsborough and there are nine lines of Mumtaz Mahal way back.

Southern Halo is, of course, out of a Northern Dancer mare and has a double of Almahmoud to the half sisters Cosmah and Natalma. The obvious mating for Thano would be to find mares with male lines of Northern Dancer, and there should be a great many of them. Female presences of Halo, Seattle Slew and Crepello are also desirable to add further balance, and, of course, any further duplications that already exist in Thano will do no harm.

Some of the sires, whose daughters appealed to me as prospective mates for Thano included the Curraghmore pair Dagger’s Drawn and City On A Hill, Generous, Black Minnaloushe, Howbaddouwantit, Istidaad, Keeper, No Excuse Needed, Riviera, Straight Strike, Traditionally, Four Seasons, Mellifont and Woodbury Lad.

I rather think that Thano will not lack for opportunity and that a season or two hence, the current stud fee might look remarkable value.

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