Sh@t Steve first the moderator should change my first post were I said crap change it to crack lol.

Back to you Steve, I think you could be onto somthing there mate but for now I'm hoping Matt Machine can get up in the Australian cup.
We thought Love To Rock was going into pup last night but she settled about 1am.

I like reading Braschys articles but every now and again he goes off on a tangent and makes categorical nothing statements that I find absurd.

In the article on Matt Machine he says an outcross mating can throw up a good un, maybe even another that can run a bit but the downside can be a lack of numbers with ability. Of course there are always exceptions to every rule.

To justify his argument he cites a litter from a bitch that he admits had 5 starts and never once ran a place. Instead of saying that Avatar has produced two class gallopers (Exs and Ohs is the other one and she has won 3 from 9 including two at The Meadows) from a poorly performed bitch he puts a negative slant on the sire .. as in him being an outcross.

He could have used the example of Ebby Miss whos litter by Avatar has all eleven pups named and includes top class gallopers in Ebby Ripper, Utah Miss, Ebby Chance and Suffragette or he could have used the litters from Quiz Bale, Searle Bale, Kingston Bale or Dellbrezie where nearly all the pups are named but Im guessing they are all considered exceptions to the rule.

SH Avatar is off to a flyer as he only has 9 litters of racing age in Australia with his 10th litter born here only 14 months old and Im very keen to see how his next litters turn out on the racetrack .. hoping that there are a few more Matt Machines in the mix