Not
many 28 year-old stallions are still covering mares, but Bullarook Park Stud
have one of the feel good stories of the breeding season proving love in the
twilight years is a happening thing!.
One of only three remaining sons of champion sire Last Tycoon (IRE) along with
Tycoon Ruler and Fubu, 28 year-old Monde Bleu (GB) is best known as the sire of
the dam of the great champion Alinghi.
He also features in the pedigree of her close relation Beneteau, the ill-fated
sire of Thursday's runaway Group I VRC Oaks winner Lasquetiti Spirit.
Monde Bleu covered his first mares in Australia back in 1994 and has covered
mares in every year since until last year when Bullarook studmaster Malcolm
Boyd decided to give him a year off.
Buoyed with enthusiasm after his short break, Monde Bleu was thrilled to find two
mares booked to him this spring.
The lovely ladies were age appropriate for a senior citizen being 20 year-old
No Feelings (the dam of two winners and a current yearling by Monde Bleu) and 23
year-old Bisraami, whose nine year-old Monde Bleu gelding Wee Mac was a winner
at Warrnambool for the Jarrod McLean stable on Oaks Day and has won over
$160,000 in prizemoney.
He marched to the breeding shed with a spring in his step, only the greying
around his head giving a clue to his considerable vintage.
"He covered one in the morning and one in the evening and you wouldn't believe
it but both are in foal to him off that first service!" revealed Malcolm Boyd.
Where there is life there can be love and for those considering their options
late in the season, Monde Bleu's 2016 book is still open!