16 January 2007
Homes for Horses : Available Now - "The Silver Fern"
email: lynmccullagh@bigpond.com
name: lyn and warren mccullagh
Telephone: (02) 94841356
Horse Name: The
Silver Fern
Sire: Opera Prince
Dam: Kiwi Fair
Birth Date: 1991
Colour: Chestnut
Height: 16h
Location: Hadden Farm Wilberforce - has been there since his retirement
aged 4
Temperament: Good
Vices: No
Traveller: ok
Injuries: racing career curtailed by cartilege problem
Suited To: Station, pony or polo stallion.
Other Info: Opera Prince stallion. Lovely stallion son of Opera Prince,
who is successful sire of 300 winners, 15 stakeswinners, and progeny
earnings of $11 million. Opera Prince is also broodmare sire of winners
of over $8 million, including Group 1 performers Victory Vein, Turridu,
Ruffles, My Sienna, Oscar Warrior and Ateates. Won three from 11 starts.
Full brother to Prince of Justice, winner of 12 races including the STC
Stayers’ Cup (Listed), and the Bathurst Cup (twice). The Silver
Fern has covered five mares resulting in five healthy live foals all
home bred. Two runners including Vines of Otago (3 starts, one third
to date). Easy to handle and would make ideal station, pony or polo stallion.
Good home essential.
Homes
for Horses
Many owners do not have the resources nor the facilities to provide a good home for a racehorse at the end of its career. For those horses not destined for a stud career, the future is often bleak.
A new initiative of the NSW Racehorse Owners Association is to provide the means by which horse owners may be put in contact with those able to offer a retired racehorse a good home.
This service is available to NSWROA members through the Association’s website. Members will be able to post details of their horse including its age, breeding, temperament, and other information, together with contact details. The facility will also enable a photograph of the horse to be displayed.
NSWROA Board Member Stephen van Eyk, who has long recognised the need for humane treatment of retired racehorses promoted this initiative which the Board of the Association has enthusiastically adopted. The philosophy behind the scheme is that all our horses serve us well and deserve good treatment when their racing days are over.
Those with the ability to offer a ‘good home to a good horse’ will be able to make direct contact with the owner of the horse.