El Pescado with, from left, trainer Stuart Manning, Faye and Frank Drummond and strapper Shona Wilson
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The phone has been ringing hot at Cheval Stud in the wake of El Hermano's most recent results.
The resident stallion was a major influence when the Hawke's Bay carnival opened at Hastings with his sons El Pescado and Farm Boy running second and third respectively in the Gr.1 Makfi Challenge Stakes.
A race later, his daughters Meeska Mooska and Underthemoonlight provided the quinella in the Westbury Club Mile.
"That's livened the job up quite a bit," said Frank Drummond, who operates Cheval Stud with his wife Faye. "It's been very enjoyable and we've had a huge response."
The Drummonds also race the Stu Manning-trained El Pescado, who will now return to Hastings for the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate on September 17.
"That's the plan at this stage," he said. "We'll see what happens first, but here's a 75 percent chance he'll he going to the Livamol as well."
The six-year-olds El Pescado and Farm Boy, also a Gr.2 Avondale Gold Cup winner, came from El Hermano's first crop.
"We did a Zed with him and stood him at a $500 booking fee to get his numbers up and it worked – he got 114," Drummond said. "We've gradually stepped his fee up to $4000."
A brother to the Gr.1 Cox Plate winner El Segundo, El Hermano was unraced after the son of Pins suffered a serious injury as a youngster.
"He damaged his front foot and it was initially misdiagnosed and he had fractured a pedal bone," Drummond said.
He was subsequently encouraged to give El Hermano his chance at stud by the entire's co-breeder and part-owner Phillip Brown, of Ancroft Stud.
"Phillip rang me and said you've got to have a look at him," Drummond said. "Shelley Patterson, whose worked for us for 23 years, and I went over and that was it. He's a spectacular individual and such a lovely, personable horse.
"His foot will be his nemesis though. The vets x-rayed it two and a half years ago and said we wouldn't get another season out of him – we've got to make the most of it now and we've got a very good blacksmith for him." – NZ Racing Desk.
The resident stallion was a major influence when the Hawke's Bay carnival opened at Hastings with his sons El Pescado and Farm Boy running second and third respectively in the Gr.1 Makfi Challenge Stakes.
A race later, his daughters Meeska Mooska and Underthemoonlight provided the quinella in the Westbury Club Mile.
"That's livened the job up quite a bit," said Frank Drummond, who operates Cheval Stud with his wife Faye. "It's been very enjoyable and we've had a huge response."
The Drummonds also race the Stu Manning-trained El Pescado, who will now return to Hastings for the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate on September 17.
"That's the plan at this stage," he said. "We'll see what happens first, but here's a 75 percent chance he'll he going to the Livamol as well."
The six-year-olds El Pescado and Farm Boy, also a Gr.2 Avondale Gold Cup winner, came from El Hermano's first crop.
"We did a Zed with him and stood him at a $500 booking fee to get his numbers up and it worked – he got 114," Drummond said. "We've gradually stepped his fee up to $4000."
A brother to the Gr.1 Cox Plate winner El Segundo, El Hermano was unraced after the son of Pins suffered a serious injury as a youngster.
"He damaged his front foot and it was initially misdiagnosed and he had fractured a pedal bone," Drummond said.
He was subsequently encouraged to give El Hermano his chance at stud by the entire's co-breeder and part-owner Phillip Brown, of Ancroft Stud.
"Phillip rang me and said you've got to have a look at him," Drummond said. "Shelley Patterson, whose worked for us for 23 years, and I went over and that was it. He's a spectacular individual and such a lovely, personable horse.
"His foot will be his nemesis though. The vets x-rayed it two and a half years ago and said we wouldn't get another season out of him – we've got to make the most of it now and we've got a very good blacksmith for him." – NZ Racing Desk.