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6 The Game, January 2009 Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
Multiple Graded Stakes Winner, Marcavelly to stand at Colebrook
a new stakes record in the Hill Prince (G3) going 1m in 1:33.” remarked John Burness, owner of Colebrook Farms Stallion Station.
Marcavelly is from the rst crop
of his champion sire, Johannesburg, earning $332,963 in 8 starts. Off the board in only one start, Marcavelly has won 4 and place second in three, all in stakes company.
In 2007 Johannesburg sired 180 starters, 62 winners, 6 Stakes winners, with total earnings of $3,992,869, including Scat Daddy (G1), Teu esberg (G2), Baroness Thatcher (G3), Marcavelly (G3), La Traviata (G3), and Sageburg (IRE).
Marcavelly is out of a full sister to multiple G1 winner Hidden Light, who is the dam of BC Champion Artie Schiller.
Husbands, Casse and Stronach on Top at Woodbine
Marcavelly (Johannesburg - Dark Jewel, by Majestic Light), a multiple graded stakes winner, will stand at stud for the 2009 season at Colebrook Farms Stallion Station in Ontario.
(G3) and Central Bank Transylvania Stakes (G3) in 2007.
For the second consecutive season, the dynamic duo of jockey Patrick Husbands and trainer Mark Casse were the leaders in their respective categories at Woodbine.
Ahmed Zayat purchased Marcavelly for $340,000 at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder sale of select two-year-olds in training. Marcavelly went on to win the Continental Mile Stakes in 2006, followed by the Hill Prince Stakes
“I am very excited to stand Marcavelly in Canada. We are rm believers in the Canadian program
and where it is heading,” commented Ahmed Zayat, “I could not have found a better place for him to start his career at stud than Colebrook Farms Stallion Station.
Husbands won 166 races and Casse had 17 wins more than his nearest competitor with 75 trips to the winners circle.
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Marcavelly was a phenomenal racehorse at 2 and 3. He is the total package with looks, talent, pedigree and class.”
This was the fth Woodbine riding title for Patrick (1999, 200, 2002 and 2007) who also had the highest earnings of the colony with $9,433,918.
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