NEWS

From The Paddock Newsletter for 18th June 2010

While the death of Red Ransom was a serious loss to the breeding industry, we take a degree of comfort in his undoubted legacy as a sire of sires and as a broodmare sire. Locally-bred sons of Red Ransom in the early stages of their stage careers or about to retire to stud include the Champagne Stakes (gr. I) winner Onemorenomore; Toorak Handicap (gr. I) victor Red Dazzler; All American, successful in the Cantala Stakes (gr. I); BTC Cup (gr. I) scorer Duporth; and Red Arrow, who began his career in Australia but won the Los Angeles Handicap (gr. III) in the U.S.

As Carly Simon sang, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone … and such is the case with the wonderful stallion Red Ransom, who died last year.