Hinchinbrook

He could run his best ever race and not win.

Great run on Saturday

A lot to worry about! - he's a have been! .... Wortel ... (a bit like yourself)!

Another way of doing your dough!

Current Stable - Soul Star & Adivinar + Lady Vega

I agree - or maybe he just was one of these early maturing types? I can't pick it.

The Griffin

Was I the only one that heard his trainer last week, say he was sticking to sprint trips??

He won't be going to the Guineas if that is the case.

wouldn't back him with monopoly money....gawn

He has buckleys at anything under 1600m

Surely gerald does not think he is as good as Melito and that is the type of quality you will need to be winning a group 1 sprint down in Melbourne.

Horses like Hay List, Melito, Hot Danish, All Silent, Eagle Falls, Reward For Effort, Catapulted, Ortensia, Shellscrape and others have got his measure.

If he is not aimed at the Carbine Club Sandown Guineas at least then just spell him now.

Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise

Hinchinbrook Dead

Tara Madgwick - Monday July 16

At the height of his powers and with a full book of mares to cover this spring, Yarraman Park's Hinchinbrook has died tragically today as the result of a broken hind leg.

Hinchinbrook

Foaled and raised at Yarraman Park, Hinchinbrook was turning 11 this year and was at the peak of his career with seasonal earnings of $6.2 million and 100 winners highlighted by five stakes-winners headed by Group I winning filly Seabrook.

"We are devastated as you can imagine," said Harry Mitchell.

"He's been a special horse for us and we believed in him from the start. He wasn't an easy horse to get going as he was not the most fertile, but he kept proving himself and getting that good horse.

"It just breaks your heart, but it's something that happens. It happened to Northern Meteor and it happened to Scat Daddy, as sad as it is, you just have to regroup and move on."

A three-quarter brother to champion sire Snitzel, Hinchinbrook was a top class two year-old that trained on at three to numerous Group I placings and retired at a fee of $16,500.

By champion sire Fastnet Rock, he was the Champion First Season Sire of 2014/2015 defeating Beneteau and Star Witness and his first crop included outstanding colt Press Statement, a dual Group I winner of over $1million in prizemoney.

Hinchinbrook enjoyed a steady rise to sustained commercial success and was fully booked for this spring at a fee of $55,000 after covering books of 148 and 129 mares in his past two seasons at fees of $38,500 and $44,000.

Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!

Not good news. He was one of the better young sires coming through.

Gee Gee wrote:

used up, over raced as a juvenile. Stable should have done a Sebring and taken the offers from studs when he was a 2yo

Raced more than competively as a 4yo. Half to Snitzel. Has done well at stud with only three crops of racing age. Sad loss indeed.

Oh thats sad news. I only saw him a few weeks back and he looked like a million dollars. His owner will be shattered. Such a good horse. And beautiful too.

animals before people.