You clearly realize the challenge you face, but have an arguably breed-to-race special for you mate, ie Needs Further in Tassie.

First off he's proving very successful if essentially in the Apple Isle, and secondly, he matches really well with the mare from a line-breeding perspective.  Further details if needed.

Over to others.

His first foals have gone for good money in Japan and from what I have heard he is throwing a nice type.

In my unqualified opinion, he is the best son of Deep Impact standing in Australia.

At the top price range, one I don't mind for the mare is Fighting Sun.  My personal feeling is that it the fee is more than you should be looking at, but the mating offers a pretty decent balance and mix of influences.

An unproven sire, and again not the cheapest option, is Holler who I think might prove a reasonable prospect.  Another overall solid mating focusing on a number of speed influences that have proven important in the family.

An underrated stallion moving back to Victoria this season is Ilovethiscity who has gotten a more than handy one in El Dorado Dreaming but that might affect his price this year.  Again breeding to a number of speed influences, but the critical part of this mating to me is that it reinforces the strength of the female line, rather than the relatively unsuccessful Loup Sauvage part of the mare's pedigree.

A more left field prospect is Lucas Cranach.  Breeding towards more of the stamina type influences that we saw successful in the likes of Zonda and Sou'Wester,  it is the type of mating that would be influenced largely on type, and of course we know little about type as far as the mare is concerned.  A weakness of the mating is that it probably reinforces the stallion side of the mare's pedigree, but not one that should be discounted out of hand.

The budget prospect is God's Own.  Again really reinforcing the female side of the mare's pedigree, and a good overall balance.   The stallion has certainly under performed, but has produced plenty of decent runners, so while we aren't expecting a stakes performer, it should be a good chance of being a sound racing prospect for relatively little outlay.

Horses I would look for in the sire are Ribot, Biscay/Bletchingly/ Luskin Star (he has Idomeneo to cross to your line of Sostenuto), Special to cross to your line of Nureyev.  More 1-w to cross to Alycidon (you get that in Luskin Star also) and nothing wrong to looking for other lines of Lalun (Bold Reason is her other son to cross to Never Bend) or Red Briar through Mill Reef and Pipe of Peace who are from the family of Red Anchor.

So you have lots to work with.  As Danehill has Ribot you pretty much can look at most stallions in Australia.  So then try to add in other lines of interest for the above.  That includes any with the Danehill/Zabeel or Danehill/Sadlers Wells or Encosta cross.  Those give you Ribot, Bold Reason (Lanlan) and Special blood.  So very potent to look for.  Plenty of them around.  Even the young stallion Adelaide who doesn't have Danehill has Mill Reef to put in that other cross to your mare.

Now Century and Showdown liked each other and Century is a son of Better Boy by My Babu from the 1-w family.  So while back a bit that blood can be looked at.

One stallion Benfica (Zabeel/Danehill cross) is also from another branch of  the female line of Dykun Vovk so that shows you that the Lonhro line should cross alright.

So as you can see alot of the above have strains of that blood.  Probably the best performed stallion in you price bracket and having some of the above lines would be Artie Schiller with Special, Bold REason and Ribot.

But of the unproven younger brigade I quite like Swear or Stratum Star.  Roman Emperor has an interesting pedigree to cross to her also.

Murtajill is probably the least expensive option, advertised at $4400 but possibly a bit cheaper, and offers an interesting mating with the Rock Of Gibraltar/Riveerman relationship being a feature.  This probably breeds a little away from the female strengths.

Stryker is another at the lower level, advertised at $5500.  Probably a stronger mating with a real focus on the Showdown/Bletchingly influence in the female line of both stallion and mare.

A similar type mating to these two is Al Maher, a son of Danehill.  A pretty well performed stallion, and a solid mating so a good chance of a solid racing prospect.

Another proven stallion in Starspangledbanner who brings in a range of fertility issues unfortunately, and this makes it especially hard with the mare.  Nevertheless, it looks an attractive mating which is largely an outcross which has had considerable success in the family while still focusing more on the Australian lines of the pedigrees.

Of the unproven stallions, Headwater is another with the Danehill/Bletchingly influences that are likely to be attractive.  Again this is the top of the price range, but a good looking mating if you like the stallion.   He is in his third season, and his numbers dropped from season 1 to 2, so probably a deal to be had.

Rubick is the other unproven stallion that has appeal for me.  He brings in a lot of the positives including Rock Of Gibraltar through his female line.  His yearlings have been fairly up and down, and they will hit the track this coming season, so another that is likely to deal on price.  Fertility isn't that great but OK, and a lot comes down to physical factors especially in these two unproven stallions.

The final suggestion is again the left field one looking towards the stamina influences that have been successful in a few family members.  Much harder to find in NSW, but the interesting one here in my view is Roman Emperor.  He is getting a pretty decent record going, especially as his progeny get a bit older, and there is no surprise in that.  It is possible that he might be a better physical match than any of the others, so it will be interesting to hear a bit about the type of mare we are dealing with.

You find that Loulou was much better with 2 wins but still you don't find that stakes class that perhaps is needed to bring the best out in your mare.

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SITW do you know where furnaces is standing in 2019?

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Any information about why Aquis moved Furnaces on after one season?

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Looking forward to getting out to Allandale to see her

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Late foal but we’re in no rush 

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Sadly this branch of the family, since Verdi, has gone off the rails. A lot of injury, bad luck and mismanagement.

In saying that there’s still be a heap of quality come  from other parts of the family. One sold for 950k at the millions. Call sign MAV a group winner in NZ, Dirty a work and Arcadia Queen feature in the pedigree, all be it distantly 

Been a long time since I did a catalogue page as it’s clearly not commercial and more but I’m keeping the faith that I can rectify that