Look at this rabble that were served by the then new season sire Bling it On in its first full year at stud.
Each of these mares are owned either by Luke and Belinda McCarthy and/or their various companies, or by their parents.
The owners of the foals received a $500 Colonial Stallion bonus payment for each.
You wouldn’t pay two cents for any of them.
Between them these thirteen mares have been serviced 64 times and have produced 45 live foals.
Know how many of them actually ever raced?
Six.
Between the six they had 237 starts, and won just 20 races.
One horse – Blissfull Hall, who raced more than a decade ago, won 17 of them.
Would you really pay $2 000 to send your mare to Bling it On?
Did they?
Or this simply a paint by numbers and collect the bonuses job?
I suppose it’s easy for the authorities to find out.
All they need to do is ask for the receipts.