Nevele R stud has beaten other leading Australasian Studs to make available champion trotting sire Muscle Mass semen to breeders down under.
The superstar square gaiter’s frozen semen is available to breeders in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time since 2012.
Currently the leading sire of two-year-old trotters in both New Zealand and Australia, Muscle Mass has had a sensational season with his first crop of any real size, siring the first and second (Custodian and Heavyweight Hero) in the Group 1 Harness Jewels 2YO Ruby last month and in Australia he is the sire Group 1 Vicbred Platinum Home Grown Classic winner Illawong Shimmer, Group 2 Tatlow Stakes winner Illawong Byron, as well as the Group 1 place-getter Sval Queen.
In Australia Muscle Mass has had 12 two-year-olds to race for 6 individual winners while “across the ditch” 12 starter for 4 winners.
Muscle Mass was himself a world champion 2-year-old trotter, winning all seven of his juvenile starts including the Final of the American-National Stakes, Bluegrass Stakes and International Stallion Stakes, before injury curtailed his career at three.
A real trotting blue-blood, Muscle Mass is a son of the champion stallion Muscles Yankee out of the thePine Chip mare Graceful Touch, who has also left the Hambletonian winnerMuscle Massive 1:51 ($1,245,297) and Merrie Annabelle Trot and New Jersey Sires Stakes winner Thatsnotmyname 1:55 ($340,730) to date.
His second dam Act Of Grace 1:52.6 ($403,525) was a top flight race-filly, from just two foals Act Of Grace left World Trotting Derby and Zweig Memorial winner Cobol 1:54 ($417,457), along with Graceful Touch.
Muscle Mass’s service fee for the coming season is NZ$7,000 + GST (AU$7,700 incl. GST) and in good news for breeders, Muscle Mass will be included in the Stud’s standard multiple mare discounts. His service fee is payable on positive test.
Bookings will be taken on a first-in-first-served basis and can be made online through the Nevele R website –nevelerstud.co.nz or alternatively by emailing admin@nevelerstud.co.nz, phoning the office 03 349 8627, Nikki Reed 0274 346 401 or from Australia 1800 150 855.
Approved By Dean Baring www.harnessbred.com
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