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Much has happened since the lastissue of The Harness Edge Down-under, not only in harness racing
but in Australia and New Zealand at large.The once idyllic southern island of
New Zealand has been turned upside downby two major earthquakes (and hundredsof tremors) which will have lasting effectsfor years to come. Experts predict that therebuilding of Christchurch, the capital oftrotting horses in that country, will take atleast a decade.
Every facet of the economy has beentouched by the devastation but it’s theintangible effect it has had on the peoplethat is the most profound. Most Kiwis havebeen resolute in the wake shrugging theirshoulders and just getting on with life…orso they say.
The very fabric of people’s lives hasbeen changed. No longer is there the pas-sive approach to life and the expectationthat things will always be all right. Theword unnerving does not do justice tohow people feel.
While racing officials do their best toput on a brave face, the harness racingindustry has taken a major body shot to goalong with the loss of funds from the slotmachines, diminishing breeding numbers,lack of horses leading to cancelled racecards and short fields and quite simply adeparture of people from the game. Racing
must accept some responsibility for this butit is also a victim of circumstances.
Australia on the other hand has beenalmost living a charmed existence with theexception of the Queenslanders whoendured the terrible floods of earlier thisyear. The economy has been the envy ofthe world albeit being almost entirelydriven by the mining industry.
Today it is not as bubbly as it has beenbut ask America if it would trade places.While it may be cooling off it remains ashining star on the global scene.
The allure of the new found riches inNew South Wales’ racing was dulled withthe revelations of scandal in the industry.That remains to play out in its entirety butnone of the news appears good.
There have been closures of severalbreeding farms which suggests that thisindustry may be following the path of theAmericans. The announced dispersal ofPerretti Farms has had enormous ramifica-tions in that country.
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After 25 years as a specializedNew Zealand Standardbred year-ling sales preparer, Canterbury-based David Shadbolt has foundhis best monetary reward, breed-ing Thoroughbreds for sale inAustralia.
Shadbolt, along with Irishwife Adrienne, run BroadfieldLodge, an agistment farm 20 min-utes south-west of Christchurch,still loves being a yearling salespreparer, but it’s just that, a labourof love.
He almost gave the yearlingpreparations away six years agodue to poor financial returns.
Shadbolt almost walked awayfrom the Standardbred yearling
sales because the bottom linenever stacked up. He kept goingafter making adjustments so itcould provide a basic income.
“Your best staff member gotmore money out of doing theyearling prep than you did at theend of it,” he declared.
He explained that he workedhard for 10 to 12 weeks with aheap of horses, and after payingthe bills, he might earn $6,000.
“Everyone else wants you todo them cheaper and better andyou can’t do it on your own.You’ve got to have staff.
“Yes, we could have paid thestaff less but I’m a strong believerin paying them reasonable money.”
David Shadbolt has approached the horse
business in his own unique way, working with
Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds in New
Zealand and Ireland. By Jeff Scott
THE SHADBOLT
WAY
Shadbolt decided he wouldn’t con-tinue unless he received two per cent ofa yearling’s sale price.
“In doing that we lost clients butwe’ve stuck with it. Initially the long-term original guys that had been with usfor say 10 years went on to one per cent.They had a break going into it and arenow on two per cent as well. That makesit better.”
If he hadn’t found alternative workat a Thoroughbred stud farm in Irelandeach year for a long period, Shadbolt,like so many before him, would have leftthe industry.
He believes many of the best horsepeople in New Zealand move on becausethey can earn more in alternativeemployment.
He says many capable horse peoplehead to the freezing works becausethey’re 30 years of age, usually have awife, two kids, but not a heap of money.
“That’s so sad,” he says.Shadbolt, now 50, remembers what
it was like growing up, getting keenworking with horses, then having to gooff-shore to earn enough money to keepgoing.
After his mother was killed suddenly
in a car accident on New Year’s Eve whenhe was 14, Shadbolt spent school holi-days on the West Coast of New Zealandwith horseman John Coleman and hisfamily, where his interest in horses blos-somed.
“I have not spent enough time backthere over the years,” he says.
Coleman, formerly a neighbour tothe Shadbolt family when living atLadbrooks, near Christchurch, had beengroom to the man-eating Thoroughbredstallion Nightmarch, who had famouslybeaten Phar Lap in the 1929 MelbourneCup.
Shadbolt said it must have been dif-ficult for his father Rex, later a presidentof the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club.
“Imagine if you’ve got other chil-dren seven, nine and 11, and trying torun a farm, and your partner’s gone per-manently, bang, ripped out of your life,”he says.
“It wouldn’t have been the easiestthing in the world. As kids growing upwe probably didn’t recognize that, orwere as helpful as we could have been.”
Coleman, who ran a dairy farm, tooka particular interest when youngShadbolt began working with stallions atRoydon Lodge Stud near Christchurch.
Shadbolt also later worked atNevele R Stud in Canterbury, and hadstints under top Canterbury horsemensuch as Neville Benny, Bill Denton, CecilDevine (six-time NZ Cup winning trainer)
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Now that their two sons are of school age, the Shadbolt family doesn't make the annual trip to Ireland but stays at their Broadfield Lodge located 20 minutes from Christchurch.
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and Sam Ballantyne.“I absolutely loved working on and
off for Cecil Devine, and wish I had gonethere years earlier. He was a great manand I got on with him superb,” Shadboltrecalls.
“He’d say this is how I want you todo it son and if you did it, there wasn’t aproblem.”
Shadbolt had heard others say howhard he was to work for, but generally hebelieves this was because Devine wasmeticulous.
“The best horsemen are meticulouswith their animals,” he says.
“Sometimes some of their gear ortheir properties and things might not behow they’d like to have them, but they
are solely focused on the four-leggedcreature. When they get the good one itachieves its potential.”
During his late 20s, Shadbolt quicklylearned a painful lesson by initially owning a string of bloodstock, up to 14horses he openly admits were “crap.”
He was doing the hard yards prepar-ing yearlings, foaling a few mares, leas-ing out some of his land and taking a fac-tory job at night, all to make ends meet.
Shadbolt was getting nowhere witha hefty mortgage.
He first secured Broadfield Lodgearound 25 years ago.
“Its just under 50 acres now. It wasbigger back then but I had a wife whowanted a hunk of it. I was down to 16
acres with a bigger mortgage at onestage, which covered the house and ninestables.”
He now has 12 horses grazing com-fortably on the property, including a fewoutside mares that are in foal.
After his first marriage ended, hestarted again.
Shadbolt had spent a season work-ing at a stud farm in Ireland and over aChristmas catch-up with one of his Irishcontacts, he was asked when he wascoming back, as there was always a posi-tion for him.
A flatmate spurred him into action,saying why don’t you go?
“I rang back the next day and mymate said actually this farm is goingaverage, but I’ll look round and find youa decent job.
“I said the rules are simple. If youwouldn’t work for them, neither will I.
“He said that made it a short list. Heended up getting me work with hisbrother, who managed a farm.”
Shadbolt would leave after theannual yearling sales in New Zealand forup to five month stints in Ireland eachyear for the breeding seasons there,doing some hard graft to get ahead.
Ten years ago, the day before he had 26 yearlings due tostart being prepared for the sale, Shadbolt suffered a brain hemorrhage which has made him far more apprecia-tive of the live he has.
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“Sometimes within 24 hours I’d begone for five months. If it was busy whenyou left here it was as busy again whenyou got there with a whole bunch ofnew faces and generally a new stallion ortwo,” he notes.
“It was a 20 week contract when Ifirst started and I eventually got itpushed out. I worked at a very nice stud,Derrinstown Stud, Maynooth, Kildare,which was owned by Sheik Hamdan BinRashid Al Maktoum.”
Shadbolt says his stints in Irelandwould support him up for the next year,but returns from the yearling sales never,ever, propped him up.
“I worked as many hours as I couldbecause you got paid by every hour youput in. That’s what we did here at home,but over there you got paid for it,” heexplains.
“The day after I came home I’d takefive years off the mortgage.
“That made a huge difference. Icould still do the yearlings which I loveddoing, but if you were going to have aproblem with an owner over potentialcosts, you didn’t have to do it. It was ahuge change and just took the stress outof it.”
With earnings from his Irishsojourns, Shadbolt also began again witha bloodstock investment, and this timehe was determined to do it professional-ly.
“My aim was I wouldn’t get anotherhorse until I could afford something waybetter up the ladder from what we had,”he says.
He made several attempts to buy amare in England and Ireland, but could-n’t find one that suited.
“I learned a lot of things during theprocess, so after some time we ended upbuying a three-year-old filly (Tambara)from Robert Sangster.
“We bred Tambara in England, senther to Ireland, tripped her down toAustralia and were going to bring her toNew Zealand until we found out she hadto stay in quarantine, because she was infoal, until three weeks after she foaled.
“It cost $90 Australian a day, but bydefault, she ended up living inAustralia.”
Shadbolt says he virtually only got
their money back from the foal, but theywere on their way to a great meal ticket.
Called Upstaged she went on tobecome a Group One performer, runningsecond in New Zealand’s Avondale GoldCup for Melbourne trainer Peter Moody.
The second foal from the Englishmare became a Group Two winner and amultiple listed winner called El Pauji,winning six races and $400,000, while herthird foal was Gently Bently, who was aone-time favourite for the famed two-year-old Thoroughbred classic, theGolden Slipper in Sydney.
“We had sold him. He won about sixbut never hit the highlights. He raced inabout five Group Ones before he won hisfirst race, trying to get enough money torace in the Golden Slipper, but he nevermade it,” Shadbolt remembers.
Then lightning struck when theysold the next foal, a Redoubte’s Choicefilly, for $1.6 million Australian.
“It instantly changed things, payingfor the mortgage, everything. We ownedtwo-thirds of all those foals with TrevorLuke of Christchurch, who had a half-share in former top NZ galloperAlamosa,” Shadbolt says.
Luke was his first client to walk inthe gate at Broadfield Lodge. They laterraced Standardbreds in Australia, includ-ing the good winner Svartsmara (23wins), when former Kiwi horseman JohnLangdon was training in Melbourne.
“Tambara’s still going. We’ve gother in foal to Flying Spur and she has aweanling colt by Flying Spur (brother toEl Pauji).
The Thoroughbred connection waseven more fruitful for Shadbolt and hispartner when they re-purchased El Paujiat a reduced price as a broodmare.
They had sold her for about$120,000 as a yearling. She won $400,000and was sold off the racetrack for some-thing similar.
After Shadbolt found she was put ina broodmare sale, in foal, 12 monthslater, then withdrawn, they purchasedher privately for what he thought was abargain price.
“We didn’t think we’d have enoughto buy her but we made the owner anoffer and it was accepted first off. Theprevious owner dropped a lot of money
on that horse in 12 months,” he notes.“So we’ve got the mother and the
daughter and are breeding from both.”Shadbolt has much international
experience, having also worked for aCanadian-owned farm in the UnitedStates, with Arabian horses, where hesays he learned a lot about presentation.
“They were very intelligent horsesand are super animals. It was a greatexperience working with them,” he says.
Shadbolt believes too many peopleare rearing their yearlings on barley.
“That’s why we have so many jointproblems and growth developmentproblems with horses.
“That’s why you see a lot of horsesat the sales prepped on barley and know
that even if they come up, the probabili-ty is that they’re going to have problemsas two-year-olds with bone chips andstuff like that.”
But he says even when you put thebest efforts in, there is no guarantee ofsuccess.
“You could go out and feed themthe best Dunstan or NRM feeds you couldget, spend the money, and the horse stillbe no bloody good. That’s one of thehard things about the game.”
Shadbolt has built up a both a goodbuying and vendor clientele over theyears at the NZ Yearling Sales, havingprepared such stand-outs as Kates First(Auckland Cup winning mare), New AgeMan and Cigar.
“As long as they pay their bills, thevendors are generally pretty happy thatwe’ve done our best for them.
“As for buyers, we do have some
“Imagine if you’ve seven, nine and run a farm, and yo permanently, ban your life.”
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people that come up and say which one?I’ll say well it’s your money, I’ll sell youthe whole bloody lot.”
Shadbolt got a kick out of selling2010 Victoria Oaks winner CharlotteBrew to a carload of Australians, whoturned up the day after the previousyear’s sales, wanting to talk to him aboutthe buying process, just when he’d hitrock bottom.
“I couldn’t get rid of them for twohours. I said look if you guys are comingback next year, don’t leave it until justbefore the sale starts. Come the daybefore or two hours before the sale andwe’ll go through a few but work outyour price range etc.”
The following year they arrived but
didn’t have a big budget. They missedout on securing anything for the firsttwo days but were keen to return on thethird day, which offered a reduced qual-ity consignment.
“We had one horse in the draft thatwas a nice horse that they might be ableto get, a Mach Three filly, but she had abig haematoma on her chest, which hadbeen drained but didn’t look good.”
Shadbolt told them it would neveraffect her.
“She was a rugged filly. The workwe did with her in the round yard, shemoved real well and never got tired.
“I said to these people she has nofaults, she takes the work, has a toughattitude and yes, I think it will be a race-horse. I don’t know if she will be special,but I think she’ll make a racehorse.”
“I said I think you can buy her withconfidence. I don’t think she’ll win you a
two-year-old race but will make a race-horse, but you may have to wait untilshe’s three or four.
“I think she came up and won twoat two, then won the (Victoria) Oaks inAustralia as a three-year-old.
The same team returned this yearand gave Shadbolt a hat with a montageof their initials on the top.
“They brought me one across. Theycould have come and given me $1,000and said thanks very much, but they gotoff their backsides before they left homeand brought that for me. To me that’sspecial,” he says.
Shadbolt tried to suggest anotherhorse to them on the morning of the 6.3magnitude Christchurch earthquake atthis year’s sales on February 22.
“They were underbidders on twohorses, then didn’t want to be thereafter the earthquake. They’re nice guysand they’ll be back next year.
“The whole way through the year-lings next year we’ll be trying to find alow risk buy for these guys. Whether itssomeone trying to buy one for $10,000or much higher, we try to give themwhat we think is good advice,” he says.
Shadbolt says it’s all part of the serv-ice, like Kiwi trainer Ray Green who wasfirst up to look at his draft at 6:45 a.m.on one of the sale days this year.
After viewing the draft Green askedShadbolt if there was any horse he had asoft spot for.
Shadbolt asked him for his book.Green had already written a note on thepage for the one he liked: ‘nicest in thisdraft.’
“It wasn’t on his list to walk out.He’d already selected him, and laterbought him.”
Green, after buying the AmericanIdeal colt for $25,000, came back to thebox and told Shadbolt: “If we’re rightabout this horse I’m going to have a lotof fun, and if we’re wrong, that makestwo of us.
“There are guys like that goingaround all the time. They’re not scream-ing and roaring. Just doing business andtrying to stay doing business year afteryear and looking after their clients,” saysShadbolt.
“Without them coming back with the
numbers we’re doing its tough work. It’s atough game. You need those guys comingback each year. It doesn’t matter if theydon’t buy one of mine, even if they’re theunderbidder they generally make theother person pay another $1,000.”
He believes if trainers haven’t gotthe time to properly dedicate to theselection process, they would be betterserved enlisting expert opinion fromother experienced horse people to assessprospective purchases before the sales.
Shadbolt says he would like to racemore horses himself, but won’t makeirrational decisions to force himself intothe ownership stakes here.
“Unfortunately I’ve got to listen tomyself,” he says.
This is the reason he only has a 10per cent share in a three-year-oldThoroughbred filly, and a 12.5 percentshare in a three-year-old pacer, racing inNew Zealand. Both have won two raceseach this season.
“Its great fun and they are goodpeople to be with. I like that,” he says.
“But it sickens me that all the otherhorses that we own (eight Thoroughbredsin Australia) are all over there.”
Shadbolt, after aiming to get hismain Thoroughbred interests up in thetop five per cent, believes it is only goodbusiness to have them where they canearn to their full potential.
“If you look after them well andbreed them astutely, then when youhave a payday, you’ll get a respectablepayday to cover up for all the bad luck,misfortune, and other things that hap-pen,” he says.
Shadbolt only wants the best for hisThoroughbred investments in Australia.
“I’d like to keep the same numbers,at this stage, because it’s manageable.
“Any bigger it gets harder to man-age from a distance and you’re only asgood as the people on the ground.
“We pay hugely to have them thereand I don’t mean the people that ownthe farm. I mean the people on the farm.We look after them the best we canwhenever we’re near them,” he says.
“Its not so much the trainer, it’s thekid that mucks out the box and the peo-ple that put the horse to and from thepaddock.
got other children 11, and trying to
our partner’s gone g, ripped out of
“If they are not good people thatput up with your horse, and if they aren’ttaking that extra care, that can be thedifference between the thing working ornot working for you.”
Shadbolt has the same policy withhis staff.
“I don’t think they’ve gone toomany other places where they’ve got anincrease in wages when they’ve movedon. I don’t think we overpay them.They’re paid what they’re worth andthat’s the problem with the industry.”
Shadbolt says there is no easy fix toattract younger people to the harnessracing industry in New Zealand.
“There just has to be more money inthe system and unfortunately it probablyhas to come from the owner.
“If you have a son or a daughterthat works in the local stables at theweekend, you wouldn’t mind as long asthey go to university as well.”
Shadbolt values every day after suf-fering a brain hemorrhage 10 years agoon December 19.
“It was right on the eve of the salespreparations. We had 26 yearlings due inthe next day and my wife knew nothingabout horses.
“She’d been here a year and knewnothing, but I got back and survived andwe’ve carried on.”
The Shadbolts decided not to con-tinue working the yearly Irish stint whentheir boys (now seven and nine) becameof school age, and he says they are fortu-nate enough to have some breathingspace financially.
“We aren’t going to give it all backin a hurry. We have investments and wewant to keep living, have horse involve-ment, but have a life, because you neverknow when its going to come to anend,” he says.
“We’re lucky enough with theresources we’ve got around us. If we arecareful, we can do that.
“Hopefully in 10 years I’d like tothink we’ll be doing less numbers ofhorses and enjoying life.
He’d like to see himself with more
quality stock but he doesn’t know wherethey’ll come from.
“I can’t see me investing in aStandardbred mare in a hurry,” he says.
“I’ve had a few goes. I would breedone every second year, and take the foalto the yearling sales for an interest, but it’sjust harder and harder to make a quid.”
David Shadbolt has devoted his lifeto caring for horses.
He has plied his trade and will con-tinue to do so. He lives in Canterbury,New Zealand, because he loves it.
After a bumpy start, he has madefrugal decisions to get ahead.
He admits its not easy to make a dol-lar in New Zealand with the recessionhaving its effect on the racing industry,but will hang in there for better times.
A man who has learned life’s lessonsthe hard way, if you spot him steppingup his New Zealand bloodstock portfolioyou’d better get on the train too.
His formula for success requires hardwork, sound thinking, and some goodKiwi luck. �
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ART COLONYOne of Artsplace’s fastest and richest 2YO’s
AT TWO
AT THREE
p,2,1:51s; 3,1;51s ($863,750)Beat all the top 2YO’s (Race-timed, 2nd 3, 1:48.8)
Artsplace - Asleep Onthe Beach - Beach Towel
• A wonderfully bred $157,000 yearling purchase with perfect conformation.
• He only missed the top two once in his injury shortened career (13 - 5 - 7 -0) and that was the night he was injured in the final of the Meadowlands Pace.
4 wins and finished 2nd by a nose in the final of the Governors Cup, and second to Well Said (parked the mile) in the final of the Breeders Crown.
• Artsplace has the hottest siring sons in Australia, e.g. ART MAJOR, MODERN ART, GRINFROMEARTOEAR.
• Bottom line broodmare sire excellence, BEACH TOWEL, CAM FELLA, ALBATROSS, BYE BYE BYRD
He finished 2nd to Well Said in the final of the North American Cup, pacing his own mile in 1:48.8
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“ART COLONY was a gorgeous yearling I just had to have him whatever the price ($157,000). Bred beautifully, perfect manners, perfect gait, needed no boots, 62inch hopple, beat the best colts, fought tough from bad draws, last quarters in 26. Should have won $2m but for going amiss in Meadowlands Pace.”
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ON HIS WAYBACK TO
LODDON VALLEYSTUD FROMSERVING 104
MARES IN CANADA
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