Many breeders are raving about a young stallion and his progeny in North America after three consecutive seasons of getting full books of 180 mares. Sadly, Sunshine Beach may have his ticket to New Zealand for this current breeding season cancelled as early as Monday. Alabar will be advised of the owner’s intentions early next week. Unfortunately, the full and closed books in the north have not been duplicated here in the southern hemisphere.
With service numbers of just
| Year | Aus | NZ | NA |
| 2015 | 88 | 57 | 180 |
| 2016 | 73 | 20 | 180 |
| 2017 | 180 |
I’m the first to admit I haven’t spent a lot of time analysing this stallion for the type of mares he could do very well with in this country. A mare l bought for a mate last year in the west, who Sunshine Beach matches perfectly has been my only connection to this stallion. The young daughter of Rock n Roll Heaven is still racing at the moment, and will be joined this season if the sire is available.
In the last 10 days, a couple of other breeders have called in on the same Sunshine Beach topic. The first is a highly respected Group 1 breeder who is very bullish about this stallion. The match with his Mister Big mare has him extremely excited and l know he has the mare booked with Alabar already.
Another mate called last weekend to ask if booking four mares to Sunshine Beach would be a good idea. The answer l gave him was simple – if the mares are a great match, go for it.
What l do know is that Sunshine Beach is from the great U20 mare, Light Up
Offspring of Light Up (1994)
| Sunshine Beach | 2010 | H | 977,438 USD | Somebeachsomewhere | Artsplace |
| Warrawee Flare | 2001 | M | 609,019 USD | Northern Luck | Artsplace |
| Safe Harbor | 2008 | H | 602,668 USD | Village Jolt | Artsplace |
| Western Moonlight | 2007 | M | 366,091 USD | Western Hanover | Artsplace |
| Four Starz Lights | 2003 | G | 192,199 USD | Cams Card Shark | Artsplace |
| Real Shiny | 2005 | G | 133,396 USD | Real Desire | Artsplace |
| Luminary | 2002 | H | 41,853 USD | Rustler Hanover | Artsplace |
| Warrawee Dazzle | 1999 | M | 26,146 USD | Dexter Nukes | Artsplace |
| Summer Sunlight | 2009 | M | 21,359 USD | Rocknroll Hanover | Artsplace |
| Warrawee Cammy | 1998 | M | 15,990 USD | Camluck | Artsplace |
| Sunshine West | 2013 | G | 4,775 USD | Western Ideal | Artsplace |
| Shes Shiny | 2006 | M | 2,237 USD | Allamerican Native | Artsplace |
This is what Alabar have about this well-bred , great looking sire, on their website:
Sunshine Beach is a World Champion son of Somebeachsomewhere from the great Golden Miss family.
Next to the $3 million winner Captaintreacherous, Sunshine Beach is the greatest son to date of Somebeachsomewhere.
In fact his crowning glory is that he is the first horse ever to defeat the great Captaintreacherous. He did so as a three-year old in the $500,000 Battle of the Brandywine where he led with Captaintreacherous
sitting outside him. At the end of a titanic stretch duel Sunshine Beach had his nose in front in a world record equalling 1:47.8.
A spectacular individual, Sunshine Beach is the best performer from the prolific Artsplace mare Light Up – the dam of five in 1:53 and four $350,000+ winners that also include Warrawee Flare (1:50.6,
$609,019), Safe Harbor (1:50.2, $502,688) and Western Moonlight (p, 2, 1:52.6, $366,091).
Other very good sires out of this U20 family that many Aussie breeders would recognise are Four Starzzz Shark, Grinfromeartoear, Safely Kept, Panorama, Real Desire, Rocknroll Hanover and Tell All.
If Tom and his management team from the USA are reading this, l have a suggestion. Yes, cancel that ticket to New Zealand but book Sunshine Beach a first class ticket to Australia, where he will get a much bigger book, and far stronger chance of making a real success here. He might just get some really nice mares that he could click with.
Fingers crossed will be able to announce some positive news early next week.
Approved By Dean Baring www.harnessbred.com
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