Jeu De Cartes(Stravinsky-Prized Gem by Prized)looks set to join the exodus of our better racemares to a foreign based breeding career, with news this week that her sale is close to being finalised to an undisclosed off shore buyer.
A certain stallion called Danehill helped, and it was probably inevitable with global economics, but our Australian neighbours really got a jump on us when they started picking off our better racemares in the late 1980's. The trend has continued with the likes of Coolmore, Jim Fleming, Paul Makin and co picking the eyes out of our best fillies and mares in more recent times.
Just shy of top class Jeu De Cartes is nonetheless an athletic mare who has proven herself a consistent and versatile performer at open handicap and Pattern level over three seasons of racing. Her best win came in the 2012 Group 2 Counties Cup over 2100m.
Jeu De Cartes is half sister to dual group 1 winning stallion Nom Du Jeu from the Group 1 Kelt Stakes winner Prized Gem. The roots of the family lie in the deep south and it's the kind of tough, staying family that has underpinned our industry for so long and that needs to be nurtured if the industry wants to continue to be taken seriously as a breeder of high class staying horses .
Hopefully the connections of Rudd Awakening, Bounding, Recite, Fix, Xanadu, Final Touch and co can be convinced in the future of the local breeding industry. I hope so.
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