July 24 – Yarraman Park’s new recruit Foreplay has all the right credentials to make it as a sire and follow in the footsteps of his ill-fated companion Catbird who was sadly put down in the prime of his career this year.

Like Golden Slipper winner Catbird, Foreplay is a brilliantly fast son of Danehill (USA) with a superb pedigree and looks to match, factors that have encouraged many of the Hunter Valley’s most astute breeders to support him last year.

Foreplay covered 108 mares in 2006 including a good number of Black Type performers and producers, plus a host of well-related mares.

His 2006 book included:

STAKES PERFORMERS – Stakes-winning juvenile AMPHRITITE; stakes-winner COURTLY QUALMS; stakes-winner EYES TO SPY; stakes-winner FLICKERING FIRE; stakes-winner PROMISE ME (NZ); stakes-winner TALAGA (NZ); Group Two placed LADY LEXUS; stakes-placed ANOTHER MISTY, stakes-placed FABLED (NZ), stakes-placed INTERBANK and stakes-placed MI CHIAMO.

STAKES PRODUCERS – WORLD GUIDE (NZ), dam of Group Three winner Sirmione; SILAQUE, dam of Group Three winner Coronga; COTTON BAY, dam of stakes-winner Stormcat Academy; SUMMERETO (USA), dam of stakes-winner Roadagain; YASMIN TUDOR, dam of stakes-winner Amphritite; TURTLE DOVE, dam of Group One placed Lords a Leaping; KIRLANI, dam of Group Two placed Hipwell; LITTLE GIRL DANCE (NZ), dam of stakes-placed Danceabeel, Hip Hop; and RIO MELODY, dam of stakes-placed Miz Riocee.

WELL-RELATED – AURILLAC, half-sister by Marauding to Group Two winner Clearly Chosen, BELLA REINA, half-sister by Bite the Bullet (USA) to Group One winners Slavonic, Bedouin and Group Three winner Rockford Bay, BOGANVILLIA (NZ), sister to stakes-winner La Rose Noir; BON ACE (NZ), half-sister to Group Two winner Millennium; CAT LADY , half-sister to stakes-winner Irish Spree; COOL AND COMPOSED , half-sister by Stravinsky (USA) to stakes-winner The Big Chill; CURVACEOUS LADY (NZ), half-sister by Zabeel to Group Two winner Velasco; DAISY FEY, half-sister by Thunder Gulch (USA) to Group One winner Apercu; DAWNFIRE, half-sister to Group One winner Final Fantasy; DYNAMITE LADY, half-sister by Zeditave to stakes-winners Inundate and Bank Burst; ENHEARTEN (USA), half-sister to American stakes-winners Media Girl and As He Pleased; FANTAKAN, half-sister to Group One winner Final Fantasy; GLORAVEGA, daughter of stakes-winner Terevega, a sister to Group One winner La Volta; GOLD GENIE, half-sister to Group Three winner Sky Trist; GREENDALE LASS, half-sister by Alzao (USA) to dual Group One winner Sheer Kingston; HADFA, half-sister by Octagonal to stakes-winner Sonic Quest; HELL IT’S HOT, half-sister by Zeditave to Group Three winner Hot as Hell; LIFE’S A RAINBOW, half-sister to stakes-winner Nessuno; MARIA ANTICA, half-sister to triple Group Two winner Cangronde; MOUNT THE MOON, half-sister by Mighty Avalanche to Group Three winner Defensive Play; NECTAR, half-sister to the dam of Group One winner Unworldly; OCTAVIA BELLE, daughter of Group Two winner Pipiwar; POMME DE HERE, metropolitan winning half-sister to Group One placed Set Up; SCHOOLIES, half-sister by Royal Academy (USA) to Group Three winner Danaides; SERCIDIUM, sister to Group Two winner Beau Heed; SHAG’S SISTER, half-sister to stakes-winner Shags; SHOKERAY, half-sister to stakes-winner Midnight City; STARTS WITH A KISS, sister to stakes-winner Songs of Vienna; TARASOVA (NZ), sister to stakes-winner Captiva; THUNDER THIGHS, half-sister to Group Three winner The Man from Group One winner Lycra; TIMELESS HEART, half-sister to stakes-winner Prophet’s Kiss; VOODOO DANCER, half-sister to stakes-winner Roseville; WORK OF HEART, half-sister to three stakes-placed horses and from Group Two winner Sculpture’s Blue; and ZANZIBARI, sister to Group Two winner Blixen.