Incentive for breeders

LEVIATHAN Chinese owner ‘‘Mr Wolf’’ has dangled a $10,000 carrot in front of South Island broodmare owners ahead of the next breeding season.

Billionaire racing enthusiast Lin Lang, who is widely known as ‘‘Mr Wolf’’, had made a landmark offer to purchase the progeny of his stallion, Mongolian Falcon.

It was announced earlier this month that the former group 2winning North Island galloper will stand at Willow Glen Stud, near Waimate, with a $3000 service fee.

Should broodmare owners send their mares to the rookie sire they will soon have the opportunity to turn their investment in to a tidy profit.

Willow Glen Stud has announced that Lin Lang is offering to buy foals by his stallion for $10,000.

He would consider fillies or colts and the only prerequisite was that they had good conformation, studmaster Mike Cooney said.

The landmark offer, which could potentially put hundreds of thousands of dollars in to the South Island breeding industry, was an exciting boost for South Island breeding and Willow Glen Stud, Cooney said.

‘‘It is great for the industry and we are really looking forward to it.

‘‘He is planning to race a lot of them in New Zealand.’’

Lin Lang will not just buy weanlings by Mongolian Falcon; he will also send a big number of his own mares to the stallion, the first of which arrived at the stud from the North Island over the weekend.

‘‘He has got a lot of very wellbred mares arriving here shortly — he is sending down 37 ,’’ Cooney said.

‘‘A lot of the progeny from them will race here. The odd one might go up to China, but he intends on supporting the industry here.’’

Many of those mares are in foal to Lin Lang’s Caulfield Cupwinning stallion, Mongolian Khan.

A knee injury stopped any hopes that Mongolian Falcon could reach the heights Mongolian Khan did on the race track.

In a brief career, the former Donna Logan and Chris Gibbstrained galloper won three of his nine starts.

It is hoped that his convincing win in the group 2 Hawkes Bay Guineas would have caught the eye of breeders.

‘‘If you have a look at his Hawkes Bay Guineas win he beat Ugo Foscolo and Heroic Valour. It was a really good field that day and he won by five lengths,’’ Cooney said.

‘‘He is a Fastnet Rock horse out of a Galileo mare, so he has got a good pedigree, and I think he will mix with a lot of the mares down here really well.’’

❛ A lot of the progeny from them will race here. The odd

one might go up to China, but he intends on supporting

the industry here