Australian breeding industry has this (IMO) unhealthy lust for breeding speed horses, so much so the trend to find stayers overseas is a growing one - one S P O'Donnell is probably the most well known and most active in this pursuit.

We try and attract overseas runners to our big races, which traditionally are over a mile and greater, yet the breeding seems aimed at horses that are to run upto 1400m...and very fast. Our stayers seem to be keeping them at bay, but don't forget West Coast, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Port Adelaide have all conquered the flying caper and taken the AFL Premiership Cup home in recent time and adapted in a very short time period.....

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