STAR BLACK MINSTRIL- FS, the famous sire son of YARRANOO STAR- IM
YARRANOO STAR- IM
The number seven and eight positions in our most influential mares is another mother and daughter combination. YARRANOO STAR- IM, the daughter, with over 3,500 descendants comes in number seven.
YARRANOO STAR- IM was used by the McLennans around their properties and proved a very useful mare. She was by a stallion that was later gelded and became a very well known performer, Sheedys Radar. This horse was by the Foundation Sire BALD HILLS ECHO- FS, and out of the Foundation Mare YARRANOO BANGLES- FM. The breeding for these two horses was obtained when Ventry McLennan purchased horses from the famous Hayden Stud in the Upper Hunter Valley. The dam of YARRANOO STAR- IM was SISTER MONTY- FM. The sire of SISTER MONTY- FM, Starlight, was also purchased from the Hayden Stud. This gave YARRANOO STAR- IM a double cross of Young Valais through her sire and dam line.
YARRANOO STAR- IM produced two unregistered colts before producing her first registered foal, a filly called MYRA. Jim Rammage purchased MYRA and after a very successful all-round career in polocrosse, campdrafting and as a pick up horse, she then became a highly successful broodmare. Many of the Paul and Jane Stone( nee Rammage) horses trace back to this mare.
YARRANOO STAR- IM’ s next foal was the immortal STAR BLACK MINSTRIL- FS. This stallion has became one of the most sought after sires in recent decades, and is a Foundation Sire of the Australian Stock Horse Stud Book.
Her last foal was a gelding YARRANOO STAR AFFAIR a successful galloway hack. It is interesting that STAR BLACK MINSTRIL- FS was born in 1971 and her next foal was born in 1986. So what was YARRANOO STAR- IM doing in the intervening 15 years? Well YARRANOO STAR- IM was teaching all of Ken McLennan’ s children to ride. As Maxine Brooks( nee McLennan) said,‘ She was the most beautiful tempered mare’.
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