In today's Rowe On Monday, Tim Rowe examines Rebel Dane's rollercoaster career at stud, reveals how Bivouac supporters should be on good terms with themselves, canvasses the opinion of steward Fin Powrie and pays tribute to a Magic Millions stalwart.
Mihalyka banks on second coming for Rebel Dane
It’ll be nine years this spring since Rebel Dane won the Group 1 Manikato Stakes, and 12 since he took out the Sir Rupert Clarke for trainer Gary Portelli and owner-breeder Laurel Oak Bloodstock and partners.
But the hardy sprinter, who turns 16 on August 1, can almost be viewed as a first-crop sire, such has been his stop-start career at stud.
The sire of 2022 Golden Slipper and ATC Sires’ winner Fireburn, who was out of his second crop of just 26 foals and whose first foal sold for $3.3 million in Japan last week, has been unable to garner momentum despite being at stud for eight seasons at three different stallion operations.
He started off at Victoria’s Swettenham Stud, where he stood from 2017 to 2019, before two seasons at Glen Eden Stud.
With Fireburn’s emergence in 2022, and that of Group 3 winner Subterranean from his first crop, Laurel Oak’s Louis Mihalyka and Rebel Dane’s co-owners, including Silverdale Farm’s Steve Grant, pitched him to Hunter Valley studs.
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