Our Owner of the Month for March went to Bryan and June Terry for their horse Wilander Princess. Bryan supplied us with these comments on Wilander Princess.

I purchased the horse at the Adelaide Magic Million Sales as yearling. I then went back to my wife June and told her we had just got another horse. I thought the filly  was a nice little racy type but June was not impresssed as she had not seen the horse.

During the horse’s first preparation she was found to have a wind problem and to need throat surgery, and I now had a lot of weight on my shoulders.

At her second preparation she showed a lot of promise and to my relief a lot of weight was lifted off me (Thank God !!).

Wilander Princess has now had 2 wins, 2 seconds and 2 fourths from her 8 starts (with winnings now of just over $70,000) and of course she is now OUR HORSE!

(Note Wilander Princess won her maiden at Murray Bridge before going on to win in the city on March)

Although Wilander did not get many mares in foal most of the resulting foals have shown some ability.

Our congratulations go to Bryan and June, who always seem to have a handy one going round. They also own Aussie Host by Host out of Check in Time (which they bred themselves) and which won a Murray Bridge maiden back in January.

Wilander Princess is of course by Wilander out of Brave Accord (Kenny’ Best Pal) and the grand dam is Bravitian by that great old SA sire in Without Fear.

Wilander is an interesting horse himself – he is out of the grand mare Scandinavia dam of four stakes winners including the successful stallion Magnus. Of course Scandinavia’s claims to fame do not stop there as she is also the dam of Helsinge thus making her the granddam of Group 1 winners Black Caviar and All too Hard as well as the promising stallion Moshe.

Wilander was an excellent two and three year old sprinter winning three stakes races including the Schillaci stakes at Group 2 and accumulating prize money of over $350,000. He was retired to stud but fertility problems were such that he served only one season producing only 20 live foals. So far of those 20 foals, 13 have raced and 9 have won at least one race. The best to race so far are Nordic Eclipse and Nordic Empire who have both earned well over $100,000 for their connections. Unfortunately this writer’s own Wilander has proved to be one of his slowest sons unable to place from 7 starts.