Our Owner of the Month for May is Bob McKay for his two horses Autumn Sunset and Autumn Street which both won races during the Mt Gambier Cup carnival.

Bob was kind enough to share these details with us.

Thank you for the selecting me as owner of the month for May. Autumn Sunset by Reset/Autumn Jeuney has worked her way through the grades to win the 1200m Open Hcp on Mt. Gambier Cup day, giving her a total of 6 wins, 3 seconds and 1 third from 15 Starts (and prizemoney of almost $72,000).

She is a small lightly framed mare with a big heart and loves her home track at Mt. Gambier where all of her 6 wins have taken place, thanks mainly to her trainer Michael O’Leary and her favourite jockey Emily Finnegan.

Autumn Street by Street Sense/Autumn Jeuney is a promising mare who is lightly raced due to injuries sustained while being broken in as a yearling. She has had 12 starts, 3 wins 2 seconds and 3 thirds (and earnings of over $30,000).

Both these Mares are daughters of Autumn Jeuney (Jeune–Autumn Moments by At Talaq) who I purchased on the Gold Coast as a weanling. She won 2 Group 3 races, a Listed race and was Group 2 placed and I am still breeding from her.

In fact Autumn Jeuney – who won a touch over $320,000 carries the blood of two of Colin Hayes’ Melbourne Cup winners in Jeune and At Talaq both of whom have proved to be very go od broodmare sires.

Unfortunately Autumn Jeuney, after her two promising initial progeny Autumn Sunset and Autumn Street, has been unlucky losing three sets of foals including twin foals.

Bob McKay has had a long and successful association with that wily old conditioner Michael O’Leary and we wish them both further success with these two promising mares.