“Troy [Corstens] trains them out of Flemington and they do their initial early work at his farm near Benalla with a lot of hills…”
Baystone Farm’s principal Dean Harvey is a fixture at bloodstock sales throughout Australia — be it weanlings, yearlings or broodmares on offer.
Harvey has established a strong client base through his proven methods of buying and selling racing prospects, both to the domestic and offshore market.
Baystone Farm’s profile in Hong Kong is also growing by the season through a select number of high quality additions to the HKJC racing ranks. The latest example is Invincible Shield, bought by Dean as a yearling before winning four races straight for Tony Gollan in Brisbane, and then being on-sold to Hong Kong where the 4-year-old has recorded a sequence of wins in his first season in training with Francis Lui.
Growing reputation
“Bittercreek was obviously the most expensive, and to be honest, I didn’t think we’d be able to buy him. We loved him as a yearling. He was by Snitzel, good looking, no glitches, it was just ‘tick, tick, tick’.”
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