The Road to Racing: Safwa heads to new breeding career

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Safwa heads to new breeding career

Former promising mare Safwa from Randwick-trainer John O'Shea, had recently retired from racing. 'Safi' as stable-name is heading to her broodmare duties later this year at Darley Australia with champion sire Elusive Quality.

Her career has brought to an end up with an unlucky run earlier this month during the Brisbane Carnival. ‘Safi’ was very bossy at some stage of her career but has always displayed a remarkable skills of being a group horse. This mare showcased a blistering acceleration for a galloper when she is at her peak.

She proved it by winning previously the Epona Stakes (1900m) and Listed JRA Plate (2000m) in Sydney in March and April.

This 5 yr old mare daughter of Danehill and The Lord Ballina mare Showella has a record of 5 wins, 2 placings and had amassed $260,000 as prizemoney in 14 career starts.

Well, it’s quite a luminous career clashing up with unlucky run for instance in the Group 1 The BMW (2400M) which I still believe she shouldn’t have run. Maybe on the other side of the track the ‘boss’ has had his reason for giving her another run within a week just after smashing her opponents in the Epona Stakes. To me there’s only one way to enlighten this blunder: stunning preparation but short-time frame recuperation.

With such scrutiny I do have the priviledge to express my happiness for being her strapper and grooming her at some point. She was a dazzling mare with loads of maturity, calmness, well-behaved and quite a ‘big girl’. I wonder myself who wouldn’t love to have Safwa in their stable? I guess John O’Shea won’t hide himself behind the curtain to spew out the truth. Though he is a man of his truth!

What I have experienced with ‘Safi’ was an absolute myth, something really enchanted, outlandish and imaginary. A horse with who I had urbanized some kind of compassion and profound interest of understanding the philosophy of being an outstanding racehorse. She was my favourite horse in the stable and will still be.

I can’t wait to see what’s going to be the next twist of her breeding career. And I’m definitely keeping an eye on the new breeding season 2007.

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Time has flown so fast these last decades. On the 14th September 2004, I found myself in a new country, with a different culture and different lifestyle. After spending twenty-four years going with the flow of life in Mauritius, now I find myself ”swimming in the vast ocean” in Sydney.
I wasn’t randomly chosen to be here in Australia. But the fate decreed that I should be here instead of somewhere else. Even though I had missed my chance of being in France or Reunion Island in the past but I don’t regret the move towards partaking the Aussie culture. Since October 2004, one dream has come true; being at the University of Technology of Sydney (UTS) by undertaking a degree in Journalism. Merely to become a professional ‘Sport Writer’.
As a matter of fact, it took me years to achieve what I have always wished in life – going to University. Now, I’m re-arranging the puzzle of my achievement so that I can complete the whole part of the puzzle in Sydney nowadays. The long trip I navigate before the plane landed the tarmac of SIA, however, was far more awe-inspiring.
My horizons were limited during 23 years I spent in Pointe-Aux-Sables; a small village on the west coast of Port-Louis, the Capital of Mauritius. My roots, which I take care of, come from this suburb where I was born on 12 March 1981; the Independence Day of Mauritius.
I have grown up in a small family with my dad, Roland, my mum, Monette and my younger brother, Stephane. At the time we were living in a typical modest house in the 80’s, it was such a model family living in a perfect communion of dialogue. During these years, it was such a formal and informal education. I won’t forget along side the ‘street education’ I have internalized so many years ago as a means of experiencing life in its entire dimension. I have shared my whole entire life with them full of happiness, joy, feelings, and compassion in a way of complacency as well as disagreement and arguments.
And I realize now how the success has come to me after a long battle. Finishing my HSC Advanced-level at the age of 20, reaching my best athletic performance at 21 and embracing a career as ‘Sport Journalist’ at 22 in 2002 working for a weekly newspaper, 5-Plus Dimanche and Racetime magazine. The mad thing was having a high status and famous personality where people recognize me through my articles and their impact in the Sports and Horse racing industry. It was the pinnacle of my career.
Knowing how tougher and tougher it was to ‘reach the top’ in a couple of years, but it wasn’t an easy things to achieve. Behind this success, there’s a family; the Jeanne’s family including Sylvio, Annette and their daughter Priscilla has been the catalyst of a massive contribution and devotion throughout my life. Their help, support and guidance have helped me to excel my qualities of making things better and better.
Contented with today and excited about tomorrow, I feel as happy right now as I ever have in nearly twenty-six years. I’m extremely happy about my life here in Sydney, my studies at Uni and my job at the stable...John O’Shea Racing Stables. Who knows I’ll end up like John O’Shea one day! It goes against the grain with me to even have to mention it: what goes on at the heart of my life in Sydney is no-one else’s business, but mine after all. I have proved myself in a way that people haven’t expected things will be a success for me. Now there are a lot of things to be learning yet and I’ll dedicate myself to it. A lot of living for me to do too, I can’t wait to find out what the next twist in my story – will be.