Vale, Naturale

Tara Madgwick - Saturday Aug 30

On our recent trip to Victoria for the stallion parades we had the pleasure of staying at Gilgai Farm where we met the lovely Naturale, the unraced sister to Black Caviar, who had a difficult life and achieved fame and fortune as the dam of champion sire Ole Kirk.

Ole Kirk has given Naturale a measure of immortality following a less than perfect life.

Gilgai Farm announced the passing of Naturale on Friday due to ongoing health issues that have plagued the mare since she was a foal as detailed by Stud Manager Kelly Skillecorn when he was a guest on our podcast Tara Talks Racing earlier this year. Click here to listen to the story of Naturale.

Naturale produced Ole Kirk as her very first foal and was just 13 years of age at the time of her death. Her health issues meant she produced just four foals in her life and the last was back in 2022, a filly by Written Tycoon called Float On.

She has had a couple of short preparations with Team Hawkes and then Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman, but to this point the three year-old is unraced.

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Naturale produced one other filly, the brilliant Not a Single Doubt sprinter Gimme Par, who was retained by Gilgai Farm and won the Group III MRC Quezette Stakes in 2021.

She is now at stud and has a yearling filly by Written By and recently produced another filly by the Widden Stud based son of Ole Kirk’s sire Written By.

Gilgai Farm have a special graveyard for members of the Helsinge family and Naturale has more than earned her place in this legendary dynasty.

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