Further to my earlier post with regard to the latest Australian Sires List (progressive for 2009 calendar year), there is not all that much diversity with regard to who the sires are by: # 1 sire (by number of winners) Elite State, # 3 Big Daddy Cool and #7 Surf Lorian are all by Just the Best; #4 Bond, #5 Hallucinate and #9 Where's Pedro are all by Brett Lee; #6 Bombastic Shiraz and #8 Primo Uno are by Black Shiraz and then we have #2 Collision (x Awesome Assassin) and #10 Pure Octane (x Token Prince). All are by Australian bred sires. The mighty brood bitch Elusive Rebel produced 3 of the above, Hallucinate, Where's Pedro and Pure Octane, what a brood bitch and she also produced Carnage who is #20. Sobbing Sal not surprisingly has a pretty fair influence through dogs that are by Brett Lee (who is himself # 12 )and she is also the mother of Big Daddy Cool. Unfortunately, only one of the brood bitches is by an imported sire, Thai Again (Bond) who is by Grove Whisper. With regard to bloolines, the scene does not seem as though it is going to change all that much in the future with El Galo by Where's Pedro, Made to Size, Size Can Matter and Slater all by Surf Lorian and Mantra Lad by Pure Octane. I would like to see a dog or two by an imported sire really make an impact, "it is time".