Who Is John Messara?
I did a little research on John Messara on the world wide web to see why John Messara could get a Permit when nobody else could??? These are a couple of snippets I found that you might find interesting......
*SOME OF HIS PARTNERS IN THE HORSE INDUSTRY:Gerry Harvey, John Messara and Muzzafar Yaseen are all highly successful in business, racing and breeding. They share a passionate commitment to the Australian racehorse, and all four of the stallions we stand at Plaintree were individually bred and raced by them.
*There was plenty of criticism when Arrowfield paid $10 million for a half share in Redoute’s Choice, but Messara now controls 50% – and full standing rights (the other 50% is owned by the stallions breeder, Mr Muzzafar Yaseen) – of one of the most valuable stallions in the world.
* He later graduated in commerce from the University of NSW, and went on to start his own stock broking company.
* his email address is: jmm@arrowfield.com.au
*The love of horse racing can be pinpointed for the current career of a gambling industry high flyer. Alas, not in racing but in the poker machine field. A comment from John Rouse “Strange as it sounds,” he says, “but it was at the AJC where the staggering size of the Australian gaming industry, including the slot machine segment, really hit me.”
He approached an old friend, John Messara, with the idea of a new slot machine company. Possibly the biggest breeder of race horses in Australia, John Messara was interested. He was also chairman of the Kolback Group, a waste management company which seemed ideal as a vehicle to buy an existing poker machine manufacturer.
The choice fell on Vidco, then owned and managed by the highly experienced Brian Frost and in July 1999 the $14 million deal was sealed. Kolback and through that John Messara and John Rouse, were now in the slot machine business.
A few months later their new company, called Stargames, managed to sign a cross licence agreement with the huge Chicago-based WMS (Williams) slot machine manufacturer and soon after that clinched a development agreement with Melbourne’s Crown Casino to develop a series of electronic table games.Stargames was in business.
*27 August 2006: Arrowfield Stud, home of Australia’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice and eight other celebrated stallions, is the new sponsor of the Blue Diamond Stakes - Victoria’s premier race for two-year-olds. The three-year sponsorship, which commences in 2007, was jointly announced today by Arrowfield Managing Director, John Messara, and Melbourne Racing Club Chairman, Peter Young, at the stud’s annual Stallion Parade Day at its world-renowned property at Scone in the Hunter Valley.
The association extends to the full five-race Blue Diamond series during Caulfield’s Summer Classics, commencing with the two $100,500 Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Previews (Listed) for colts and geldings and fillies over 1,000 metres at the Australia Day on 26 January, followed by the $125,750 Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Preludes (Group 3) for colts and geldings and fillies at the C.F. Orr Stakes meeting on 10 February, and culminating in the $1,015,000 Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Stakes (Group 1) over 1,200 metres on 24 February.
* John Messara is the President of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, so he knows a lot about the impact equine flu will have on breeding. He's also in the racing game with Alan Jones, he and John Messara are in a syndicate that owns the most prized stallion in Australia.Redoute's Choice is now at John Messara's Arrowfield Stud in the NSW Hunter Valley.The stallion is a phenomenon - over the next 10 years it's estimated he could earn half a billion dollars. Every time he "covers” a mare, Redoute's Choice earns his owners three hundred and thirty thousand dollars.L ast year he serviced 192 mares and Alan Jones has 4 per cent of the syndicate.
2GB's station owner John Singleton holds 2 per cent.
* LEADING breeder John Messara has dismissed a growing push to use artificial insemination should the equine influenza saga stretch beyond September.
The standardbred industry has used AI for years. Given AI does not require a mating between mare and stallion -- impossible with the lock-down of shuttle sires at two quarantine centres, and the movement of all horses -- many believe it should be part of a salvage plan.
* Influential owner/breeder John Messara said there was an opportunity for racing to recover from the EI crisis provided industry participants remained resilient and there was some "timely decision-making from the NSW Government".
"Because racing is such a regulated sport, a positive outcome will require the involvement of the State Government," Messara said.
*One of 'Miss Finland's' part-owners is John Messara. Top mare Miss Finland has been allowed to travel to Melbourne from Lindsay Park stud in South Australia for tomorrow's races, after leading trainer David Hayes received special travel permits.
The Hayes stable needed clearances from both Victorian and South Australian officials for the horse to be moved interstate, because of the outbreak of equine influenza Hayes was disappointed that Miss Finland's owners, John Messara and Alan Jones were not on hand to share the experience of her first win at weight for age..NO WONDER DAVID HAYES COULD ALSO GET A PERMIT TO MOVE HER!
* Messara is a pioneer in bringing shuttle stallions to Australia and a pioneer in forging partnerships with Japanese breeders. ISN'T THAT WHERE EI CAME FROM - JAPAN? (THEY CURRENTLY HAVE EI DON'T THEY?)
* Tuesday, 14 November 2006: Aushorse will now be led by a group of 7 directors comprising; Aushorse Chairman John Messara (Arrowfield Stud)
* ALLAN JONES INTERVIEWS JOHN MESSARA (CONVENIENT) - Click Here
* Messara added the government should compensate part of the vaccination.
He said he was desperate not to see EI spread south into Victoria and has extra reason to see the Melbourne spring carnival go ahead given his champion horse Miss Finland is set to sweep all before her.
* JOHN Messara, the principal of Arrowfield Stud and owner of champion Miss Finland, is the overwhelming public choice as horse racing's most influential person.
And the sport's powerful breeders bloc clearly has the loudest voice in the racing industry with five breeders in the top seven in a revised list as voted by readers.
"The most powerful person in racing today is John Messara," wrote one respondent, who requested anonymity due to his close links with the racing and breeding industry. "He has influence right throughout the industry and even in politics."
Another reader pointed out that Messara's breeding and racing operation is not only hugely successful, he also has friends in "all the right places".
"There is no one in racing with John Messara's contacts. He gets his message across at all levels of the racing industry and in the (State) Government, and has influential friends and business associates like Alan Jones on 2GB," he added.
NOT SUCH A CO-INCIDENT ON WHO GETS THE PERMITS, GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT'S ETC!!
Maureen NSW.
*SOME OF HIS PARTNERS IN THE HORSE INDUSTRY:Gerry Harvey, John Messara and Muzzafar Yaseen are all highly successful in business, racing and breeding. They share a passionate commitment to the Australian racehorse, and all four of the stallions we stand at Plaintree were individually bred and raced by them.
*There was plenty of criticism when Arrowfield paid $10 million for a half share in Redoute’s Choice, but Messara now controls 50% – and full standing rights (the other 50% is owned by the stallions breeder, Mr Muzzafar Yaseen) – of one of the most valuable stallions in the world.
* He later graduated in commerce from the University of NSW, and went on to start his own stock broking company.
* his email address is: jmm@arrowfield.com.au
*The love of horse racing can be pinpointed for the current career of a gambling industry high flyer. Alas, not in racing but in the poker machine field. A comment from John Rouse “Strange as it sounds,” he says, “but it was at the AJC where the staggering size of the Australian gaming industry, including the slot machine segment, really hit me.”
He approached an old friend, John Messara, with the idea of a new slot machine company. Possibly the biggest breeder of race horses in Australia, John Messara was interested. He was also chairman of the Kolback Group, a waste management company which seemed ideal as a vehicle to buy an existing poker machine manufacturer.
The choice fell on Vidco, then owned and managed by the highly experienced Brian Frost and in July 1999 the $14 million deal was sealed. Kolback and through that John Messara and John Rouse, were now in the slot machine business.
A few months later their new company, called Stargames, managed to sign a cross licence agreement with the huge Chicago-based WMS (Williams) slot machine manufacturer and soon after that clinched a development agreement with Melbourne’s Crown Casino to develop a series of electronic table games.Stargames was in business.
*27 August 2006: Arrowfield Stud, home of Australia’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice and eight other celebrated stallions, is the new sponsor of the Blue Diamond Stakes - Victoria’s premier race for two-year-olds. The three-year sponsorship, which commences in 2007, was jointly announced today by Arrowfield Managing Director, John Messara, and Melbourne Racing Club Chairman, Peter Young, at the stud’s annual Stallion Parade Day at its world-renowned property at Scone in the Hunter Valley.
The association extends to the full five-race Blue Diamond series during Caulfield’s Summer Classics, commencing with the two $100,500 Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Previews (Listed) for colts and geldings and fillies over 1,000 metres at the Australia Day on 26 January, followed by the $125,750 Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Preludes (Group 3) for colts and geldings and fillies at the C.F. Orr Stakes meeting on 10 February, and culminating in the $1,015,000 Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Stakes (Group 1) over 1,200 metres on 24 February.
* John Messara is the President of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, so he knows a lot about the impact equine flu will have on breeding. He's also in the racing game with Alan Jones, he and John Messara are in a syndicate that owns the most prized stallion in Australia.Redoute's Choice is now at John Messara's Arrowfield Stud in the NSW Hunter Valley.The stallion is a phenomenon - over the next 10 years it's estimated he could earn half a billion dollars. Every time he "covers” a mare, Redoute's Choice earns his owners three hundred and thirty thousand dollars.L ast year he serviced 192 mares and Alan Jones has 4 per cent of the syndicate.
2GB's station owner John Singleton holds 2 per cent.
* LEADING breeder John Messara has dismissed a growing push to use artificial insemination should the equine influenza saga stretch beyond September.
The standardbred industry has used AI for years. Given AI does not require a mating between mare and stallion -- impossible with the lock-down of shuttle sires at two quarantine centres, and the movement of all horses -- many believe it should be part of a salvage plan.
* Influential owner/breeder John Messara said there was an opportunity for racing to recover from the EI crisis provided industry participants remained resilient and there was some "timely decision-making from the NSW Government".
"Because racing is such a regulated sport, a positive outcome will require the involvement of the State Government," Messara said.
*One of 'Miss Finland's' part-owners is John Messara. Top mare Miss Finland has been allowed to travel to Melbourne from Lindsay Park stud in South Australia for tomorrow's races, after leading trainer David Hayes received special travel permits.
The Hayes stable needed clearances from both Victorian and South Australian officials for the horse to be moved interstate, because of the outbreak of equine influenza Hayes was disappointed that Miss Finland's owners, John Messara and Alan Jones were not on hand to share the experience of her first win at weight for age..NO WONDER DAVID HAYES COULD ALSO GET A PERMIT TO MOVE HER!
* Messara is a pioneer in bringing shuttle stallions to Australia and a pioneer in forging partnerships with Japanese breeders. ISN'T THAT WHERE EI CAME FROM - JAPAN? (THEY CURRENTLY HAVE EI DON'T THEY?)
* Tuesday, 14 November 2006: Aushorse will now be led by a group of 7 directors comprising; Aushorse Chairman John Messara (Arrowfield Stud)
* ALLAN JONES INTERVIEWS JOHN MESSARA (CONVENIENT) - Click Here
* Messara added the government should compensate part of the vaccination.
He said he was desperate not to see EI spread south into Victoria and has extra reason to see the Melbourne spring carnival go ahead given his champion horse Miss Finland is set to sweep all before her.
* JOHN Messara, the principal of Arrowfield Stud and owner of champion Miss Finland, is the overwhelming public choice as horse racing's most influential person.
And the sport's powerful breeders bloc clearly has the loudest voice in the racing industry with five breeders in the top seven in a revised list as voted by readers.
"The most powerful person in racing today is John Messara," wrote one respondent, who requested anonymity due to his close links with the racing and breeding industry. "He has influence right throughout the industry and even in politics."
Another reader pointed out that Messara's breeding and racing operation is not only hugely successful, he also has friends in "all the right places".
"There is no one in racing with John Messara's contacts. He gets his message across at all levels of the racing industry and in the (State) Government, and has influential friends and business associates like Alan Jones on 2GB," he added.
NOT SUCH A CO-INCIDENT ON WHO GETS THE PERMITS, GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT'S ETC!!
Maureen NSW.
posted by Horse Deals Reader at
1:39 pm
3 Comments:
WOW - POWERFUL STUFF. I had always had respect for Alan Jones & his views, but now???
talk about unfair, to us that are on the border and can't move inter sate. well that means lica falcon should be able to go to the cup carnival as well.
louise
Yep, Leica Falcon - he is one of the little guys obviously!!
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