Rick Jamieson bred Jameka and Black Caviar and is confident stayer winner will run 3200m

THE man who bred Black Caviar also just happened to breed Jameka, and he’s surprised by talk one of the favourites for the Cup won’t stay the trip.

RICK Jamieson, the breeder of Black Caviar is bemused by the commentary surrounding whether another star he has bred Jameka can stay the 3200m of the Melbourne Cup today.

“I’m surprised by the media commentary. They see a speed sire in Jameka’s pedigree in General Nediym and also her sire Myboycharlie was a sprinter and think she’s not bred to stay,” Jamieson said.

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“She was bred to be a stayer. The amateur experts wouldn’t understand what I’ve done and it’s far too difficult to explain my theories.

“There’s very much a staying side to her pedigree. She was never bred to be a speed horse,” he said.

Jamieson, bred Jameka at his Gilgai Farm in Euroa from a mare he raced in Mine Game, who was a winner on Caulfield Cup Day in 2008.

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She had a lot of ability and we thought she was an Oaks filly but she developed bone chips in her knees,” he said.

The one hint Jamieson gave to his breeding success was that he said “it’s all about the mare” when he planned his pedigrees.

Jamieson sold Jameka as a yearling for $130,000 at the Melbourne Inglis Sales but said he almost kept her.

“I sell most of my horses and it came down to making a choice between Jameka and a horse called Alittleloose and I made the wrong choice.”

“Alittleloose is a city class horse but no Jameka. I’m good at breeding them but not picking the ones to hang on to,” he said.

Jamieson already has the distinction of breeding the only Australian bred horse in the Melbourne Cup with Jameka.

Jamieson, who runs Harry The Hirer, said breeding is his hobby but with his success he’s grown his broodmare band from 20 to 30 and now 40. Jamieson said he wouldn’t compare breeding a Melbourne Cup winner with Black Caviar.

Rick Jamieson is confident Caulfield Cup winner Jameka will run the distance. Picture: Colleen Petch

“I can’t compare it. For the moment it’s all about Jameka,” he said.

He said he had sent Mine Game back to Myboycharlie at Vinery Stud, in the Hunter Valley this year.

Jamieson said Black Caviar’s dam Helsinge “had become a problem breeder” at the age of 16 and .

He has sent her to Written Tycoon at Woodside Park, Woodend this season.

He also owns an unraced full sister to Black Caviar called Naturale who has also gone to Written Tycoon.

Jamieson is also racing a three-year-old filly who is a full sister to All Too Hard and a half sister to Black Caviar called Brigite who he said has an enormous amount of ability.

“She’s with Ciaron Maher but she’s got a slight stress fracture,” he said.

Originally published as Rick Jamieson bred Jameka and Black Caviar and is confident stayer winner will run 3200m