Mick Goss – living legend
“It’s never easy to admit to the ravages of age, so I’ll confine myself to a confession that horses have been a part of my life since the day I was born, and that this is my 40th year in the commercial stud business.” So says Summerhill CEO, Mick Goss.
The late Omar Sharif once said that what he loved about the “mating game” in the thoroughbred world, was that it was like “playing God”, and by that he was referring to the predestination involved in selecting a stallion to serve a mare.
Playing “God” at this time of the year is the preoccupation of most breeders of racehorses, and at Summerhill it’s a mammoth task involving close on 300 mares, more so with the arrival on the farm of a batch of new stallions whose geno and phenotypes are of an entirely new variety with their own unique attributes.
