Date posted January 4, 2010 | Posted by Brian Russell | Filed under
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ValixirMuswellbrook, NSW (January 4th, 2010) - CONSISTENT source of winners, Fred Peisah’s Lomar Park at Werombi in the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Sydney, in recent weeks has been represented by three good 3-year-olds who are from one of the stud’s celebrated foundation families and who have relations in the catalogue for the Inglis Sydney Classic yearling sale on January 24 and 25.
Two of them, both graduates of the Classic sale, a major outlet for Lomar Park yearlings, have been spring stakes performers King Pulse (three starts, two wins, including the Harrolds Fashion Plate at Caulfield, and second Group 1 Ascot Vale Stakes at Flemington) and Kid Choisir (a Perth winner at two and three; five wins, two stakes, in nine outings).
Their spring efforts have been followed more recently by the eye-catching efforts of Lomar Park bred filly Rock the Moment in Adelaide. A Listed winner in Tasmania and second in their Magic Millions 2YO Classic, she has emerged in the past three weeks as another stakes prospect for the Kavanagh stables with two wins at 1200m at Morphettville, the first by 5-1/4 lengths and the second – on Saturday – by 2-3/4 lengths.
Rock the Moment is by the Coolmore shuttled Ireland bred Danehill juvenile star and England Two Thousand Guineas winner Rock of Gibraltar and from another distinguished Lomar Park bred product in Moment’s Pleasure, a daughter of one of the stud’s successful sires, Archregent, one who is also the maternal grandsire of Takeover Target.
A winner of the STC Reisling Slipper Trial-Gr.2 and Newcastle Coca Cola Classic-Gr.3 and runner up in the STC Winfield Classic-Gr.1, Moment’s Pleasure has had all her six runners win metropolitan races.
She is from Reason to Smile, a good Sydney winner, AJC Flight Stakes fourth and half-sister to the dams of sprint stars Razor Sharp (15 wins, VRC Newmarket twice, AJC Challenge Stakes three times), Steel Blade (11 Sydney wins, including AJC Challenge Stakes; second AJC Epsom, George Main Stakes, Galaxy), Super Elegant (19 wins, BTC Doomben 10000, SAJC Goodwood Handicap), Elegancy (12 wins, SAJC Angas Brut Classic and nine in Melbourne) and Mister Elegant (14 wins, MRC Victoria Handicap and five others in Melbourne).
All these horses were bred and sold by Lomar Park. They also bred but retained Amiable Lady, an unraced half-sister to Razor Sharp and Steel Blade who has added to the stud’s great production and sale record by becoming the grandam of Kid Choisir and third dam of King Pulse.
These two Lomar Park bred stakes horses were got by sires outside the stud, while Fred Peisah was awaiting a new one from overseas. That sire is Valixir, a prominent France juvenile and classic performer and one of the world’s leading milers at four who has 11 first crop yearlings in this month’s Inglis Classic sale catalogue. Six from Lomar Park include a half-sister to Kid Choisir and to the dam of King Pulse.
The first Valixir yearling in the Classic sale, lot 7, is a colt on account of Lomar Park out of Encounter, a mare by their good Danehill sire Arena, breeding that produces a pedigree very similar to that possessed by Danehill Dancer but in reverse. Danehill Dancer is by Danehill and from mare by Sharpen Up, paternal grandsire of Valixir.
