Darley stallions had a big day out at Caulfield on Australia Day with the stud’s stallions siring three of the five stakes races on the eight-race programme.
Lonhro’s rising star
Denman claimed the
Listed Zeditave Stakes,
Xaar’s tough son
Joku won the John Dillon Stakes (registered name: Barton) and
Reset’s bonnie daughter
Set For Fame claimed the Kevin Hayes Stakes (registered name: Boronia Stakes).
Trained at the course by Victoria’s leading trainer, Peter Moody,
Set For Fame was turned out in superb condition when never headed in the
Listed event.
Sent straight to the front by Luke Nolen,
Set For Fame repelled the challenge of Sydneysider Dystopia a sister to Golden slipper winner
Stratum (Redoute’s Choice – Bourgeois by Luskin Star), and easily held off the challenge of race favourite
Aloha (Encosta de Lago – Tennesee Midnight by Danehill) to win easing down by 2 ½-lengths.
Dystopia held on for third another three-quarters-of-a-length away.
Set For Fame
Set For Fame kick-started her career with a 7-length win at Hamilton on April 18. Given a rest after disappointing, when favourite, behind Extra Zero in the Anzac Stakes at Flemington, Set For Fame came back to run second to Jolie Brise at Sandown last August.
Stepping out again a fortnight later, she finished runner-up again in the Tranquil Star Stakes behind subsequent Group I 1000 Guineas winner Irish Lights. Unfortunately, for connections, during the running of the Tranquil Star, Set For Fame bled and received a mandatory three month ban.
Moody said, “I thought she’d win the Thousand Guineas,”
“It was a huge disappointment when she bled. She’s got the scope to be very good.”
“She’s always been in our top echelon, and I believe she’s a top class filly in the making.
“I think this filly definitely has the scope to get out over the mile. We could go the Guineas or the fillies’ races before a race like the Coolmore in Sydney but I’ll be careful with her because of her bled last spring.”
Each year Peter Heagney, William Inglis’ Victorian Managing Director, and the Herald Sun’s Rod Nicholson, get together and run a competition for readers of the paper. Inglis kindly donate a share in a yearling that includes insurance and training fees for two years.
One of Melbourne’s top ten trainers is given the task of selecting a yearling (Heagney draws a name from a hat) from the Premier sale, and in 2008, Heagney drew Moody’s name, while Nicholson drew Russell Artis’ name from the many Sun Herald entries.
Moody selected Set For Fame, for the competition, from the draft of Fulmen Park, and paid $75,000 for the first foal of the maiden winning Dehere mare, Northpoint.
Northpoint is out of the dual stakes winner Northern Bisque (by Tolomeo) and hails from a family that produced one of the best stallions to stand in Australia, Bletchingly (by Biscay).
Northpoint has not had a foal since Set For Fame and was covered by the Group I winning sprinter, Magnus (by Flying Spur) last year.
Raced by a syndicate of ten people that includes Set For Fame’s breeder Robert Crabtree, Moody’s wife Sarah and his Racing Manager, Jeff O’Connor the fillies win will be welcomed by the vendors of yearlings by Reset (Zabeel – Assertive Lass by Zeditave) at the forthcoming sales.
In New Zealand, at the New Zealand Bloodstock’s premier sale to be held at Karaka (Feb 1st and 2nd), Reset has two yearlings on offer.
Back in Australia, the following month he has seven yearlings listed for sale at the Premier yearling sale in March (1st - 4th) and another two yearlings are catalogued for sale at the Australian Easter sale in April (4th-8th).
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