Classy three-year-old Set For Fame produced an excellent effort to beat her older rivals at Eagle Farm on Saturday when she won the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes.

 One of the best of her age group, the Peter Moody-trained filly has now won four of her 10 starts, with more than $490,000 in the bank the victory was her third at stakes level. 

Set For Fame held off five-year-old mare Acquired (O’Reilly - Procure by Centaine) to win by a length with the last start Group 3 Glenlogan Stakes winner Wealth Princess (San Luis - Weath Star by Senor Pete)  a half-head away in third. 

A Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed during the Melbourne Autumn carnival, Set For Fame is right on target for the Group 1 Winter Stakes at Eagle Farm, June 26.

Bred by Mr Robert Crabtree, Set For Fame is the first foal of the winning Dehere mare Northpoint and was purchased by Moody from the Inglis Premier sale for $75,000.

Set For Fame has a special spot in the heart of William Inglis’ Victorian Managaing Director, Peter Heagney, as each year he 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 then 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 thousands of entries that the Sun Herald received.

By Darley’s popular young stallion, Reset who is having a great run with winners at present, recording seven in the last 14 days, Reset is third behind fellow Darley stallions Lonhro and Exceed And Excel on the third-season sires table.

The day got better for Darley as the next race on the Eagle Farm card saw talented two-year-old colt Pressday record his second Group 2 victory in the space of a fortnight with a length victory in the Sires’ Produce Stakes.

Stepping up to the 1400m for the first time, the Chris Waller-trained colt was ridden to perfection by Jim Cassidy racing near the tempo before pulling his way to the front as the field headed for home to score by a length.

By Darley’s Domesday (Red Ransom - In the Past by Zafonic), Pressday will back up in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Eagle Farm next Saturday, where he is currently the favourite for the final juvenile feature of the 2009-10 season.

Bred by Mr R D See, Pressday is out of the Kaaptive Edition mare Kaaptive Empress, a winner of nine races and a half-sister to the dam of Group 1 winner The Mighty Lions. Kaaptive Empress has a filly foal by Danzig’s Group 1 winner Librettist on the ground and was covered by Domesday last season.

Reset and Domesday both stand in Victoria at Darley’s Northwood Park property at $22,000 and $11,000 including GST respectively.

Tags: Darley, William Inglis
Permalink| Jun 6, 2010

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