Date posted June 28, 2010 | Posted by Michele Cullen | Filed under
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ShamardalShamillion broke his maiden status in style when he downed a crack field in Saturday’s $100,000 Listed Australia Post Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
One of two runners in the race for top local horseman Barry Baldwin, Shamillion did best in a driving finish to edge out Benny’s Button (Refuse to Bend - Stolen Beauty by Mossman), who was being hailed the winner at the furlong pole.
No sooner had Benny’s Button hit the front, than Shane Scriven was able to get Shamillion into overdrive and land the prize in impressive fashion.
A $60,000 purchase for his trainer at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Shamillion is raced by Angelo “Lucky” Pippos in partnership with good friend Alexi Amarandos.
The bay colt had gone into the feature with two runners-up placing’s from as many runs and with $17,000 in the bag from those efforts, including, a last start eye catcher behind Paris Blu (Murphy’s Blu Boy- Fly to Paris by Air de France) in the $100,000 Magic Millions National Plate, the win has taken his career earnings past $95,000.
Shamillion is the seventh stakes winner this season for Darley’s four-time Group 1 winner Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway - Helsinki by Machiavellian). Out of the Redoute’s Choice stakes placed mare One in a Million, a daughter of the very fast Happen (by Zeditave), he is her first stakes winner.
