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Posted by admin | Filed under SDB, Sales News, Staff Favourites, Stravinsky
A filly by Stravinsky (USA) sold for $740,000 late in the day to be the top-priced lot on Day 1 of the NZB Premier Sale at Karaka on Monday. The filly from Cambridge Stud was out of Magic of Sydney mare Jesmond’s Gift, an unraced half-sister to Canny Lad and Canny Lass and closely related to the Golden Slipper Stakes winner Sepoy.
Stravinsky - Jesmond's Gift filly
“She is a beautiful filly with a lovely outlook and a lot of class and we are thrilled to be training her,” commented Ellis on his purchase. “You have got to be prepared to pay for the best fillies and we were prepared to do that today. She was a bought for a very good client who has had many fillies with Te Akau over the past 20 years.”
“Stravinsky is a very good international sire of fillies and we are going to aim her for the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, which Te Akau has a great record with having won four of the last six titles.”
Ellis was the leading buyer of the day with 14 purchased for $2,402,500 at an average of $171,607. His second top price was $200,000 paid for Lot 46, the Danehill Dancer colt from Thunder Gulch mare Anatomy - a half-sister to last Saturday’s Group 2 Wellington Cup winner Six O’Clock News (Zabeel) - offered by Pencarrow Stud.
There were 170 lots sold on Monday at an aggregate of $24,817,500 at an average of $145,985 and the clearance rate of 70%
The sale continues on Tuesday.
Posted by admin | Filed under More Than Ready, Racing and Breeding, SDB
The breeding cross is the same as Sebring (More Than Ready - Purespeed, by Flying Spur) as are his jockey’s silks and Raceway (More Than Ready - Claws (Flying Spur) took his first step to emulating Sebring with his win at Saturday’s Warwick Farm meeting.
Sebring retired to Widden Stud after five wins in six starts, including the 2008 Golden Slipper and AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes, for a syndicate formed by Star Thoroughbreds founder Denise Martin.
Raceway settled midfield early in the Warwick Farm 100 Club Plate (1000m) before unleashing a terrific turn of sprint to score an impressive debut win sporting the Star Thoroughbreds purple and white silks.
Martin paid $150,000 for Raceway at the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The exuberant syndicator expects to recoup her outlay on Raceway in the coming months.
“He’s a really good two-year-old. A really smart horse,” Martin said. “Half of the Sebring group are in this horse.”
Raceway’s jockey Hugh Bowman said he would do his best to stay aboard Raceway in the near future.
“He’s the nicest two-year-old I’ve ridden for quite some time,” Bowman said. “I had nothing to do with the horse before today but with a bit of luck I might have a bit more to do with him.”
More Than Ready was also represented by his 10th Gr 1 winner overnight when Gimmethegreenlight (3 c More Than Ready - Yes She Can Cancan, by Canny Lad) won the Queen’s Plate (1600m) at Kenilworth in South Africa. Gimmethegreenlight was purchased at the Magic Millions National Yearling sale for $155,000 from the Vinery Stud draft.
Posted by admin | Filed under SDB, Snitzel, Staff Favourites
Arrowfield stallion Snitzel sired a double at Canterbury Park on Friday night when Flying Snitzel won the opening race and then St Beaune quickly followed winning the third.
Appropriately, Flying Snitzel (2 f Snitzel - Hula Flight, by Hula Town) is trained by Gerald Ryan, who trained Snitzel to win at Group 1 level. A $25,000 Inglis Premier Yearling to Triple Crown Syndications, Flying Snitzel made an impressive debut to score by three lengths over Gold Bender (Refuse To Bend) in the $27,000 2yo Handicap over 1200m with Queen’s Elect (Holy Roman Emperor) in third.
St Beaune (4 g Snitzel - Miss Candy, by Canny Lad) was equally impressive in defeating Republic Lad (Encosta de Lago) by three and a quarter lengths in the $27,000 Canterbury BMW Handicap over 1580. St Beaune is trained by Gai Waterhouse and he too was offered for sale at the Melbourne Premier Sale, being passed in for $35,000 in 2009.
Snitzel was also on the board at Moonee Valley on Friday night when Weekend Special (4 g Snitzel - Frescante, by Peintre Celebre) flew home to land the $55.000 Essendon Mazda Challenge over 955m.
Posted by admin | Filed under Exceed And Excel
Exceed And Excel (Danehill - Patrona, by Lomond) capped a terrific weekend for Darley stallions when his progeny claimed a treble on Sunday.
Darley sires produced 25 winners in two days. Exceed And Excel’s progeny were also prominent on Saturday when the Darwin speedster Canali (Exceed And Excel - Angora, by Barathea) proved too strong for his opposition in the 65 Roses Victoria Cup (1100m) at Caulfield.
The Anthony Freedman stable continued to hold its own with Darley-owned stock when Reparations (Exceed And Excel - Hold To Ransom, by Red Ransom) claimed the West, Carr and Harvey Accountants Handicap (1325m) at Geelong.
The three-year-old’s success followed Predator’s (Exceed And Excel - Chanteloup, by Grand Lodge) win in the Graham Family Funerals Maiden (1100m) at Hobart and Superb Effort’s (Exceed And Excel - Superb Lady, by Canny Lad) victory in the Condon Hardware Handicap (1100m) at Lismore.
The deeds of Caulfield Guineas winner Helmet (Exceed And Excel - Accessories, by Singspiel) have propelled Exceed And Excel to eighth on the Australian General Sires’ premiership. The stallion’s progeny has won 62 races this season, including five carrying stakes status.
Posted by admin | Filed under Redoute's Choice, SDB
Triple Group 1 winner Serenade Rose (Stravinsky - Rose Of Tralee, by Sadler’s Wells) produced her first winner as a broodmare just weeks after her untimely death.
Serenade Rose won eight of her 19 starts in a stellar career, which yielded wins in the 2005 VRC Oaks (2500m), AJC Australian Oaks (2400m) and Arrowfield Stud Stakes (2000m) in a wonderful three-year-old season.
Darley bought the mare once her racing days were over. The breeding operation sent Serenade Rose to champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) for her first mating in 2008.
The mating produced Outdoor (Redoute’s Choice - Serenade Rose, by Stravinsky). Outdoor’s trainer Anthony Freedman gave the filly time to develop, saving her until her three-year-old season with his patience paying dividends after Outdoor won the D Clapp Good Guys Maiden (1300m) at Bendigo in a canter.
Outdoor’s success continued Redoute’s Choice amazing start to the season. The Arrowfield champion has produced 70 individual winners from 167 runners with the sire’s progeny winning 93 races in the first third of the 2011/12 season.
Interestingly, seven of Redoute’s Choice’s winners this season have carried the Darley colours to victory.
Serenade Rose produced a Street Cry filly in 2010 while Lonhro provided her final foal, a colt, in 2011.
Posted by admin | Filed under Husson, Purrealist, SDB
Friday night’s two-year-old fillies’ event at Moonee Valley shapes a battle between the two leading stallions on the Australian First Season Sires’ standings.
Just $1775 in earnings separates Patinack Farm’s South American import Husson (Hussonet - Vila Elisa, by Roy) and Makybe Stud’s freshman sire Purrealist (Tale Of The Cat - Surrealist, by Kenny’s Best Pal).
Both sires have produced two individual winners to date. However, Purrealist has needed just three representatives to achieve his start while seven of Husson’s progeny have made to Australian tracks this season.
Patinack Farm has entered one of Husson’s winners in Friday night’s $30,000 race with the John Thompson-trained Affable (Husson - Lady Gracious, by Redoute’s Choice). Affable beat four rivals comfortably at his first start at Sale on November 16.
Hawkes Racing has nominated the Makybe Stud-owned Anjea (Purrealist - Smytzer’s Rose, by Danehill) for the race. The filly has not trialled publicly nor made the track previously.
Smytzer’s Rose (Danehill - Professionelle, by Centaine) has produced the speedy city winner Anais (Spectrum - Smytzer’s Rose, by Danehill) from three foals to race.
Smyzter’s Rose is a half-sister to the stakes winners King Of Prussia (Anabaa - Professionelle, by Centaine), Sportsman (Supremo - Professionelle, by Centaine), Prisoner Of Love (Canny Lad - Professionelle, by Centaine) and Hoystar (Danzero - Professionelle, by Centaine).
Click here for the full nominations for Friday night’s two-year-old fillies’ handicap (1000m) at Moonee Valley.
Posted by admin | Filed under Racing and Breeding, Redoute's Choice, SDB
Exciting colt Barbados (Redoute’s Choice - Virage De Fortune, by Anabaa) made a small repayment on a massive investment with his win in the Styletread Maiden Plate (1100m) at Canterbury.
Darley paid $3.4 million for Barbados’s multiple Group 1-winning dam Virage De Fortune (Anabaa - Virage, by Kenmare) while the mare was in foal to Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) at the 2007 Inglis Broodmare Sale.
Darley’s huge outlay set an Australian record for the highest-priced broodmare sold at a public auction. Milanova (Danehill - L’On Vite, by Secretariat) and Samantha Miss (Redoute’s Choice - Milliyet, by Zabeel) have since surpassed that mark.
Barbados finished second on a heavy track in July but showed vastly improved racing manners to control the race from the front before strolling to a 1-1/4 length win.
“Peter has worked hard on educating him and this time in he’s a different horse. He’s more relaxed,” Darley’s stable foreman Brad Widdup said.
“It was also good to see him kick in the straight when a horse came to him. It shows he’s got a bit of ticker too.”
Mystic Hour (Redoute’s Choice - Fatal Attraction, by Zabeel) completed a double for the Arrowfield Stud sire with her win in the J G Matthews Memorial Handicap (2003m) at Pinjarra.
Posted by admin | Filed under Bel Esprit, Redoute's Choice, SDB
The manner of Black Caviar’s (Bel Esprit - Helsinge, by Desert Sun) success proved little but the darling of the Australian turf scored her 16th straight win in effortless fashion in Saturday’s Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington.
Black Caviar has already monstered half of the field in previous meetings but faced three Peter Moody-trained stablemates for the first time in a race.
The daughter of Eliza Park sire (Royal Academy - Bespoken, by Vain) effectively ended the $1 million event as a contest when she jumped smartly to settle inside the early leader Buffering (Mossman - Action Annie, by Anabaa) .
Jockey Luke Nolen merely changed his grip on the reins, allowing Black Caviar enough latitude to cruise four lengths clear of her opposition at the 200 metres before easing her down over the last 50 metres, letting Buffering remain within three lengths on the post.
“She’s got the job done again and it is a great relief to see her do it again,” Moody said. “She can only race what is there. They are all Group horses behind her but once again, she has toyed with them.
“She runs time doing it. She is just one hell of a horse.”
The Patinack Farm Classic was Black Caviar’s seventh Group 1 win and the five-year-old’s second successive win in the Flemington feature.
Hawkes Racing will produce a half-brother to Black Caviar by Patinack Farm sire Casino Prince (Flying Spur - Lady Capel, by Last Tycoon) later in the season while Helsinge (Desert Sun - Scandinavia, by Snippets) foaled a Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) filly in 2010 and a filly from the same sire earlier this year.
Posted by admin | Filed under Encosta de Lago, Exceed And Excel, SDB
The Mick Price-trained three-year-old Instinction (Exceed And Excel - De Lago Mist, by Encosta De Lago) provided the Darley sire Exceed And Excel (Danehill - Patrona, by Lomond) with his second stakes success of the Flemington carnival with his win in the Listed VRC Springtime Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.
Juvenile filly Applegate (Exceed And Excel - Klamath Falls, by Storm Cat) scored a debut win at Listed level at Flemington on Tuesday before Instinction got up on the inside of the Paul Messara-trained Mahisara (More Than Ready - Darsini, by Danehill) to win narrowly.
Instinction became the 43rd individual stakes winner when the colt won his second race from six starts. Instinction followed in the footsteps of his stakes-winning dam De Lago Mist (Encosta De Lago - In The Mist, by Southern Appeal), who won the Group 2 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) and Group 3 SAJC Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) as a juvenile.
Price combined with Blue Sky Thoroughbreds to secure Instinction for $300,000 out of the Three Bridges Thoroughbreds draft at the 2010 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale. The Caulfield trainer said the lightly-raced colt would relish the step up to 1600 metres in Saturday week’s Group 2 Sandown Guineas.
“We’re happy and he’s a nice horse so hopefully we can run him in the Sandown Guineas,” Price said.
“He’s had a solid run here but the Sandown Guineas was always going to be our target. Now that he has got a Listed race win, it gets his rating up and we can go in there with him and a mile will be beautiful for him. ”
Instinction foaled a colt by Fastnet Rock (Danehill - Piccadilly Circus, by Royal Academy) in 2009 before the mare visited Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad. The matings produced a colt in 2010 and a filly in 2011.
Posted by admin | Filed under Elusive Quality, Fastnet Rock, Redoute's Choice, SDB
Coolmore Stud sires will take a handy lead into the final day of Flemington’s famous four-day carnival at Saturday’s Emirates Stakes meeting.
Coolmore’s band of stallions has won five of the 28 races contested to date of the first three days of the Flemington carnival. The Fastnet Rock (Danehill - Piccadilly Circus, by Royal Academy) filly Mosheen (Fastnet Rock - Sumehra, by Stravinsky) provided the stud’s highlight of the carnival to date with her win in the Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m).
Mosheen posted a nine-length success in the $1 million event. The ease of her win left the connections of Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock - Regard, by Zabeel) wondering what might have been after the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) had trounced Mosheen at their previous meetings.
Atlantic Jewel missed the VRC Oaks with a pulled hamstring.
Darley sires have won three races over the carnival. The outstanding Elusive Quality colt Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful, by Danehill) won the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes while Exceed And Excel (Danehill - Patrona, by Lomond) produced his first two-year-old winner of the season when Applegate (Exceed And Excel - Klamath Falls, by Storm Cat).
Arrowfield’s gun sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) has carried the NSW operation during the Flemington carnival with two successes. Sister Madly (Redoute’s Choice - Jade Tiara, by Bureaucracy) claimed the Group 2 Salinger Stakes (1200m) while Galah (Redoute’s Choice - Rinky Dink, by Distorted Humor) won the Group 3 Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) on the opening day of the four-day festival.
Posted by admin | Filed under Commands, Exceed And Excel, Lonhro, SDB
Impressive filly Applegate (Exceed And Excel - Klamath Falls, by Storm Cat) became the 42nd individual stakes winner for Darley sire Exceed And Excel (Danehill - Patrona, by Lomond) with her win in the Listed Ottowa Stakes (1000m) at Tuesday’s Flemington meeting.
The Darley homebred settled off the pace before producing a smooth turn of foot to reel in the Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice - Snippets’ Lass, by Snippets) filly Snitzerland (Snitzel - Monte Rosa, by Fraar) to win by a head.
Winning trainer Peter Snowden said he would aim Applegate at the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield in the autumn.
“The timing is right to give her a break now,” Snowden said. “She is obviously a talented filly and we’ll have a look at something like the Blue Diamond.”
Sons of Danehill (Danzig - Razyana, by His Majesty) provided all three placegetters when the Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) two-year-old Rhandara (Redoute’s Choice - Bhandara, by Zabeel) worked home well for third.
Applegate provided Exceed And Excel with his first juvenile win of the season. Darley sires Lonhro (Octagonal - Shadea, by Straight Strike) and Commands (Danehill - Cotehele House, by My Swanee) have already produced two-year-old stakes winners this season.
Applegate is the second stakes winner for the Storm Cat mare Klamath Falls (Storm Cat - Link River, by Gone West) after Yulalona (Dubai Destination - Klamath Falls, by Storm Cat) won the Listed Dulcify Quality (1800m) as a three-year-old.
Posted by admin | Filed under Encosta de Lago, SDB
Champion sire Encosta De Lago (Fairy King - Shoal Creek, by Star Way) will continue his largely single-handed battled against the Darley line-up over the famous four-day Flemington carnival.
Encosta De Lago has led the Coolmore charge over the last three Flemington carnivals with 11 winners. The Coolmore mainstay has sired eight more winners at Victoria’s showpiece racing festival than his nearest rivals, Darley’s Fantastic Light (Rahy - Jood, by Nijinsky II), Lonhro (Octagonal - Shadea, by Straight Strike) and Reset (Zabeel - Assertive Lass, by Zeditave).
Arrowfield Stud’s super sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) has also sired the winners of three races across the past three Flemington spring carnivals.
Encosta De Lago has seven representatives among the 196 nominations for Saturday’s opening day of the 2011 Flemington spring carnival.
The sire has two sons entered in the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) with the Mick Price-trained Costly Commitment (Encosta De Lago - Mutate, by Octagonal) and Sydney three-year-old Niagara (Encosta De Lago - River Song, by Fusaichi Pegasus) to fly the Coolmore flag.
Click here to view the full nominations for Saturday’s Victoria Derby meeting.
Posted by admin | Filed under Canny Lad, Elusive Quality, SDB, Strategic, Street Cry
European-based Darley stallion Kheleyf (Green Desert - Society Lady, by Mr Prospector) earned his first Australian winner when Praise Be (Kheleyf - Grateful Thanks, by Bering) won the Richmond Club Handicap (2000m) at Hawkesbury.
Praise Be started his career in Ireland before clients of the Chris Waller stable purchased the mare to race in Australia. The four-year-old recorded a comfortable 2-1/2 length win to record her first win from seven starts for the Rosehill stable.
Kheleyf won the Group 3 Jersey Stakes (7f) in the UK in 2004. The stallion has produced stakes winners in France, Britain, Ireland, Italy and the US.
The local Darley sires produced four winners of their own on a profitable day. Elusive Quality (Gone West - Touch Of Greatness, by Hero’s Honor) sired the first winner for dual Group 1 winner Fashions Afield (Redoute’s Choice - Attire, by Wild Again) when Turn On Sixpence (Elusive Quality - Fashions Afield, by Redoute’s Choice) won the Aruze Gaming Maiden (1000m) at Hawkesbury.
Darley veteran Canny Lad (Bletchingly - Jesmond Lass, by Lunchtime) got on the board when Ever The Same (Canny Lad - Jamil, by Giant’s Causeway) won the Aristocrat Maiden (1300m). Bound To Blush (Strategic - Run For Roses, by Danehill) claimed the Hawkesbury Living Handicap (1200m) while Taxee (Street Cry - Helaura Miss, by Helissio) completed Darley’s winning day in the Harris Scarfe Maiden (1200m) at Ballarat.
Posted by admin | Filed under Redoute's Choice, SDB
A stunning debut from the Darley-owned filly Sindarin (Redoute’s Choice - Eldarin, by Marauding) has paved the way for a midweek double for Arrowfield Stud’s champion stallion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad).
Sindarin missed the start before scoring a convincing win in the Bar Coluzzi Darlinghurst Handicap (1300m) at the Randwick Kensington meeting. Jockey Corey Brown held his nerve while the race unfolded before bringing the three-year-old down the middle of the track to score by a long head.
Sindarin is a sister to the Group 3 winner Mearas (Redoute’s Choice - Eldarin, by Marauding). Eldarin (Marauding - Voltage, by Whiskey Road) is a daughter of the terrific producer Voltage (Whiskey Road - Electric Belle, by Sovereign Edition).
Sindarin comes from the same family as the Group 1 winners Drum (Marauding - Voltage, by Whiskey Road), Grand Armee (Hennessy - Tambour, by Marauding) and Dealer Principal (Flying Spur - Volte, by Marauding).
Tropicana Girl (Redoute’s Choice - Get Around, by Xaar) completed Redoute’s Choice’s double at The Randwick Kensington meeting. The Chris Waller-trained mare held off the males in the Peters Meats Handicap (1500m).
Redoute’s Choice has sired 55 individual winners. The champion stallion has produced the winners of 69 races.
Posted by admin | Filed under Charge Forward, Flying Spur, Redoute's Choice, Snitzel
Arrowfield Stud sires teamed up for a big day on Saturday with six winners at the day’s Melbourne and Sydney meetings.
The Darley-owned colt Galah (Redoute’s Choice - Rinky Dink, by Distorted Humor) gave Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) his 79th individual stakes winner when he charged home from last to claim the Listed Lightway Australia Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Master trainer Bart Cummings produced Flying Spur (Danehill - Rolls, by Mr Prospector) filly Gliding (Flying Spur - Marrego, by Marscay) to win the Listed Ethereal Stakes (2000m). The half-sister to the outstanding galloper Eremein (Timber Country - Marrego, by Marscay) began a double for Flying Spur, which concluded when Satin Shoes (Flying Spur - Star Satire, by Volksraad) won the Carlton Draught Plate (1100m).
Sabrage (Charge Forward - Galroof, by Maroof) as a Group 1 Victoria Derby contender with his success in the Group 3 Norman Robinson Stakes (2000m) to complete a quartet of successes in Melbourne.
Rosehill trainer Gerald Ryan produced a pair of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice - Snippet’s Lass, by Snippets) gallopers to win at Randwick. Hot Snitzel (Snitzel - Flames Of Paris, by Blushing Groom) earned the sire his sixth stakes win with his success in the Listed Brian Crowley Stakes (1200m) while Amorino (Snitzel - Steal My Love, by Marauding provided the stallion with a two-year-old success in the City Tattersalls Plate (1000m).
Posted by admin | Filed under Al Maher, SDB
A strong win to the impressively bred Meethaq (Al Maher - My Juliet, by Canny Lad) provided the springboard for a winning double for Emirates Park Stud sire Al Maher (Danehill - Show Dancing, by Don’t Say Halo) on Wednesday.
Meethaq produced a strong finishing burst to claim the Catanach’s Jeweller’s Plate (1600m) at Caulfield. The Danny O’Brien-trained colt is a half-brother to the high-class filly Mnemosyne (Encosta De Lago - My Juliet, by Canny Lad), who won the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) in 2005.
O’Brien said Meethaq’s win continued a spring preparation that started with a conference with Emirates Park Stud chief executive Trevor Lobb.
“I had a chat to Trevor Lobb early in the spring and we really thought that this spring his main target would be the Carbine Club (Stakes, G2 1600m, Derby Day),” O’Brien said.
“Today has been a nice trial for that.
“He’ll go to Flemington in two and half weeks time and it will be a nice race for him.”
Al Maher won the Carbine Club Stakes in 2004.
The Bevan Laming-trained Our Recidivist (Al Maher - Walk The Wild Side, by Snaadee) completed Al Maher’s double when the five-year-old claimed the www.brc.com.au Plate (1640m) at Doomben.
Posted by admin | Filed under Redoute's Choice, SDB
The Rick Hore-Lacy-trained Chase The Rainbow (Dash For Cash - Illusional, by Redoute’s Choice) booked himself a berth in a pair of Group 1 features with his comprehensive success in the Group 2 Bill Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.
Chase The Rainbow circled his rivals to win the Bill Stutt Stakes from the tail of the field. Hore-Lacy said the stylish grey would run in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on Saturday week before tackling the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) two starts later.
Hore-Lacy prepared the terrific racehorse and subsequent champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) to win the Caulfield Guineas in 1999. Redoute’s Choice is the damsire of Chase The Rainbow.
Hore-Lacy also won the Group 1 Australian Guineas with Chase The Rainbow’s sire Dash For Cash (Secret Savings - Gulistan, by Rubiton). The Caulfield trainer is confident he has the horse to upset the Sydney dominance of this season’s three-year-old ranks.
Hore-Lacy paid $90,000 for Chase The Rainbow at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale in 2010.
”He’s a horse that has interested me from day one and being by Dash For Cash out of a Redoute’s Choice, he’s kept interesting me,” Hore-Lacy said.
Posted by admin | Filed under Danzero, Elusive Quality, More Than Ready, SDB
Glamour Sydney mare More Joyous (More Than Ready - Sunday Joy, by Sunday Silence) will need to overcome last season’s champion two-year-old Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful, by Danehill) if she is to give her sire his first stakes win of the season in Friday’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
Vinery resident More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) has sired the winners of 26 races this season but stakes success has eluded him so far.
Sepoy and More Joyous are the favoured runners in an eight-horse field. Mossman (Success Express - Lichen Lady, by Twig Moss) gelding Buffering (Mossman - Action Annie, by Anabaa) will provide another opportunity for a Vinery sire to win the $500,000 race.
Kulgrinda (Exceed And Excel - River Crossing, by Bellotto) will give Darley sires their second shot at claiming the Manikato Stakes.
Former Hong Kong sprinter Happy Zero (Danzero - Have Love, by Canny Lad) will represent the new Rosemont Stud stallion Danzero (Danehill - Confidentially, by Kaoru Star).
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Manikato Stakes (1200m) - Group 1 - Of $500,000
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| No |
Horse |
Trainer |
Jockey |
Barrier |
Weight |
Sire |
| 1 |
HAPPY ZERO |
Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes |
Darren Beadman |
2 |
58.5kg |
Danzero |
| 2 |
BUFFERING |
Robert Heathcote |
Damian Browne |
3 |
58.5kg |
Mossman |
| 3 |
ATOMIC FORCE |
Darren Smith |
Damien Oliver |
7 |
58.5kg |
Danehill Dancer |
| 4 |
MORE JOYOUS (NZ) |
Gai Waterhouse |
Nash Rawiller |
4 |
56.5kg |
More Than Ready |
| 5 |
SISTER MADLY |
John Sadler |
Craig Williams |
5 |
56.5kg |
Redoute’s Choice |
| 6 |
RUE MAPLE |
Darren Weir |
Ms Michelle Payne |
6 |
56.5kg |
Choisir |
| 7 |
KULGRINDA |
Peter G Moody |
Luke Nolen |
8 |
56.5kg |
Exceed And Excel |
| 8 |
SEPOY |
Peter Snowden |
Kerrin McEvoy |
1 |
52kg |
Elusive Quality |
Posted by admin | Filed under Redoute's Choice, SDB
Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) has genuine winning chances in three of the four Group 1 race on Randwick’s big Epsom Handicap card.
Redoute’s Choice has made a lightning start to the 2011-12 season. The stallion has produced 47 winners of 53 races in the first two months of the new term, including four Group 2 victors and a winner at Group 3 level.
Rekindled Alliance (Redoute’s Choice - Rekindled Affair, by Rainbow Quest) and Godspeed (Redoute’s Choice - Regrowth, by Unbridled’s Song) will represent the sire in the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m). King’s Rose (Redoute’s Choice - Nureyev’s Girl, by Nureyev) is the Arrowfield resident’s main hope in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m).
The David Payne-trained Florentina (Redoute’s Choice - Celebria, by Peintre Celebre) will attempt to provide the stallion a win in the Group 1 Flight Stakes.
Redoute’s Choice does not have a representative in the Group 1 Metropolitan (2400m) but the Starcraft (Soviet Star - Flying Floozie, by Pompeii Court) mare Crafty Irna (Starcraft - Zirna, by Deputy Governor) will represent Arrowfield Stud sires in the $400,000 event.
Click here for the fields for all four Group 1 races at Saturday’s Randwick meeting.
Posted by admin | Filed under Flying Spur, Not a Single Doubt, Redoute's Choice, SDB
Arrowfield Stud recorded a stakes treble for the second successive Saturday, including a Group 3 double at Caulfield for the Hunter Valley operation.
Arrowfield’s champion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) shouldered the load for the stud with all three stakes winners last Saturday. Redoute’s Choice was among the winners again when Sister Madly (Redoute’s Choice - Jade Tiara, by Bureaucracy) claimed the Group 3 How Now Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
Sister Madly made a winning debut for the John Sadler stable after Segenhoe Stud paid $1 million for the Group 1-placed mare at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale earlier this year.
“It’s terrific, we’ve only just started this relationship with Segenhoe - Kevin Maloney,” Sadler said.
“He paid a lot of money for her as a broodmare and gave her to us up in Brisbane and asked us through racing manager Bill Mitchell whether we should go on and give her another campaign or head to stud.”
“She showed us that we should go on with her as she’s shown here today.”
A half-sister to Hong King legend Silent Witness (El Moxie - Jade Tiara, by Bureaucracy), Saturday’s win was Sister Madly’s third from 14 starts.
Earlier, Bliss Street (Flying Spur - Jade Diva, by Jade Robbery charged home to dead-heat for first with another Arrowfield Stud sire’s progeny Celebrity Girl (Starcraft - Dashing Granada, by Keltrice) before a protest left her as the sole winner of the Group 3 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield.
Arrowfield sires produced the quinella to the $125,000 race when stewards promoted Hallowell Belle (Starcraft - Bella Inez, by Beautiful Crown) to second while relegating Celebrity Girl to fourth.
Karuta Queen (Not A Single Doubt - Card Queen, by Final Card) completed Arrowfield’s treble with an all-the-way win in the Listed Heritage Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill.
