Fleur Royale Resumes in Style

28th July 2007

Classy filly Fleur Royale (3f Royal Academy - Azalea, by Marscay) resumed from a spell with a dominant win at Warwick Farm in the Class Five event for fillies and mares over 1200 metres on Saturday.

The Gai Waterhouse trained daughter of Royal Academy parked just off the pace and accelerated sharply in the straight to run right away and win by three lengths.

“You don’t get a much better gallop than that,” said winning rider Nash Rawiller.

“She hit the line that hard if they had have gone another 100m she would beaten them even easier.”

Group One placed in the AJC Flight Stakes last spring behind Cheeky Choice, Fleur Royale has won three races and placed four times from 12 starts earning $145,450.

Raced by Phillip Webb and Paul and Judy Kevin, Fleur Royal was purchased for them by astute bloodstock agent Vin Cox for just $38,000 from the Widden draft at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in 2005.

Bred by Widden Stud, Fleur Royale is the second foal of young winning Marscay mare Azalea, who descends from champion New Zealand mare La Mer, the 1979 NZ Horse of the Year and winner of 24 races including the New Zealand Oaks.