Deserved Group One for Blue-Blooded Mare

29th July 2007

Five year-old mares with pedigrees such as My Typhoon (5m Giant's Causeway - Urban Sea, by Miswaki) are rarely kept in training, particularly when they already have Black Type, but the decision to keep the glamour mare going proved the right one at the weekend when the daughter of Giant’s Causeway nailed her first Group One victory in the Diana Stakes at Saratoga over 1800 metres on turf.

Always prominent in the run, the Bill Mott trained My Typhoon kicked clear to win by three-quarters of a length in posting the ninth win of her career.

“She’s in good form right now, and hopefully, that will continue for the rest of the year,” Mott said.

“This was the race that we wanted to win; everything else from here is gravy. I’m going to look at the calendar and see what’s available for her.”

My Typhoon has won $1.3 million in prizemoney for her owners Live Oak Plantation.

Purchased for a sale-topping 1,800,000 guineas as a weanling at the 2002 Tattersalls December Sale, My Typhoon is the third Group One winner and one of seven stakes horses produced by Arc de Triomphe heroine Urban Sea.

When My Typhoon topped that sale, the next highest priced foal was 510,000 guineas….. a clear indication of just how well regarded this female family is in commercial terms.

An exceptional producer, Urban Sea is the dam of champion racehorse and sire Galileo and his Group One winning brother Black Sam Bellamy, also Group Three winners Urban Ocean and All Too Beautiful as well as stakes-winner Melikah and this season’s Group placed three year-old Cherry Hinton.

My Typhoon is one of 30 stakes-winners worldwide for her sire Giant’s Causeway and is his seventh Group One winner joining Shamardal, Aragorn, First Samurai, Maids Causeway, Footstepsinthesand and Mike Fox..

Currently the third leading sire in North America with nine stakes-winners and progeny earnings in excess of $5million, Giant’s Causeway has been effective on turf and dirt.