Peeping Fawn Continues to Dominate
23rd August 2007
Outstanding filly Peeping Fawn (3f Danehill - Maryinsky, by Sadler's Wells) added another Group One trophy to her resume when she bolted away to win the Yorksire Oaks by four lengths from classy mare Allegretto (4m Galileo - Alleluia, by Caerleon) at York on Wednesday.The powerful bay was utterly dominant in taking her overall record to five wins and five placings from 10 starts for leading trainer Aidan O’Brien.
Unraced at two, Peeping Fawn has been a revelation this year graduating from a debut third in a fillies maiden over seven furlongs on at Navan on April 1 to the point where she has now strung together four successive Group One wins.
“She's a very, very good filly. I have ridden Ridgewood Pearl, Timarida, Soviet Song and Petrushka so I am a bit spoilt, but she is up there with them. She is just getting better,” said Johnny Murtagh, who has partnered the filly at her last three wins.
"She knows now that she is a mile and a half horse. I'd love to ride her in the Arc. She has a great heart and a great will to win. She loves racing. The good ones go on any ground and over any trip. A mile and a half is no problem and she liked the ground today.”
Raced by Michael Tabor and Sue Magnier, Peeping Fawn is the first foal to race and first winner for her Group One placed dam Mariensky, a daughter of champion sire Sadler’s Wells.
Mariensky is from the Group One winning Blushing Groom mare Blush With Pride, making her a half-sister to Group Two winner Better Than Honour, currently enjoying stardom in the US as the dam of champion filly Rags to Riches and last season’s Group One winner Jazil.
It’s a family well know to Australian breeders via several branches, but primarily through the Nijnsky mare Dancing Show, a grand-daughter of Best in Show.
Dancing Show is the dam of two Group One winning stallions in Umatilla and Hurricane Sky, while her daughters Shantha’s Choice and Show Dancing have left champion sire Redoute’s Choice and his Group One winning brother Platinum Scissors, plus the Group One VRC Australian Guineas winner Al Maher.
The newest female star of the family is Australian filly Sliding Cube (3f Rock of Gibraltar - Shantha's Choice, by Canny Lad), a brilliant winner of the Group Three AJC San Domenico Stakes and now being aimed for the $1million STC Golden Rose on Saturday week.
