More Success for Lovetrista

23rd October 2007

Blue-blooded Rock of Gibraltar filly Lovetrista (3f Rock of Gibraltar - Tristalove, by Sir Tristram) made it back-to-back Listed wins when she took out the Listed Sarten Memorial Stakes over 1400 metres in New Zealand on Monday.

The royally bred John Sargent trained filly has won two of three starts and looks destined for better things as the spring progresses.

Bred by Cambridge Stud and retained to race by Sir Patrick Hogan and partners, Lovetrista looks every bit as good as her pedigree might suggest, in fact her trainer has intimated she may be the best horse he has trained.

Lovetrista is the final foal of former top class Sir Tristram mare Tristalove (died in 2005), a dual Group One winner in Australia and three-quarter sister to AJC Australian Derby hero Don Eduardo, also full sister to stakes-winner Antwerp, the dam of champion two and three year-old Viscount.

This is of course the peerless Eight Carat family that has left a treasure trove of superior runners in Australasia for the last twenty years.

Tristalove proved every bit as good a broodmare as she was a racehorse, producing Inglis Easter sale-topper Viking Ruler, who went on to win the Group One AJC Spring Champion Stakes, as well as Group Two winner Kempinsky, stakes-winner Diamond Like and stakes-placed Chimeara, the dam of Group One STC Rosehill Guineas winner De Beers.

Lovetrista is one of 25 stakes-winners worldwide for Rock of Gibraltar, who is serving at Coolmore this spring at a fee of $82,500.