Serious Shows Her Speed
12th April 2008
Quality South Australian filly Serious Speed (3f Royal Academy x Twitter, by Kendor) showed Sydney racegoers just how good she is at Rosehill on Saturday when capturing the Group Two STC Hobartville Stakes over 1400 metres against the colts.An unlucky third at her first run back from a spell in Adelaide when chasing home Juste Momente in the Group One SAJC Robert Sangster Stakes, Serious Speed relished the step up to 1400 metres and had no difficulties handling the reverse Sydney way of going.
The Leon McDonald trained daughter of Royal Academy accelerated powerfully in the straight for leading rider Craig Williams, holding off a determined bid from Murtajill (Rock of Gibraltar) to win by a half neck with Turffontein (Johannesburg) in third place providing Coolmore based sires with a Group Two trifecta.
Connections immediately announced plans to progress to the Group One AJC Doncaster Handicap at Randwick on April 26.
“I would say she's a really good miler,” said Craig Williams. “She's taking the boys on in the Doncaster with no weight o her back. The Doncaster looks like a good race for her.”
“She's got a great turn of foot. I got to the front a little too early today, she really took control of the race. We had to fight hard in the last furlong but she was too strong for them.”
A Group One winner last spring of the MRC Thousand Guineas, Serious Speed has the enviable record of four wins and four placings from 10 starts with prizemoney of $753,330.
Bred under the Toorak Park Stud banner and retained to race by Harry Perks, Trevor Robertson and Rod Fairclough, Serious Speed is the sixth living foal and first stakes-winner of the stakes-winning Kendor mare Twitter.
Winner of the Listed SAJC Nitshke Stakes, Twitter is a daughter of stakes-winner Palace News, a half-sister to the dam of triple Group One winner March Hare.
Serious Speed is one three Australian stakes-winners this season for Royal Academy who has 11 youngsters entered in the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
