Treble of 2YO Winners for Coolmore Sires
20th October 2008
Although there were no juvenile stakes races at the weekend in Australia there was action aplenty with the Gimcrack form producing another dominant winner, a boom first season sire putting an important run on the board and a filly from one of our favourite families winning on debut.
You’d have to be ‘blind freddy’ not to notice the Gimcrack form is on fire with several of the also rans behind bargain priced filly Our Joan of Arc now emerging as winners.
Movie (8th Gimcrack) thumped her rivals at Rosehill last Saturday, while $1.1 million filly Come Hither (3rd Gimcrack) landed a stakes race at Caulfield on Wednesday and now we’ve seen the runner-up Horizons (2f Choisir x Ubiquity, by Hurricane Sky) turn in a sensational effort to take the open juvenile event at Randwick on Saturday.
Yet another smart performer to race in the Star Thoroughbreds colours, the Gai Waterhouse trained daughter of Choisir was bought by Denise Martin for $120,000 from the Attunga Stud draft at the 2008 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.
A strong athletic bay, Horizons is the second foal of the Hurricane Sky mare Ubiquity, a full sister to Group Three winning sprinter Continuum.
You’d have to be ‘blind freddy’ not to notice the Gimcrack form is on fire with several of the also rans behind bargain priced filly Our Joan of Arc now emerging as winners.
Movie (8th Gimcrack) thumped her rivals at Rosehill last Saturday, while $1.1 million filly Come Hither (3rd Gimcrack) landed a stakes race at Caulfield on Wednesday and now we’ve seen the runner-up Horizons (2f Choisir x Ubiquity, by Hurricane Sky) turn in a sensational effort to take the open juvenile event at Randwick on Saturday.
Yet another smart performer to race in the Star Thoroughbreds colours, the Gai Waterhouse trained daughter of Choisir was bought by Denise Martin for $120,000 from the Attunga Stud draft at the 2008 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.
A strong athletic bay, Horizons is the second foal of the Hurricane Sky mare Ubiquity, a full sister to Group Three winning sprinter Continuum.
Horizons’ sire Choisir has been enjoying a great run in both hemispheres and also had a big result in the UK at the weekend with slick three year-old colt Stimulation capturing the Group Two Victor Challenge Stakes at Newmarket.
Champion sprinter Fastnet Rock sired his first winner when two year-old filly San Cristobel (2f Fastnet Rock x Galapagos Girl, by Dehere) won the 900 metre maiden at Bendigo on Saturday by more than two lengths.
Making her debut, San Cristobel settled just behind the leader and finished off too well to score a stylish victory.
The Lee Freedman trained filly was purchased for $700,000 from the Trelawney Stud draft at the 2008 NZB Premier Yearling Sale by BBA Ireland and is raced by a syndicate that includes Coolmore Stud, Demi O’Byrne, Lord Sam Vestey and Dean Fleming.
San Cristobel is the second foal of the Group Three winning Dehere mare Galapagos Girl, a half-sister to star producer Procrastinate, dam of multiple Group One winner Laisserfaire, stakes-winners Foreplay and Personify as well as this season’s top class three year-old Time Thief, runner up in the Group One MRC Caulfield Guineas.
Fastnet Rock is a hot favourite to be leading first season sire in Australia this season, his progeny having sold tremendously well at the sales this year and San Cristobel is likely to be the first of many winners for the son of Danehill.
Tale of the Cat was responsible for the two year-old winner at Eagle Farm in Brisbane in the shape of the Noel Doyle trained filly Our Dreaming (2f Tale of the Cat x Dance of Dreams, by Dehere) , who did best in a driving finish to take the open two year-old event over 100 metres by a long neck.
An $80,000 purchase for Robert Anderson from the draft of Highgrove Stud at the 208 Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Our Dreaming is the second foal of the Dehere mare Dance of Dreams, who comes from a prolific Black Type family including Group winners such as Legally Bay, Time Out and Pasta Express tracing back to influential mare Gypsy Moss.
