Four generations of success. You Beauty!

Promising four-year-old You Beauty (Sportswriter) and jovial Horsham owner-trainer-driver Aaron Dunn achieved an important milestone in their careers when they combined for a last-to-first success in the Beraldo Coffee Mares’ Final at Melton last Saturday.

The Sportswriter mare is a fourth generation winner for the Dunn family from a line tracing back to the Keystone Scotch mare Koomberkine.

“I won two races at Moonee Valley with Koomberkine and two with her daughter Rappa Scooter,” Aaron said.

“I also won a race at Melton with Rappa Scooter’s daughter Little Lyn.”

Little Lyn’s half-sister Shadow Scooter, who won twice at the Victorian provincials, ranks as the dam of You Beauty and her younger half-brother Forty Love, the winner of the Victoria Sapling Stakes.

“Forty Love is the best two-year-old I’ve ever trained,” Aaron said. “He’s headed to Brisbane for the Protostar slot race later this month.”

Dunn’s parents Barry and Yvonne bred You Beauty and Forty Love.

“I bought Shadow Scooter off them as a package deal,” Aaron said. “She’s probably my best broodmare.

“I’m trying to continue with dad’s breed. It’s a good little breed that goes back to High Valley, the dam of Gammalite.”

Aaron currently has eight mares in-foal.

They include Little Lyn, the dam of Little Louie, the Group 3 winner Nikkibadwagon, Madazhell, the dam of Madazalways and Mykorona; the Live Or Die mare One Golden Day NZ and Keayang Shady.

Another smart pacer bred by Aaron is Hot Deal, a grandson pf Madazhell, who has banked almost $175,000.

“I’ve had a crack at breeding them and I’ve probably done all right,” Dunn offered.

The broodmare Mistressofillusion, owned by Western District brothers Terry and David Lewis, has thrown a pair of good sorts in Isthisjustfantasy and Browniesatmidnight

Veterinarian and studmaster Greg Hargreaves bred a winner at Cranbourne in the four-year-old Freak Out, a son of the Vicbred champion Devilish Smith

Drain The Swamp, a Somebeachsomewhere gelding bred by HRV board member Dennis Bice and his wife Brenda, won in a new lifetime mark of 1:50.8 at Tioga Downs, New York on Sunday

by Peter Wharton, for Harness Racing Victoria