More Group 1 glory for Rockinwithattude

The bonny Aldebaran Eagle USA mare Rockinwithattitude proved herself the top four-year-old trotter of the current harness racing season when she won the $150,000 The Great Square at Albion Park.

It was her fifth success at Group 1 level, and she defeated the best three and four-year-olds in the country after being required to overcome a wide barrier draw. Her mile rating of 1:57.1 for the 2138 metres mobile trip was a new lifetime mark.

Her career record is now 18 wins and seven placings in 31 starts.

Rockinwithattitude’s stunning triumph put an exclamation mark on another red-letter month for Aldebaran Park and its powerful sire roster.

Among the other highlights were the homebred quinella in the Lightfoot Laurels at Melton with Aldebaran Vera (Trixton USA-Kyvalley Aldebaran NZ) and Aldebaran Miley (Father Patrick USA-Mason Magic), along with Group 1 winner Aldebaran Zeus (Muscle Hill USA-Zoia Boko Swe), who won the Aldebaran Park Free-for-all at Melton in 1:54 in a great return to the winner’s circle.

Aldebaran Eagle USA was represented by six individual winners in July. 

Besides Rockinwithattitude, he was also the sire of the two-year-old winner Myheartbeatstrue (Kilmore), Panda Fooey (Albion Park), Robert John (Bendigo), Aldebaran Stiles (Port Pirie) and Eagle Hanover (Cambridge, NZ).

Skyvalley NZ, again the leading colonial sire this season, left seven winners during the month. They included the 1:57.6 Melton victor Kyvalley Amanda, the three-year-olds Timmy Turtle NZ and Link In Bio, Watch And Act, Hurricane Jane, Myrtle Vale and, in New Zealand, Kimkar Dash.

Skyvalley NZ also figured as the damsire of the dual Menangle winner Super Service (1:56.4), Fouroutofive (Melton), Im Bobby (1:58.6) and Kaotic Flair.

Aldebaran Park bred no less than eight individual winners in Australasia in July. They were Aldebaran Zeus, Aldebaran Vera, the three-year-olds Aldebaranstilinski (ex Aldebaran Sky), Aldebaran Campbell (ex Aldebaran Turnpike USA) and Aldebaran Marshall (ex Mason Magic), the dual Albion Park victor Hammer Son (ex Jingling Silver) Aldebaran Stiles, Robert John and, in New Zealand, Aldebaran D B (ex Dream Belle).

On the international front, Aldebaran Park had a duo of northern hemisphere bred winners in For Sure Aldebaran Swe (ex Aldebaran Teal Swe), who won in Sweden, and Generally Speaking Swe (ex Maori Time), who hoisted a fresh lifetime record of 1:55.4 at The Red Mile, Kentucky, USA.

Aldebaran Acrux USA (Chapter Seven USA-Model Behaviour USA), who was imported to Australia from America by Aldebaran Park, posted her maiden southern hemisphere win at Ballarat and she is now a dual hemisphere winner. 

The frozen semen for Aldebaran Eagle USA will be available only in New Zealand in the upcoming 2024 season. 

Bookings and further information from Andrew Fitzgerald on phone NZ 027 367 8264. 

Brochures and booking forms for the Aldebaran Park stallions Dancinginthedark M USA, Skyvalley NZ and Aldebaran Eagle USA are now available on the Aldebaran Park website click here

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink