The Crown fits for Pastor Stephen filly

The thrilling last stride harness racing win of Adelaide Red in the $60,000 Breeders Crown Final for two-year-old trotting fillies at Melton last Saturday has added further lustre to the siring record of the exciting North American import Pastor Stephen.

Adelaide Red, who upstaged a top field to capture the Group 1 classic, is one of the first commercial crop of the Cantab Hall millionaire.  Currently standing at Llowalong Farms in Kyabram, with one of Victoria’s leading studmasters Dr Kath McIntosh, Pastor Stephen has made a spectacular start to his ‘down under’ career.

ADELAIDE RED DEC 13 REPLAY

In his first season he left five foals, and of these he has had three to the races with all three being winners.  Of 14 two-year-old starters this season, nine were winners and one was placed.

His stock include the Vicbred Silver winner Hallebesofine; The Preacher, who finished runner-up in The Redwood and was finalist in the Breeders Crown and Vicbred Super Series; African Gala, a winner of two of his last three starts at Albion Park; as well as the Melton winners Argyle Muse and Pass The Salt, with Jilliby Bliss, a winner at the Gunbower Cup meeting on Sunday.

In New Zealand, Pastor Stephen has left the Alexandra Park two-year-old winner Save A Prayer and a placegetter from only seven foals of racing age, while in the northern hemisphere he has sired the winners of almost $US700,000 from two small American crops, four Breeders Crown champions in Germany and feature race winners in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Pastor Stephen was a top racehorse in his own right, winning close to $1.1 million and he was voted the USA 2YO Trotting of the Year.

By the influential sire Cantab Hall, Pastor Stephen ranks as a brother to the world champion racehorse and leading sire Father Patrick and belongs to the family of the 2YO Trotting Colt of the Year and highly successful sire Chocolatier.

Pastor Stephen is part of the Llowalong Farms sire roster which includes the USA Breeders Crown champion and highly promising stallion King Of The North, last season’s leading first crop sire Poster Boy and the emerging, young sire Soho Tribeca.

For complete race results, click here.

by Peter Wharton for Harnesslink