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Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every Friday brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound.
Won Rising Sun
Amazing Dream gave a further taste of her class when she out-sprinted a top field in the inaugural $250,000 Rising Sun, a new Group 1 for three and four-year-olds at Albion Park. The win sent her earnings over the $1 million mark.
By Bettor’s Delight, Amazing Dream is out of Christian Dreamer, dam also of the former NZ 2YO Colt of the Year Let’s Chase The Dream 1:49.9 ($604,589), now racing successfully in North America, and others in Dream Major (1:59.7) and Catch The Dream (1:59.8).
Christian Dreamer is by Christian Cullen from the Group One winner and producer Dreamy Atom 1:59.2 ($108,810), by Soky’s Atom from Lumber Lie, by Lumber Dream.
The family traces back to the Peter The Great mare Berthabell, who was foaled in America in 1909. Lumber Lie founded a good winning branch of this family including pacers of the calibre of Soho Lennon 1:51 ($708,802), the NZ Oaks winner Western Dream 1:56.3 ($334,987), Western Cullen (WA Golden Slipper), Tisadream (1:50), Lochinver 1:52.2 (Treuer Memorial) and Real Stride (1:51.6).
Siring feat to Always B Miki
Rather a notable siring feat was credited to the Always A Virgin horse Always B Miki at Gloucester Park on Sunday, when he had three runners in a 12-horse field in the Group 1 $125,000 Golden Slipper.
Two of his stock, Tricky Miki, a good type of youngster, and Youre So Fine NZ, finished first and third respectively, and his third runner, The Miki Taker, finished seventh.
Tricky Miki, who was bred by Steve Johnson, ranks as a half-brother to the recent Gloucester Park three-year-old winner Orlando Blue (1:57.7), being out of the Western Crown victor Harriet Elisabeth 1:57.4 ($114,348), a sister by Modern Art to the Gloucester Park winner Liam Neil 1:57.2 ($141,744) and a half-sister to the Listed winner Soho Jackman 1:50.6 ($368,278), now racing successfully in America.
Always B Miki’s first ‘down under’ crop are two-year-olds and include the APG Gold Bullion winner Taking The Miki, Uncle Miki (five wins in eight starts), the thrice Group 1 NZ placegetter Montana Glory and the Albion Park winner Future Assured (1:55.3).
Always B Miki (1:46), the joint fastest standardbred of all-time, is the first son of Always A Virgin imported to Australia, and his first crops in both America and Australia have been most impressive. Always B Miki, who stands at Alabar’s Victorian property, is a half-brother to the millionairess Yagonnakissmeornot (1:49.6).
Paleface Adios Classic winner
The Tintin In America gelding Teddy Disco firmly established himself as the top Queensland juvenile of the season when he won the $25,000 Paleface Adios Classic at Albion Park.
Teddy Disco was offered by Barry and Shawn Grimsey at the 2020 Redcliffe yearling sale and bought back by them for a modest $6,500. He has now won four of his five starts for $90,283 in stakes.
Teddy Disco is by the McArdle horse Tintin In America (sire of Shartin, etc.), from Three Jewels, who took a record of 1:57.8. She produced earlier winners in Western Jewels (1:55.8), Always A Jewel (2:01.5) and Butcher’s Special.
Three Jewels was by the American import Lotsa Clout from the Fake Left mare Appealing, a sister to a fine racemare in Pleasing Package 1:50.4 ($359,380), who, in turn, left a top colt in Foreclosure 1:48.8 ($807,746), now a 1:50 sire in Canada, and the Menangle winner Glenferrie Diva (1:58).
This is a long established NZ family and other smart performers belonging to it include the Listed winner Appeal A Lot 1:53.4 ($119,660), the Menangle winner Oscar The Great (1:55.5), Ima Rocknroll Diva (1:57.3) and the Melton winner Appeal Of Life (1:59.5).
A yearling sister to Teddy Disco was offered at this year’s Redcliffe sale and was bought back by the vendor for $10,000.
Fame Assured top Queensland mare
When she won the $30,000 Fleur De Lil Ladyship Stakes at Albion Park last Saturday Fame Assured proved herself the Queensland mare of the current season.
It was her 23rd lifetime success, and she completely overwhelmed the best mares in the country in the Fleur De Lil after spotting the leaders a tidy start with a round to go.
Fame Assured, who is raced by her breeders Kevin and Kay Seymour, is a member of one of Queensland’s most successful families, being a six-year-old Mach Three mare from a handy racemare in Faith Prevails (1:58.1), a Fake Left mare who has produced others in the QBred Triad winner Frankie Rocks 1:52.2 ($253,772), Feel The Faith 1:53.1 ($171,323), Fearless Faith (1:55.5) and Jet’s Girl, dam of the Listed winner Struve (1:54.4).
Faith Prevails was out of Girl From Ipanema (1:57.6), a noted producer by Vanston Hanover from the Oaks winner Goldrush Girl (TT1:55.3), by Transport Chip from the Tempest Hanover mare Call Girl, who founded a powerful branch of the Lady Antrim tribe.
Girl From Ipanema, who won twice at Group level, produced two high class pacers in Guitarzan (1:56.9), a winner of 18 races and $216,956 in stakes, and Forever After (1:56.2), a winner of 20 races and $172,808. Others from Girl From Ipanema were the brilliant but ill-fated Famous Forever (1:57.8) and Folk Hero (1:56.9).
But the second generation of Girl From Ipanema’s family has bred on with the same distinction as she did. She figures as the grand-dam of the QBred Triad 3YO winner Fond Memories 1:53.9 ($119,419), a double winner at this year’s Brisbane winter carnival, the Tasmanian Belmont winner Deadly Error (1:59.1), After The Ball (1:58.7) and All After Me (1:59).
Blue blooded filly
Symphony Stride, who won on debut at Melton last weekend, is a two-year-old filly who can claim some worthwhile blood.
By Well Said (a son of Western Hanover), she is out of the Art Major mare Spicy Stride 1:52.8 ($184,635), a NSW Breeders Challenge winner whose dam, Jean West, was by Western Hanover from Miss Chevious 2:00.7 ($166,786), also a NSW Sires Stakes champion.
Spicy Stride, a winner of 12 races, is a sister to Pearl Stride (2:01.7), who became the dam of the Bathurst Gold Crown winner Astride 1:53.6 ($194,960) and Oyster Stride 1:53.5 ($116,207) and a half-sister to Western Stride (1:54.8) and Arrow Stride (1:56.4).
Jean West was a sister to Come Together (1:58.5), the dam of the NSW Breeders Challenge winner Luda 1:52.5 ($216,653), and a half-sister to Hold The Aces 1:56.8 ($136,448), who won 25 races.
The doubling of the blood of Western Hanover in Symphony Stride’s pedigree bodes well for her future.
Closely related to Fake Left
Captains Beachbabe, who won the $30,000 Dainty’s Daughter Country Classic, one of the feature races on the Pinjarra calendar, is a Captaintreacherous filly from the same family as that which produced a top colt pacer and sire in Fake Left.
Captains Beachbabe, who did not win at two, has shown up as an above average three-year-old and it was a strong field she beat at Pinjarra.
Bred by Terry Ferguson, she is out of Grin On The Beach (1:59.6), a Gloucester Park winner by Grinfromeartoear from the American-bred Beach Madam (1:56), by Beach Towel from the Albatross mare Madam Madusa, dam of the Little Brown Jug winner Fake Left (1:51.4), a leading sire in Australia for many years.
Besides Captains Beachbabe, Grin On The Beach, who won seven races, was also the dam of the Gloucester Park winners Bettorgrinanbarit (1:56.6) and Sunnie Beach (1:59.3).
Three winners in four days
The Panorama mare Party Date, a Victoria Ladyship Cup and WA Easter Cup winner, produced three winners in the space of four days in WA recently.
The Monies On, a three-year-old gelding by Mach Three, started the ball rolling by winning at the Narrogin midweek meeting. The following night Rocknroll Whitby (by Rocknroll Hanover) brought up his 19th success at Gloucester Park, while, two days later, Pierre Whitby (by Mach Three) won his 12th race at the Perth headquarters’ track.
To date Party Date has left eight winners from eight live foals with three $100,000 earners and five in the 2:00 list. She is also the dam of a yearling filly by the highly credentialled Huntsville.
NSW Trot Final to Araignee Flair
The NSW Trot Final, for four and five-year-old trotters, one of the features of the season at Menangle, was won by Araignee Flair, a little fancied mare by Yankee Spider from Petite Flair.
Yankee Spider, a son of Muscles Yankee, has been a consistent source of trotting winners in Australia for many years and is now making a name for himself as a broodmare sire.
He has sired such winners as Spidergirl, a triple Vicbred champion and Breeders Crown winner, the Vicbred winners Kinvara Sue and Fear The Yankee, Miracle, Forestspider, Iona Spider and other top trotters.
Petite Flair, the dam of Araignee Flair, was by S J’s Photo, who also distinguished himself as a sire of trotters, from the Group winner Fiona’s Flair (2:02.8), a mare by Entrepreneur who left a champion trotter in A Touch Of Flair, a winner of four Group One’s and rated one of the best his gait ever bred in this country.
A Touch Of Flair was also by S J’s Photo and was a half-brother to another fine trotter in Down Under Muscles, now siring winners in Victoria.
This has been a most successful family, as Gypsy Flair, a Skyvalley half-sister to A Touch Of Flair, was the dam of last year’s 2YO Trotting Filly of the Year in Banglez and the recent two-year-old winner Just A Bit Touchy.
The latest NSW Trot Final winner, Araignee Flair, has certainly a wealth of successful trotting blood on both sides of her pedigree.
SA yearling sale date
The 2022 SA Silver Salver Yearling Sale will be conducted on Sunday, March 27 at Magic Millions, Morphettville.
Yearlings offered at this year’s sale will be eligible to compete in the 2022 Silver Salver race series with $50,000 finals for both sexes over 1800 metres at Globe Derby Park on May 21.
Heats will be held a week earlier with the barrier draw based on sex.
By Peter Wharton for Harnesslink
