Weekly spotlight on breeding

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.

Shockwave is Inter Dominion material

Shockwave, who won the Past President’s Cup at Gloucester Park on Friday night and one week earlier the Winter Cup and is regarded as Inter Dominion material of the highest order, is a five-year-old entire by Mach Three from Here For The Money, a useful racemare who took a record of 1:57.9.

He is a member of an old time family, which was represented by the winner of the Redcliffe Trotters Cup in Godofthunder the night after Shockwave won.

Here For The Money is a Rich And Spoilt mare from Regal Castle, by Safely Kept from Duel Queen, by Seahawk Hanover from the NSW Golden Easter Egg winner Serene Queen, by Gammalite. Serene Queen was the dam of a smart pacer in Gold King 1:58.4 ($216,816), who won 26 races including the NSW Carousel, and of Boldandbeautiful (1:59.2), an Albert Albert mare who became the grand-dam of the NSW Breeders Challenge 2YO winner Its Only Rocknroll 1:50.8 ($442,638) and the third dam of the APG 4YO Consolation winner Jay OK 1:50.7 ($107,160).

Queen Xena, a Silent Spring mare from Serene Queen, produced two high class pacers in Chariot King 1:51.3 ($643,405) and Emjayem Grand 1:49.6 ($431,697).

Duel Queen, a Seahawk Hanover mare from Serene Queen, was responsible for a most successful branch of this family including the prolific Menangle winner Replaced Eye 1:50.3 ($271,168), the twice J. D. Watts Memorial winner Duel Prince 1:57 ($163,902), Dennis 1:55.1 ($106,612) and Jewel Castle (1:57.2).

Shockwave ranks as a half-brother to the glamour WA racemare Double Expresso 1:55.4 ($313,196).

Redcliffe Cup winner

L L Cool J, a son of the American sire A Rocknroll Dance, now at Alabar Bloodstock’s Victorian property, was the star of the Redcliffe winter carnival.

The five-year-old won on both nights – under free-for-all conditions over 2280 metres in the Garrard’s Patron’s Purse and from the standing start over 2613 metres in the Group 2 $50,700 Redcliffe Gold Cup.

L L Cool Jay is closely related to an earlier top pacer in Another Party, who won 31 races including the A. G. Hunter Cup, Fremantle Cup and Bathurst Gold Crown and $888,678 in stakes.

L L Cool J is from Alesandra Ambrosio, by Live Or Die, a Die Laughing horse who was a leading sire in NZ for many years. Alesandra Ambrosio, who was unraced, is the dam also of the prolific Gloucester Park and USA winner American Boy 1:50.4 ($593,334), the Albion Park victor Shadow Pass (1:55), The Big Cheese (1:55.3) and the promising Doubtless Bay (1:58.4).

Alesandra Ambrosio was out of Bee Gee’s Dream (2:00.5), a noted producer by Butler B G from Parisian Dream, by Sly Yankee and tracing to the taproot Our Nurse, a consistent source of classic and cup winners on both sides of the Tasman.

Besides Another Party, Bee Gee’s Dream produced two high class racemares in Party Party 1:53.2 (a winner of 13 races and $251,236) and the Queen of the Pacific winner Champagne Party 1:56.3 (14 wins and $152,445). Others from Bee Gee’s Dream were the Perth winner Soky’s Last Party (1:58.2), Gee R We There Yet and Party Baby.

But the second generation of Bee Gee’s Dream’s family has bred on with the same distinction as she did. She figures as the grand-dam of the NZ Sires Stakes champions Democrat Party 1:54.9 ($254,688) and Hoss Cartwright 1:51.8 ($352,878), Im Elsa 1:56.2 (WA Mares Mile), Fearless Leader 1:52.4 ($252,714), the WA Lord Mayor’s Cup winner Livingontheinterest 1:53.1 ($266,940), Democracy 1:50 ($435,760) and Strike Up The Band 1:52 ($204,099).

Bee Gee’s Dream is also the third dam of the WA 4YO Championship winner Waylade 1:53.5 ($447,069), the Harness Jewels and Breeders Crown winner Cowgirls N Indians 1:56 ($323,735), Shezza GNP 1:52 ($292,747) and the Group 3 Victorian winner Keayang Jackie (1:52.7).

Teddy Disco is top two-year-old

Teddy Disco, the season’s latest two-year-old Group winner, in beating a useful field in the $100,750 Garrard’s Redcliffe Yearling Sales Series Final, gives the impression that he could develop into one of next season’s top three-year-olds.

Failing to reach the reserve when offered at the 2020 Redcliffe yearling sale, Teddy Disco is a well developed gelding by Tintin In America from Three Jewels (1:57.8), the dam of earlier winners in Western Jewels (1:55.8), Always A Jewel and Butcher’s Special.

Their dam, Three Jewels, was a Lotsa Clout mare from Appealing, by Fake Left from Pleading, by McKinzie Almahurst. Three Jewels was a sister to the Listed winner Appeal A Lot 1:53.4 ($119,660) and a half-sister to the Melton winner Appeal Of Life (1:59.5).

A top New Zealand-bred, American-trained colt in Foreclosure belongs to this family. He won 15 races and $807,746 in stakes and took a record of 1:48.8. He is now a sub 1:50 sire in Canada.

Pleasing Package 1:50.4 ($359,380), winner of the QBred 2YO Breeders Classic and who later competed successfully in America, the Menangle winners Glenferrie Diva (1:58) and Oscar The Great (1:55.5) and Ima Rocknroll Diva (1:57.3) are among many good winning members of Teddy Disco’s family.

Rock On Top is some youngster

A two-year-old to take a high ranking in WA is Rock On Top, one of the largest crop sired by A Rocknroll Dance, who stands stud at Alabar Bloodstock.

He has won four races and been once placed from eight starts for $103,503. He won the $100,000 Westbred Classic recently after sitting parked in a 1:55.3 rate and earlier the $50,000 APG Gold Bullion Final and appears every bit as good as the Sandgropers rate him.

Rock On Top is out of Harper Grace (1:55.5), by Grinfromeartoear from a useful racemare in Tiz Herself (2:01.4), by Exotic Earl (son of Cam Fella) from the Dale’s Gift mare Laurick’s Pride and tracing back to the Osterley II mare Jessie.

Harper Grace, who won six races, is also the dam of the WA Sales Classic and Gold Bracelet winner Just For Love 1:57.5 ($102,486). She was a half-sister to the APG Final winner Bus To Harland 1:55.6 ($317,869), Majestic Cruiser 1:54.5 ($158,534), the SA Botra Pace winner Eljulio (1:55.9), Rocknroll Cruiser (1:55.2) and Yeadan (1:56.8).

Rock On Top was bred by Steve Johnson.

Group winner by Fly Like An Eagle

The Mach Three horse Fly Like An Eagle, a NZ Derby winner and Breeders Crown champion and now at the stud in WA, was represented by his second Group 1 winner when the two-year-old Wonderful To Fly was successful in the $100,000 Westbred Classic at Gloucester Park.

Wonderful To Fly has now won six of her 11 starts and $116,424 in stakes.

Bred by Kevin and Annette Charles, Wonderful To Fly is out of the Allamerican Ingot mare Not Now Delilah, whose dam, the Orange Sovereign mare Queen Delilah (2:01.1), left several useful winners including the Western Gateway and WA Navy Cup winner Jumbo Operator 1:57 ($313,175) and the WA Sires Stakes champion Getaway Plan 1:58 ($135,549).

Wonderful To Fly is one of the first WA crop of Fly Like An Eagle to which the WA Sales Classic winner Valhalla Miss (1:57.4) and the Group 1 placegetters Extraordinary Mary (1:58.3) and Tomlous Jambo also belong.

Up-and-coming three-year-olds

Two very promising three-year-olds to win in Victoria last weekend were Runaway Celebrity and Go Dancing, both by A Rocknroll Dance and from the same maternal family.

Runaway Celebrity, a brilliant end-to-end winner at Melton, has won three of her four starts to date, while Go Dancing, who equalled the Stawell track record of 1:56.8, has won three so far.

Celebrity Ball (2:01), the dam of Runaway Celebrity, was by Presidential Ball from the noted producer Larrakeyah Lady (2:02.5), by Windshield Wiper from the Mark Lobell mare Hot Foot, who established a great winning line for Peter Gleeson and Bruce and Craig Cameron. Besides Larrakeyah Lady, a Victoria Sires Stakes champion and dam of the Hunter Cup hero Safe And Sound, she left the Moonee Valley winner Avant Garde and the Albion Park winners Kia Kaha (1:57.8) and Iona King (1:58.5).

Celebrity Ball, who won four races, became the dam of the Victoria Silver Chalice winner Starburst Girl 1:53.6 ($143,670), Our Celebrity 1:55.1 ($130,019), My Celebrity (1:56.1), Celebrity Lass (1:57.6), Dashing Major (1:58.6) and Celebrity Guest (1:55.2), the dam of Go Dancing.

All The Magic, a Live Or Die mare from Celebrity Ball, was responsible for a most successful branch of this family. She ranks as the dam of the two outstanding pacers and Breeders Crown champions in Ride High 1:49 ($289,427) and Rocknroll Magic 1:54.5 ($466,183), the Victoria Mercury 80 winner Always Fast 1:52.8 ($121,360) and All A Breeze (1:55.2).

The Hot Foot family has earned a place all of its own in producing racemares such as Rocknroll Magic, Larrakeyah Lady and The Good Times – all Group 1 winners – and colts in the same class such as Safe And Sound, Ride High, Major Secret and others.

Trotters Foundation to Jessies Son

The NSW Trotters Foundation Series Final, for two-year-old trotters, one of the features of the winter racing at Menangle, was won by Jessies Son, a Victorian bred gelding by Majestic Son from Sheza Chenille.

Majestic Son, a son of Angus Hall, has been the leading sire in both Australia and NZ for many years in almost every category. He has sired such winners as Majestic Man (1:53.5), a winner of 18 races including the Australian Trotting Grand Prix, Majestic Player (1:51.2), Glenferrie Typhoon (1:53.5), One Over Da Moon, King Denny, Im Stately, Majestuoso and other top trotters.

Majestic Son has sired earlier winners of the NSW Foundation 2YO in Maximiser and My Valerie. Sheza Chenille, the dam of Jessies Son, was by Bad Boy Truscott, a dual Derby winning son of Sundon, from Sheza Comment, a mare by Sierra Kosmos who left the Group 1 winner Sheza Pleasure (1:59.6), Lord Lohki (1:56.3), Sheza Amason (1:59.5) and Milly’s Magic (11 wins to date).

This has been a most successful family as Arizona Blue 1:56.9 ($236,465), a half-sister to Sheza Comment, won 21 races including two Derbies and the NSW Foundation 3YO Series.

The latest Foundation Series winner, Jessies Son, has certainly a wealth of successful trotting blood on both sides of her pedigree.

By Peter Wharton for Harnesslink