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Belmont, Listed Black Heart Bart S., $125,000, 1200m
It was a second stakes success for Uni Time (Universal Ruler), a lightly raced 6-year-old who really knows how to find the line, winning seven of his 25 starts.
A homebred for the Roberts family, the son of Scenic Lodge's Group 3-winning sprinter Universal Ruler - one of his nine stakes winners is out of the multiple city winner Darntime (Danetime {Ire}).
Recently foaling a full sister to Uni Time, Darntime from a family light on close up black type is also dam of the multiple city winner Regal Gleam (Alfred Nobel {Ire}).
Uni Time is bred on a 7 X 7 cross of the outstanding mare Rough Shod II (GB) (Gold Bridge {Fr}) via her descendant Sadler's Wells (USA) and son Lt Stevens (USA) (Nantallah {USA}).
Toowoomba, Listed Weetwood H., $150,000, 1200m
Half of the six wins recorded by talented galloper Apache Chase (Better Than Ready) have come at stakes level, this win in Toowoomba's most famous race coming at his first outing since an unplaced run in the G1 Stradbroke H.
Bred by Eureka Cambooya Thoroughbreds and sold for $50,000 to Michael Sherrin at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale, Apache Chase is one of the five stakes winners sired by Lyndhurst Stud's four-time Listed-winning stallion Better Than Ready.
He is a half-brother to the G2 Bill Stutt S winner Churchill Downs and he is the final foal produced by the imported Silken Whisper (USA) (Diesis {GB}) whose dam is the Listed winner Yaguda (USA) (Green Dancer {USA}).
This year's G1 Surround S. winner Forbidden Love (All Too Hard), who ran unplaced in Saturday's Listed Golden Pendant S., also hails from this family.
Awapuni, G3 Boehringer Ingelheim Metric Mile, NZ$80,000, 1600m
Wellfield Lodge's Alamosa (NZ) has been somewhat of a quiet achiever, yesterday represented by his 20th stakes winner in the shape of House Of Cartier.
Bred in Australia by Mr W.J Gleeson (her managing owner), Pee Gee Bloodstock and Nearco Stud, House Of Cartier has an Australia Group 1 placing on her record having finished a close up third behind Princess Jenni (NZ) (High Chaparral {Ire}) in the 2019 Australasian Oaks at Morphettville.
She is the second foal and second stakes winner for the NZ Champion Stayer Shez Sinsational (NZ) (Ekraar {USA}) whose first foal is the Listed winner Sinarahma (Darci Brahma {NZ}).
Served last spring by Almanzor (Fr), Shez Sinsational won 12 races, four of those at Group 1 level. She is a daughter of the stakes-placed Original Sin (NZ) (Shinko King {Ire}), also grandam of last season's Group 3 winner Our Hail Mary (NZ) (Ocean Park {NZ}).
A descendant of the legendary Pretty Polly (GB), House Of Cartier boasts crosses of three great mares within seven generations; Lalun (USA), Sans Tares (GB) and Chenille (GB).
