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G1 Neds Caulfield Guineas, $2,000,000, 1600m
The G1 Caulfield Guineas looks good on a stallion's resume and Anamoe (Street Boss {USA}) is bound to have plenty of fans when he ventures to stud.
A Godolphin homebred who was part of a big day for Street Cry (Ire) stallions (Per Incanto {USA} and Shocking also represented by feature race winners), Anamoe is the first dual Group 1 winner for his sire.
A half-brother to the Irish stakes winner Anamba (GB) (by Street Cry's close relation Shamardal {USA}), Anamoe is a son of the G1 Australasian Oaks winner Anamato, half-sister to the G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Drum (Marauding {NZ}).
A mare who campaigned overseas, running third in the G1 American Oaks, Anamato was served last spring by Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal {USA}) with her most recent foal being the James Cummings-trained 2-year-old colt Dartboard (Shooting To Win).
A member of New Zealand's prolific "Belle" family, Anamoe carries multiple Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}) and Almahmoud (USA) (Mahmoud {Fr}) family strains - Machiavellian (USA), Halo (USA), Northern Dancer (Can) and Danehill (USA).
He can count amongst his relations fellow Group 1 winners Grand Armee (Hennessy {USA}), Yourdeel (Dundeel {NZ}), Dealer Principal (Flying Spur) and Absolute Champion (Marauding {NZ}).
G1 Neds Might And Power, $1,000,000, 2000m
Group 1 number four for tough mare Probabeel (NZ) (Savabeel) who turned the tables on Zaaki (GB) (Leroidesanimaux {Bzl}) having previously run second to that import in the G1 Underwood S.
Bred by Garry Chittick, she is one of her Waikato Stud-based G1 W.S Cox Plate winning sire's 116 stakes winners. Sadly she is the one and only foal produced by the Group 3-placed three-time winner Far Fetched (Pins) who died young.
Probabeel is bred on a 6 X 6 cross of Todman (Star Kingdom), also boasting a strain of his full brother Noholme II (Star Kingdom), the terrific mare Oceana (Ire) (Colombo {GB}) duplicated.
She hails from the same branch of the Gibside Fairy (GB) (Hermes {GB}) family as the Group winners Savvy Coup (NZ) (Savabeel), Legless Veuve (NZ) (Pins), Tootsie (NZ) (Pins), Ocean Emperor (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}), Bellacontte (NZ) (Burgundy {NZ}) and Never Been Kissed (NZ) (Tivaci) who went close to making it a family Group 1 double finishing second in the Spring Champion S.
G1 Hyland Racing Colours Toorak H., $1,000,000, 1600m
I'm Thunderstruck (NZ) (Shocking) made up for a luckless G1 Sir Rupert Clarke S. placing with a determined victory, his fifth from just eight starts.
Bred in New Zealand by Mr T Forlong & Ms J Jones he is the 15th stakes winner and second Group 1 winner for Rich Hill Stud's G1 Melbourne Cup winner Shocking (Street Cry {Ire}).
His dam, the lightly raced Primadonna Girl (Edenwold) is doing a great job - this fellow is just her second foal, with her first being the G2-placed Hong Kong winner Cantstopthefeeling (NZ) (Swiss Ace).
Served last spring by Ocean Park (NZ) having produced a Charm Spirit (Ire) colt last September, Primadonna Girl is out of a half-sister to the stakes-placed Samudera (NZ) (Straight Strike {USA}).
Hailing from the family of the multiple Group winner Reno Belle (NZ) (Balmerino {NZ}), he is line-bred to the close relations Northern Dancer (Can) and Halo (USA), also boasting a strain of Machiavellian (USA) from that same family.
G2 Lexus Schillaci S., $300,000, 1100m
The first winner for his sire who now resides in Ireland, Savatoxl (Kuroshio) was also the former Darley stallion's first (and to date only) Group 1 winner when he outsped his rivals in the Goodwood H. in May.
Straight into form at his first run for the spring, the Carrington Park-bred gelding is one of Australia's most prolific winners, with this latest success his 17th from 31 starts.
He is a son of the placed Li'L Miss Hayley (NZ) (Savabeel), also dam of the multiple city winner Karpacz/Pretty Bauhinia (Danzero) who has been successful in Melbourne and Hong Kong.
Served last spring by Needs Further with her most recent foal (a 2-year-old filly) being by that same stallion, Li'L Miss Hayley is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Total Response (NZ) (Kheleyf {USA}) and to the dam of Group 3 winners Perfect Start (NZ) (Perfectly Ready) and Art Beat (NZ) (Captain Rio {GB}); in turn dam of the Listed winner Art De Triomphe (NZ) (Vadamos {Fr}).
Within seven generations Savatoxl boasts duplications of the outstanding mares Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}), Flower Bowl (USA) (Alibhai {GB}) and Somethingroyal (USA) (Princequillo {Ire}).
G2 Neds Herbert Power S., $300,000, 2400m
Now a Group winner in both hemispheres, Delphi (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) did his late, great sire proud impressing en route to a crack at the big spring Cups.
The second of Saturday's Caulfield S. winners (Kiki Express the other) descending from the legendary Pretty Polly (GB) (Gallinule {GB}), the Coolmore-bred Delphi is a son of the G3 Balanchine S. winner Bye Bye Birdie who has also produced the Group 2-placed Credenza by the same sire.
Closely related to the G1 Hong Kong Cup winner Eagle Mountain (GB) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), Delphi boasts crosses of the terrific mares Thong (USA) (Nantallah {USA}), Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}) and Sister Sarah (GB) (Abbots Trace {Ire}); his seventh dam whose grandson is Northern Dancer's (Can) sire Nearctic (Can).
G3 Thoroughbred Club S., $200,000, 1200m
Sneaky Five (Fastnet Rock) remains undefeated thanks to a fast-finishing first-up victory, her first at stakes level.
Bred by Goldin Australia and purchased by Rosemont Stud for $305,000 at the 2020 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, she has always shown plenty of ability - which led to dam Small Minds (Canny Lad) changing hands for $410,000 last November (purchased by Sandhurst Bloodstock).
Sadly Small Minds, who won four races including the G1 Australasian Oaks at Morphettville, has not had a great deal of luck in recent years - recently producing a dead foal by Grunt (NZ) having missed last spring.
She does however have a 2-year-old, the $525,000 Adelaide Magic Millions graduate Charlesfort (also by Fastnet Rock) trialling for the Annabel Neasham stable only recently.
Her Coolmore Stud-based Champion Sire Fastnet Rock's 179th stakes winner, Sneaky Five is the second stakes winner for her dam whose daughter Beautiful Mind (So You Think {NZ}) won the Listed Jungle Dawn Classic.
Small Minds, who provided her sire Canny Lad with his 86th stakes winner as a broodmare sire, is a half-sister to the stakes winner Marwin Gold (Marwina) who was so tough winning 20 of his 85 starts.
Carrying crosses of Nijinsky II (Can) and Biscay, Sneaky Five is bred on the same Fastnet Rock/Canny Lad cross as the Group 1 mare Shoals (Fastnet Rock).
G3 SENET Northwood Plume S., $200,000, 1200m
A rise in class proved no hindrance for Dirty Thoughts (So You Think {NZ}) who was game to the line breaking through for her first stakes victory.
She is stakes winner number 36 for Coolmore Stud's in-form dual G1 W.S Cox Plate winner So You Think (NZ). Bred in Queensland by Mr S Hume, she was a bargain purchase for Ellerton Zahra Racing who picked her up for just $16,000 at the 2019 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
She is one of three winners (from her first four foals) for the unraced Sheer Fantazee (Testa Rossa), half-sister to the triple Group winner Grey Song (Unbridled's Song {USA}) and the Group 3 galloper Tonz More Fun (More Than Ready {USA}).
Missing upon a return visit to So You Think (NZ) last spring, Sheer Fantazee has runners by Choisir and Kermadec to come.
The 20th stakes winner for Testa Rossa as a broodmare sire, Dirty Thoughts is bred on a 4 X 4 cross of Fairy Bridge (USA) (Bold Reason {USA}) via her sons Sadler's Wells (USA) and Perugino (USA).
Listed The Big Screen Company Weekend Hussler, $175,000, 1400m
Bred by Nearco Stud Limited, Kahma Lass (NZ) is the daughter of The Oaks Stud's stalwart Darci Brahma (NZ) - one of her sire's 53 stakes winners - and was purchased by David Ellis for NZ$290,000 from Book 1 at the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale.
She hails from a terrific Australian family, her stakes-placed city winning dam Distinctive Lass (Orientate {USA}) also produced stakes winners Distinctive Darci (also by Darci Brahma {NZ}), Kuro (Denman) and Southern Lad (Ocean Park {NZ}).
Last spring paying another visit to Darci Brahma (NZ), Distinctive Lass is a granddaughter of the very fast and very classy Special (Habituate {Ire}).
A three-time Group 1-winning sprinter who held the Flemington 1000 metre record for many years (until Black Caviar came along), Special did a great job at stud with her nine winners including stakes winners Stavka (Xaar {GB}) and Specialize (Bluebird {USA}).
Special is also grandam of the durable triple Group 1 winner Bomber Bill (Air de France {USA}) and fellow stakes winners Camargue (Air de France {USA}) and Special Song (Song Of Tara {Ire}) and Demographic (NZ) (Gold Brose).
Listed Ned Village Stakes, $175,000, 1200m
The Group 1 Manikato S. bound Lombardo (I Am Invincible) was tough to the line recording his sixth win from just ten starts.
Purchased by co-trainer Mick Price for $300,000 at the 2018 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale with co-breeder Burnewang North's Cathy Hains remaining in the ownership, Lombardo is stakes winner number 66 for her Yarraman Park-based star sire.
Also bred by Orpheo Pty Ltd, Lombardo is the second black-type performer for his stakes-placed multiple city-winning dam Swinging Babe (Encosta de Lago), also dam of the stakes-placed Resistant (Choisir).
A half-sister to the durable stakes-placed Larson, a ten-time winner by Distorted Humor {USA}, and from the family of stakes winners Carnelian (Tinterosse {Fr}) and Rebel Bride (Telesto {USA}), Swinging Babe was retired from stud duties in 2019 with her final foal being the Hawkesbury maiden winner Dream Eclipse (Dream Ahead {USA}).
Lombardo boasts a cross of the G1 Kentucky Oaks heroine Lalun (USA) via her sons Never Bend (USA) and Bold Reason (USA) whilst her grandam Slashing Sort (Blazing Sword) is line-bred to Vain's grandam Rarcamba (Helios {GB}).
