G3 Vo Rogue Plate, $300,000, 1350m
Relishing the deteriorating conditions as he skipped clear in the run home, Tiger Heart (Better Than Ready) recorded the third win of his eight-start career and his first at stakes level.
Bred by Franz Wolberand and purchased by Bevan Smith Bloodstock for $85,000 at the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale, Tiger Heart is stakes winner number six for his in-form Lyndhurst Stud-based sire, a fast four-time Listed-winning son of More Than Ready (USA) (Southern Halo {USA}).
He is the first stakes winner for his classy dam Fillydelphia (Bianconi {USA}), winner of 11 races including the G3 Rough Habit Plate, the Listed Brisbane H. and the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup.
Served last spring by Merchant Navy (Fastnet Rock) having missed at her two previous years at stud (her most recent foal being a yet to be named 2-year-old by The Mission {Choisir}), Fillydelphia has as her closest stakes-winning relation the G1 Elders (Stradbroke) H. winner Dancing Poet (Yeats {USA}).
Bred on a 4 X 3 Danzig (USA) (Northern Dancer {Can}) cross, Tiger Heart is a descendant of the influential Boudoir II (GB) (Mahmoud {Fr}) from the same branch of her prolific family as the G1 W.S Cox Plate winner Our Poetic Prince (Yeats {USA}).
Listed Nudgee S., $200,000, 1200m
Already a lovely broodmare prospect, Salateen (I Am Invincible) made herself all the more valuable with this fast finishing victory, her first at stakes level and her fifth from just 16 starts.
Nice odds for her supporters, Salateen was up in class but her lead-up form had been consistent and there looks to be more to come for the daughter of Yarraman Park's high-class sire.
Stakes number 72 for I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), she is the third stakes winner from as many foals for her high-achieving dam Salma, an unraced Encosta De Lago (Fairy King {USA}) mare who was served last spring by Snitzel (Redoute's Choice).
Her first foal is the South African-based Listed winner Trojan Harbour (Harbour Watch {Ire}), her second Salateen and her third last year's G2 Stan Fox S. winner Hilal (Fastnet Rock), the Bondi winner who has been Group 1-placed on two occasions.
Bred by Emirates Park and purchased by Rosemont Stud for $300,000 at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale, Salateen has a 2-year-old half-brother - Salaasel (Fastnet Rock) in the Snowden stable and younger half-siblings by Not A Single Doubt (Redoute's Choice) and Tassort (Brazen Beau).
A half-sister to the Listed Dulcify H. winner Big Time (Danewin), Salma is a daughter of the G3 Fernhill H. winner Salameh (Secret Savings {USA}), half-sister to the G1 Australian Guineas-winning stallion Al Maher (Danehill {USA}).
This is of course the Dancing Show (USA) (Nijinsky II {Can}) branch of the prolific Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}) family, one also responsible for the superstar stallion Redoute's Choice (Danehill {USA}).
