Ascot: G2 Perth Cup, $500,000, 2400m
Aided by a daring ride - Shaun Mcgruddy taking off from before the turn - Buster Bash (Trade Fair {GB}) justified his equal favouritism with this dominant performance.
Bred by Alwyn Park and passed in for just $5000 at the 2019 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, Buster Bash is now a triple stakes winner having also taken out last year's Listed GA Towton Cup and the Listed Luckgray S.
Hailing from the penultimate crop of his sire who died in 2018, he is one of that Zafonic (USA) stallion’s 18 stakes winners.
Buster Bash is one of the six winners (from seven to race) for the unraced Disco Miss (Zeditave) who has also produced the city winners Maschino Miss (Maschino), Western Star (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) and Awesome Chatter (Awesome Rock).
A half-sister to the stakes-placed gallopers Lord Prevail (USA) (Woodman {USA}) and Handsome Hansel (Can) (Hansel {USA}), Disco Miss was served last spring by Awesome Rock having foaled a Jimmy Choux (NZ) colt in October.
Her previous foal is a Gingerbread Man filly whilst her 2-year-old is the yet to race Adam Durrant-trained Disco Kicks (Snippetson).
Bred on a 4 X 3 cross of The Minstrel (Can), Buster Bash is a descendant of the influential mare Boudoir II (GB) (Mahmoud {Fr}) - also ancestress of His Majesty (USA), dam sire of Danehill (USA) - in turn dam sire of Trade Fair (GB).
Another of Boudoir II's descendants is Crowned Prince (USA), dam sire of Buster Bash's dam sire Zeditave.
Listed Miss Andretti S., $125,000, 1100m
It was a second stakes win in a row for the fast and talented How's The Serenity (Magnus), winner of nine of her 21 starts.
Bred by Martin's Park Investments Trust and purchased from the Scenic Lodge draft at the 2019 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale for $40,000 by Simon Miller, How's The Serenity is one of the 27 stakes winners for her G1 The Galaxy-winning, Widden Victoria-based sire.
She is one of three winners for the stakes-placed, multiple city winner Sweet Serenity (Pearl Of Love {Ire}), half-sister to the Listed Challenge S. winner Private Dancer (Oratorio).
How's The Serenity hails from a classy family, able to boast amongst her relations the Group 1 winners Leica Guv (NZ) (Deputy Governor {USA}), Pharaoh (NZ) (Sackford {USA}) and Light Fantastic (Danehill Dancer {Ire}).
One of the 14 Magnus stakes winners line-bred to Mr Prospector (USA), she also carries crosses of the great mares Somethingroyal (USA) (Princequillo {Ire}) and Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}).
Flemington: G3 Standish H., $250,000, 1200m
Reaffirming his liking of the Flemington straight, Snapper (NZ) (Power {GB}) defied all challengers leading throughout to record his first stakes-level victory.
A timely win it was too, the talented gelding bred by Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan - a nice tribute.
Purchased by Paul Moroney Bloodstock and Ballymore Stables for NZ$60,000 from the Cambridge Stud draft at the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale, Snapper is the 25th stakes winner for his Oaklands Stud-based, dual Group 1-winning sire.
He is the first foal for the stakes-placed, four-time winner Onlyarose (NZ) (One Cool Cat {USA}) who has also produced the stakes-placed Fireglow (NZ) (Tavistock {NZ}).
Served in 2021 (no Stud Book return logged as yet) by Savabeel, Onlyarose is a half-sister to the G2 Concorde H. winner Taimana (NZ) (Woodman {USA}) out of Abbaye (Ahonoora {GB}) whose dam is the terrific matriarch Cotehele House (GB) (My Swanee {GB}), the best producing daughter of the mighty Eight Carat (GB) (Pieces Of Eight {Ire}).
Bred on a 4 X 3 cross of Ahoonora (GB) and a 7 X 6 cross of the great mare Somethingroyal (USA) (Princequillo {Ire}), Snapper is the 29th stakes-winning descendant of Cotehele House and the 66th for Eight Carat.
