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Morphettville: G3 Behemoth S., $150,000, 1200m
What a terrific mare See You In Heaven (Divine Prophet) is - having been in such great form over the spring, she took off where she left off with this determined first-up victory.
Wearing down the brave leader Savatoxl (Kuroshio), the 4-year-old recorded the fifth win of her 12-start career, one which has also seen her figure in the placings on five occasions.
Bred by Aquis Farm and G1G Racing And Breeding, See You In Heaven made her way through the sales ring on two occasions, fetching $27,000 as a Magic Millions Gold Coast National weanling (purchased by Kestrel Thoroughbreds) and $90,000 as a Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling, bought by her trainers Richard and Chantelle Jolly.
See You In Heaven hails from the second crop of her Highview Farm, New Zealand-based G1 Caulfield Guineas-winning sire and is one of his two stakes winners.
Not served last spring after producing a Toronado (Ire) colt in mid-November, See You In Heaven's dam is the dual city winner Shine On Anna (Anabaa {USA}). She has produced another four winners including the metropolitan winners Annaman (Mossman) and Alaskan Sun (Hinchinbrook).
Her yet to be named 2-year-old son was a good sales result for his current owner Andrew Wilson who paid $6000 for him few years ago - the colt by Cliff's Edge fetching $210,000 to the bid of Maddie Raymond and John Foote Bloodstock (FBAA) at this year's Magic Millions.
Shine On Anna is out of the stakes-placed Shine On Me (Ire) (Machiavellian {USA}), a daughter of the stakes-placed Seranda (Ire) (Petoski {GB}).
A descendant of the star mare Pearl Cap (Fr) (Le Capucin {Fr}), See You In Heaven can boast amongst her relations the Group 1 gallopers Contributer (Ire) and Shaka (GB) (Exit To Nowhere {USA}) as well as this year's G1 Epsom Derby runner-up King Of Steel (USA) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), winner of the G2 King Edward S. at Royal Ascot.
See You In Heaven is bred on a 5 X 3 Danzig (USA) cross whilst also carrying duplications of the influential mares Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}), Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}) and Almahmoud (USA) (Mahmoud {Fr}).
Rosehill: Listed The Rosebud, $200,000, 1100m
Breaking her maiden in fine style, Tiz Invincible (I Am Invincible) put another feather into the impressive cap worn by the wonderful mare Anamato (Redoute's Choice) - a Group 1 winner, the dam of a multiple Group 1 winner and now the grandam of a stakes winner.
Out of a half-sister to Anamoe who is being readied to serve his first book of mares at Darley, Tiz Invincible was bred by Phoenix Thoroughbreds and sold through the Segenhoe Thoroughbreds draft for $550,000 Bahen Bloodstock, Ciaron Maher Racing and Eric Lucas at the 2022 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
The 98th stakes winner for her Yarraman Park-based sire who recently secured his second Australian Champion Sire title, Tiz Invincible is the second foal (the first to race) produced by Anamato's Northern Hemisphere-bred daughter Amuletum (GB) (New Approach {Ire}).
Also the dam of Royal Mule, a yet to race Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained 4-year-old son of Kingman (GB), Amuletum raced seven times for the Peter Chapple-Hyam stable. Raced by the late Paul Makin, she was an odds-on favourite when claiming her only victory - a Leicester Class 5 contest in which she put 10l on her rivals.
Arriving in Australian in 2018, she has had two colts since producing Tiz Invincible - a yet to be named 2-year-old colt by Pierata (a $200,000 Magic Millions purchase this year for Justin Fang and Aquis Stallions) and a yearling colt by I Am Invincible. She was served last spring by Aclaim (Ire).
Amuletum is one of the four winners produced by the G1 Australasian Oaks winner Anamato whose daughter Anamba (GB) (Shamardal {USA}) is a Listed winner in Ireland. Still at stud at Godolphin, Anamato was served by Street Boss (USA) last spring having missed to him the previous season. Her most recent foal is the 2-year-old Blue Willow (Blue Point {Ire}).
Tiz Invincible is the 11th I Am Invincible stakes winner line-bred to Canny Lad of whom she boasts a 3 X 5 cross. She also carries duplications of the outstanding mares Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}), Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}) and Relance (Fr) (Relic {USA}).
Belmont: Listed Belmont Newmarket, $125,000, 1200m
Digging deep as he was challenged late by the roughie Comes A Time (Sessions), Phanta (Gingerbread Man) put on display the qualities that have enabled him to build such a good record - this success his seventh from 17 starts.
Sent out favourite on the back of his previous start success in the Listed H.G Bolton S., Phanta reaffirmed his liking for the Belmont circuit - all but one of his wins coming at the track.
Bred by Scenic Lodge Thoroughbred Stud, Phanta was a bargain $5000 purchase by Justin Warwick from the Scenic Lodge draft at the 2019 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale (Book 2).
One of the seven winners for his Yarradale Stud-based sire who was crowned the Champion 2- and 3-Year-Old of Singapore, Phanta is the second foal produced by the unraced Dubi Dubi Do (Dubai Destination {USA}) whose first to race - also by Gingerbread Man - is the multiple city winner Ginger Flyer.
No longer in the Stud Book, Dubi Dubi Do has just one more foal - the yet to place 5-year-old Dashfordollars (Dash For Cash).
Dubi Dubi Do's unraced dam Just Friends (Snaadee {USA}) is a daughter of the classy and gutsy mare Not Related (Family Ties {USA}) who won 12 of her 51 starts including the G1 VRC Sires' Produce S., the G3 Frances Tressady S., the G3 Diamond Jubilee S. and the G3 Christmas H.
Also from this family is the G2 Theo Marks S. winner Riva De Lago (Encosta De Lago).
