G3 Coupland's Bakeries Mile, NZ$250,000, 1600m
Too tough in front, Puntura (NZ) (Vespa {NZ}) packed too many punches for his rivals as he recorded his ninth win - and his first at stakes level.
The fifth stakes winner for his Mapperley Stud-based, Group 1-winning sire, Puntura is a homebred for Carole and John Lynskey out of their two-time winning mare Mumzahoney (NZ) (Magic Of Sydney) who has produced another three winners.
Retired from stud duties with her final foal being a full brother to Puntura foaled last year, Mumzahoney hails from the family of the stakes winners Foxbay (NZ) (Zephyr Bay), Ellakapella (NZ) (Pompeii Court {USA}), Warrentherooster (NZ) (Savabeel) and Jason Belltree (NZ) (Ferlax {NZ}).
G3 Canterbury Breeders' S., NZ$120,000, 1400m
Charging home late to continue a stellar run for Te Akau Racing, Fashion Shoot (NZ) (Savabeel) was a deserved winner at Group 3 level having recording placings in similar company on two occasions.
The 136th stakes winner for her Waikato Stud-based, G1 WS Cox Plate-winning sire, she was bred by the Forbes family and Waikato Stud and sold by them to David Ellis for NZ$320,000 at the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale.
She is the second foal for the dual Group 3 winner High Fashion (NZ) (O'Reilly {NZ}) whose first foal is the stakes-placed, multiple city winner Savvy Valentino (NZ) (Savabeel).
Served last spring by Savabeel's son Noverre (NZ), High Fashion foaled a Super Seth colt last year, missing to that same stallion the previous year with her only other live foal being the yet-to-race 3-year-old Fashion Savvy (NZ) - another Savabeel.
High Fashion is a daughter of the stakes-placed, three-time winner Pin High (NZ) (Pins), half-sister to the G2 Waikato Gold Cup and Listed Geelong Cup winner Ultimate Aim (NZ) (Centaine).
Fashion Shoot is the 28th Savabeel stakes winner out of a mare by O'Reilly (NZ) - a cross which has produced eight Group 1 winners.
