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Ascot: G1 Northerly S., $1,500,000, 1800m
A classy and tough campaigner who had been in the thick of things at his first two runs this campaign, Dom To Shoot (Shooting To Win) is a new Group 1 winner with his previous success at stakes level being the G3 Northam S. in April.
A homebred for Mr HW Daly, he is one of the 10 stakes winners for his Oakland Park Stud-based, G1 Caulfield Guineas-winning sire and his second Group 1 winner - his first on Australian soil (his other Mascarpone {NZ} a winner in New Zealand).
Bred on a 4 X 4 cross of Fappiano (USA) - the 41st Group 1 winner line-bred to him - Dom To Shoot is out of the placed Princess Rouge (NZ) (Pins), full sister to the Listed Bunbury S. winner Pin Rouge (NZ) (Pins).
In September foaling a colt by Playing God having missed the two previous seasons, Princess Rouge has a 3-year-old Capitalist filly called Princess In Red. Also a member of the Sean and Jake Casey stable, she was second in a recent Belmont trial.
The Caseys also train Princess Rouge's 4-year-old Cavallo Red (So You Think {NZ}) who broke his maiden at Belmont in July; finishing second in a Belmont trial on the same day as Princess In Red.
Dom To Shoot can count amongst his relations the Group 1 winners Vision And Power (NZ) (Carnegie {Ire}), Glamour Puss (NZ) (Tale Of The Cat {USA}), Steps In Time (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and Espiona (Extreme Choice).
Listed GA Towton Cup, $125,000, 2200m
It was a good race for the Pearce stable with a one/two finish, Black Fantasy (Blackfriars) finding plenty to defeat Queen Alina (Mahuta).
A five-time winner from 18 starts, Black Fantasy - who won two Listed races last year - is one of his late sire's 48 stakes winners.
Bred by Scenic Lodge Thoroughbred Stud and purchased from their draft by Pearce Racing for $36,000 at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale (Book 2), Black Fantasy hails from his G1 VRC Derby-winning sire's final crop.
He is the second foal produced by the Ascot winner Dreamalong (Southern Image {USA}) whose first foal is the Belmont 2000-metre winner Frequent Friar (also by Blackfriars).
Missing the last two years, Dreamalong has the yet-to-race 2-year-old Runalong Way (Magnus) in the Takahide Ikenushi stable.
Dreamalong's dam is the talented Listed Bolton Sprint winner Cool Business (Key Business) who did such a great job winning 13 of her 29 starts.
All six of her foals to race were winners including the dual Group 3 winner Shining Knight (also by Blackfriars) and the stakes-placed Intimidator (Flying Spur).
This is one of Western Australia's most prolific families, its other members including the stakes winners Marasco (Scenic {Ire}), Hot Shot Brother (Key Business), Siesta Bay (Scenice {Ire}) and Electric Light (Vital Equine {Ire}).
Black Fantasy is bred on the highly successful Danehill (USA)/Halo (USA) cross that provides for duplications of the prolific mother and daughter Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}) and Almahmoud (USA) (Mahmoud {Fr}).
Trentham: G1 Captain Cook S., NZ$400,000, 1600m
A good Pride Of Dubai can sure be hard to run down and Desert Lightning (NZ) just kept finding as he recorded his first win at the elite level on the back of G2 Avondale Guineas success in February.
Bred by the Mahoenui Partnership, he went through the Little Avondale Stud draft at the 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale - fetching NZ$150,000 to the bid of PJ and DM Williams.
One of the 21 stakes winner for his Coolmore Stud-based, dual Group 1 winner who enjoyed a good spring, Desert Lightning is one of the two winners (from three to race so far) for the unraced Isstoora (High Chaparral {Ire}) - also dam of the handy Singapore galloper Opunake (I Am Invincible) and the recent Moonee Valley winner Oak Hill (NZ) (Per Incanto {USA}).
Also dam of a couple of yet-to-be-named Per Incanto (USA) colts (again served by that stallion last year), Isstoora is out of the G3 SAJC Breeders' S. winner Murjana (Giant's Causeway {USA}) from the Dancing Show (USA) (Nijinsky II {Can}) branch of the prolific Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}) family.
Bred on a 3 X 4 Danehill (USA) cross with duplications of Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}), Almahmoud (USA) (Mahmoud {Fr}) and Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}), Desert Lightning can count amongst his relations the big-race winners Redoute's Choice, Manhattan Rain, Al Maher, Gathering (Tale Of The Cat {USA}), Umatilla (NZ), Hurricane Sky, Platinum Scissors, Tom Kitten (Harry Angel {Ire}) and In Italian (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}).
G2 Wakefield Challenge S., NZ$175,000, 1100m
Too professional and too fast for her rivals, the promising Captured By Love (Written Tycoon) made it two from two with this dominant performance.
Bred by Makybe Racing & Breeding and sold by Milburn Creek to David Ellis for $525,000 at this year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, she is the 59th stakes winner for her Yulong-based Champion Sire.
She is the first foal for the lightly raced Bendigo and Flemington winner Moldova (Snitzel) who produced her third foal - a filly by Toronado (Ire) in late September with her second being a colt last year by Too Darn Hot (GB).
Moldova is out of the lightly raced La Fluorescent (NZ) (General Nediym) and that dam of another three winners is a half-sister to the G2 Moonee Valley Vase and G3 Spring S. winner Savvy Nature (NZ) (Savabeel) and the G3 Ming Dynasty H. winner Addictive Nature.
Captured By Love's fourth dam is the dual Listed winner La Lagune (Danehill {USA}), grandam of the G1 NZ 1000 Guineas heroine Hasahalo (NZ) (Savabeel).
The second stakes winner (from 18 runners/nine winners) for Written Tycoon out of a Snitzel mare, Captured By Love is bred on a cross (via Try My Best {USA} and Redoute's Choice) of the wonderful mare Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}).
Pukekohe: G3 Bonecrusher S., NZ$120,000, 1400m
It may not have been a big winning margin, but it was a game win by the odds-on favourite Lupo Solitario (NZ) (Satono Aladdin {Jpn}) who kept digging when strongly challenged over the final stages by Orchestral (NZ) (Savabeel).
It was the third win from four starts for the up-and-coming 3-year-old who is the seventh stakes winner for his Rich Hill-based sire.
Bred by Rich Hill and sold by them to LJ Howl for NZ$82,500 at the 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale (Book 2), Lupo Solitario is the third foal and first winner for the placed She's Aloof (NZ) (Pentire {GB}).
Served last spring by Proisir after foaling a filly by that same stallion with her previous foal an Ace High filly, She's Aloof is a half-sister to the Listed winners Include (NZ) (Gallant Guru) and Sharp Princess (NZ) (Pins).
This is the family of the Group 1 gallopers Slight Chance (NZ) (Centaine) and Brambles (NZ) (Savabeel) and the Group winners Salgado (Danewin), Dane Shadow, Legsman (NZ) (Pins), Lincoln Blue (NZ) (Savabeel) and Traitor (Mossman).
Eagle Farm: Listed Calaway Gal S., $200,000, 1000m
She was odds-on and she won like it, Barbie's Sister (Spirit Of Boom) racing away to an easy win at just her second outing.
Bred by Eureka Stud with the Paynter family, Barbie's Sister was sold by them to Harvey Black for $300,000 at this year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
The 24th stakes winner for her Eureka-based sire, she is - as her name suggests - a full sister to her four-time Listed-winning stablemate Outback Barbie who won this same race six years ago.
Their Listed Bribie H.-winning dam Pure Purrfection (General Nediym) has also produced the city winners Purroni (Pierro) and Frosty Mango (Hinchinbrook) and she is one of the nine winners (from as many to race) for the dual Listed winner She's Purring (Flying Spur), also dam of the Listed Canterbury Classic winner Global Warning (Agnes World {USA}).
Barbie's Sister's third dam is also a stakes winner - the Listed William Crockett S. winner Ringside Lady (NZ) (Clay Hero).
Pure Purrfection produced a full brother to her stakes-winning daughters in early September, missing the previous season. Her yet to race 3-year-old Coastal Barbie - also by Spirit Of Boom - is a yet to race stablemate.
Barbie's Sister is the fifth Spirit Of Boom stakes winner (from 51 runners/36 winners) line-bred to Without Fear (Fr), the 12th (253 runners/171 winners) line-bred to Danehill (USA) and the seventh (142 runners/93 winners) line-bred to Bletchingly.
It is also interesting to note that she hails from the prolific Paraffin (GB) (Blair Athol {GB}) family - as do the sire (Sequalo) and dam of Spirit Of Boom.
Listed Phelan Ready S., $200,000, 1000m
Favourite on the back of a fast finishing second at debut, Beau Dazzler (NZ) (Ardrossan) had only three rivals but did show good heart getting the upper hand late to earn black type at just his second outing.
Bred by the Dewar Partnership, he was sold by Mapperley Stud for NZ$85,000 at this year's New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale (Book 2) - purchased by Paul Moroney Bloodstock, Catheryne Bruggeman and Sears Racing.
He is the fourth stakes winner for his Waikato Stud-based, G3 Concorde H.-winning sire, a son of Redoute's Choice. And what a great job Ardrossan is doing with this, his first crop... his four stakes winners coming from his first seven winners.
Beau Dazzler is the third foal and first winner for the unplaced Pwerfect (NZ) (Pentire {GB}) whose imported dam A Shower Of Roses (GB) (Hurricane Run {Ire}) is out of the stakes-placed Guaranda (GB) (Acatenango {Ger}) - also dam of the G3 Lillie Langtry S. winner Gravitation (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and grandam of the German Group 3 winner Good Donna (Ger) (Doyen {Ire}).
The European Champion Stayer Fame And Glory (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) and the European Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) are also members of this family.
Pwerfect has visited Adrossan at each of her last four years at stud, last spring foaling a full brother to Beau Dazzler.
Listed Bribie H., $160,000, 1000m
The second leg of a stakes double for Tony Gollan and Spirit Of Boom, All That Pizzazz was strong to the line recording the seventh win of his 14-start career - and his second at stakes level.
One of his Eureka Stud-based sire's 24 stakes winners, he is out of the unraced Pizzazz (Encosta De Lago), full sister to the dual Listed winner Order Of The Sun (successful in Melbourne and Singapore) and half-sister to the Listed winners Beauty (Smart Missile) and Get To Work (Snippets).
Bred by Stud Consultants Pty Ltd, Packaging Investments Australia, Haltrow Pty Ltd and the Bray family All That Pizzazz was a $70,000 purchase for Gollan Racing and John Foote Bloodstock (FBAA) from the Glastonbury Farms draft at the 2021 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
His dam - whose 3-year-old daughter Kaboom Kaboom (Smart Missile) broke her maiden at her latest run in Tasmania late last month - is now in New Zealand, in late September foaling a colt by Hello Youmzain (Fr) with her previous foal being a filly by Farnan.
Boasting crosses of the lovely mares Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}), Thong (USA) (Nantallah {USA}) and Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}), All That Pizzazz can count amongst his relations the stakes winners Excitable Boy (More Than Ready {USA}), Shania Dane (Danehill {USA}), Scintillation (Danehill {USA}), Risk Aversion (Encosta De Lago), Pacific Dragon (NZ) (Charm Spirit {Ire}), Northwest Passage (So You Think {NZ}), Man From Uncle (Uncle Mo {USA}) and Head Of State (American Pharoah {USA}).
Listed Just Now H., $160,000, 1300m
Making it a trio of winners for her Eureka Stud-based sire, Chatty Lady (Spirit Of Boom) is a mare who knows how to find the line, this success her seventh from 19 starts.
Bred by Raheen Stud's Nolan family, she was passed in at the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale with a reserve of $35,000.
The 25th stakes winner for Spirit Of Boom, she is out of the Eagle Farm winner She Can Command (Commands) who has also produced the city winners Georgie's Pride (Better Than Ready) and Boom Dot Com (Spirit Of Boom).
Foaling a full sister to Chatty Lady in early September, She Can Command had a Better Than Ready colt last year and an Heroic Valour filly the year before.
Chatty Lady - whose dam is bred on a Danehill (USA)/Bletchingly/Bold Lad (USA) cross (noting that Spirit Of Boom is Bold Lad/Danehill/Bletchingly) - is the first black-type performer in her family for several generations with her closest stakes-winning relation being her Listed Royal Ascot Princess Margaret S. winner Abanilla (GB) (Abernant {GB}).
