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G3 Vo Rogue Plate, $300,000, 1350m
Charging home late out wide, Cifrado (Encryption) put in a classy performance to win his third race at Group level.
Also winner of the G2 BRC Sires' Produce S. and the G2 Spirit Of Boom (Champagne) Classic, the 3-year-old has done a fine job winning four of his 12 starts - this latest success taking his prizemoney to seven figures.
Bred by Black Soil Bloodstock, he was sold by Eureka Stud - home to his dual Group-winning sire (a son of Lonhro) - to Cliff Little for $320,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
One of his sire's two stakes winners (the last start G3 Grand Prix S. winner Encoder the other), he is the third live foal and third stakes horse for the city winner Madame Fly (Excites), also dam of the Listed Eureka Stud Classic winner Miami Fleiss (Spirit Of Boom) and the stakes-placed Cochrane (Spirit Of Boom).
Sadly, Cifrado is Madame Fly's second last foal as she died after foaling a Spirit Of Boom filly in the spring of 2021. That filly was purchased by Yes Bloodstock for $475,000 at this year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and has been named Bombard - having a jump-out for the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr stable in September.
Madame Fly's dam is the stakes-placed, multiple city winner McFly (Perugino {USA}) who also produced the G3 George Moore S. winner Chapter And Verse (Rothesay) and the stakes-placed Soaring Heart (Show A Heart). And her dam Freebird (Bluebird {USA}) is also grandam of Boomsara (Spirit Of Boom) who won this same race in 2018.
Carrying three Danehill (USA) strains - Exceed And Excel, Camarena and Danewin - Cifrado is also line-bred to Eight Carat (GB) (Pieces Of Eight {Ire}) via Octagonal (NZ) and Danewin.
Listed Nudgee S., $200,000, 1200m
Gamely taking the gaps as they come, strong up along the inside of her rivals, Lady Laguna (Overshare) was in winning form at just her second run for the campaign.
The sole stakes winner for her Widden Victoria-based, G3 Zeditave S.-winning sire - a son of I Am Invincible - Lady Laguna was bred by Spendthrift Australia.
She is the second of only three foals so far for the dual city winner Catalina De Lago (NZ) (Encosta De Lago), half-sister to the G2 Edward Manifold S. winner She Will Be Loved (Strategic) out of the unraced Katie O'Neill (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}).
That half-sister to the dual Group winner Soleil Rouge (NZ) (Red Tempo {NZ}) and the G3 Metric Mile winner Black Sun (NZ) (Otehi Bay) is also grandam of the two-time Group winner Luke's Luck (Show A Heart) and third dam of the Listed Takeover Target H. winner Enchanted Heart (Show A Heart) and the G3 Percy Sykes S. winner Kristilli (Hellbent).
This is also the family of the Group 1 winners All Thrills Too (St Covet), Lucia Valentina (NZ) (Sabaveel) and Danzdanzdance (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) and of two Group 3 winners currently at stud in Australia - Swear and Extreme Warrior.
Lady Laguna boasts crosses of Fairy Bridge (USA) (Bold Reason {USA}) and her dam Special (USA) (Forli {Arg}) via Sadler's Wells (USA), Fairy King (USA) and Nureyev (USA).
Now a Kingstar Farm mare, Catalina De Lago has not had much luck in recent times - slipping her last two pregnancies with her latest foal being Lindelago (Bolt D'Oro {USA}) who sadly died having raced just the once; not disgraced in last year's G3 Ottawa S.
