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Belmont: G3 Hyperion S., $200,000, 1600m
Getting up in a tight and exciting finish, Magnificent Andy (Magnus) was the second of the day’s stakes winners (Just Folk the first) for his much missed sire. A home-bred for D.J Reed, last year’s Listed Hannan’s H. winner has won ten of his 28 starts.
One of his sire’s 28 stakes winners, he is out of the stakes placed three times winner Yaloginda (Trade Fair {GB}). Slipping last spring to Maschino having foaled a Manhattan Rain colt in mid-October, Yaloginda has a yet to race 2-year-old called Malginda (Al Maher) whilst her 3-year-old daughter Deferred (Epaulette) has been close up at her first three starts for the Miller stable.
Yaloginda is a half-sister to the stakes placed Kamballie (Blackfriars) whose son Kallaroo (All American) won the Listed Fairetha S. Bred on a 3 X 4 cross of Danehill (USA), Magnificent Andy can also count amongst his relations the stakes winners Rezone (Electronic Zone {USA}), Danyon (Success Express {USA}) and Las Ramblas (SAF) (Toreador {Ire}).
Wanganui: Listed Castletown S., NZ$80,000, 1200m
The first leg of a stakes winning double for her sire - and one of his 11 stakes winners - Belardi Boy (NZ) (Belardo {Ire}) looked good recording her second win from just three starts.
A home-bred for The Sunlight Trust, she is one of the five winners (from as many foals) for the placed Japonica (Encosta de Lago) - also dam of the Group 3 winner Moonlight Magic (NZ) (Almanzor {Fr}).Served last spring by Almanzor after foaling a Saxon Warrior (Jpn) colt, Japonica is a half-sister to the Group 3 placed South African based galloper Main Dane (Fastnet Rock).Her grandam is the city winner Rose Of Tralee (Sadler’s Wells {USA}) whose nine winners include the triple Group 1 winner Serenade Rose (Stravinsky {USA}).
Part of the Arrowfield Sadler’s Wells experiment in the early 1990s, Rose Of Tralee is also ancestress of the dual Group 1 winner Trekking (Street Cry {Ire}) and the stakes winners Egot (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Winnie Star (Medaglia d’Oro {USA}) and Tralee Rose (NZ) (Tavistock {NZ}).
Listed AGC Training S., NZ$80,000, 1600m
The second leg of a stakes winning double for his dual Group 1 winning sire who shuttled to Haunui Farm on six occasions, Belardo Boy (NZ) (Belardo {Ire}) was tough recording the ninth win of his 36 starts.
A $28,000 purchase for the Lisa Latta stable from the Haunui Farm draft at the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale (Book 2), Belardo Boy is one of the 11 stakes winners for his sire who now calls Bearstone Stud (UK) home. Bred by J E Fokerd & Haunui Farm, he is the second stakes performer for the Group 3 placed multiple city winner L'Amour (NZ) (Towkay), also dam of the stakes placed Cheveux (NZ) - also by Belardo.
Served last spring by Hello Youmzain (Fr) after foaling an Ace High filly (and an Eminent {Ire} filly the year before, L'Amour hails from the family of the stakes winners Julinsky Princess (NZ) (Stravinsky {USA}), Julinsky Prince (NZ) (Darci Brahma {NZ}), Nudge (Fastnet Rock), Unknown Heights (NZ) (Kaapstad {NZ}), Dontellthewife (NZ) (Volksraad {GB}) and Excuse My French (French Deputy {USA}).
Belardo Boy is a descendant of the influential Democratie (Fr) (Epinard {Fr}) as are the prolific stallions Red Ransom (USA) and Showdown (GB).
