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Coup Ay Tee became the 14th stakes winner Danehill’s late NZ-based sire Danske when he won the Listed Winter Challenge at Rosehill on Saturday.
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Danske (Danehill x Out Tristalight, by Sir Tristram), a G1 winner of the NZ 2000 Guineas in 1998, died in 2009 after standing foe 10 years at Windsor Park Stud.
Coup Ay Tee, a homebred for leading NZ owner-breeder Ray Coupland, has now won eight races for earnings of over $401,300.
He started his career in NZ where he won a Wingatui maiden win for trainer Michael Pitman in 2011 before he was sent to Chris Waller in Sydney.
His dam Flying Coup (Tuscany Flyer) was a Listed winner of the Canterbury Belle Stakes and her only other winner has been Coup Flyer (Darci Brahma).
Her dam is the imported stakes placed mare Blue Blarney (Big Bluffer), a half-sister to the US stakes winners Ban The Blues (Nose
For Money), Blue Baton (Tonkaton) and Bold Blue (If This Be So).Flying Coup has a 3YO colt by Sakhee’s Secret and a 2YO filly by Darci Brahma.
• KARLA Bruni became the 52nd stakes winner for her sire Pins in the G3 Winter Cup at Riccarton on Saturday.
The six-year-is also the 4th stakes winner bred on the Pins/Centaine cross, being out of Cantanta.
Karla Bruni is trained at Awapuni by part-owner Roydon Bergerson and was passed in for $NZ36,000 at the 2009 NZB Premier Yearling Sale at Karaka.