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Promising two-year-old Passing Shot completed a memorable week for his sire Swiss Ace when he won the premier juvenile race at Trentham on Saturday.
Swiss Ace was credited with his first Australian winner last Wednesday when House Of Hingis scored at Kyneton, He now boasts three winners from six runners after the first of his progeny Staccato won in NZ in January.
Passing Shot, trained by Stephen McKee, put himself in contention for a start in the G1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes with his Trentham success.
Passing Shot, bred and sold by Westbury Stud for $NZ50,000 at last year’s NZB Select Sale at Karaka, is from the Danehill mare Derrydane and is related to triple G1 winner Shotgun Lodge and other G1 winners Singing The Blues and Referral.
House Of Hingis became the first Australian winner for Swiss Ace when she won at Kyneton on March 12.
Houe Of Hings (Swiss Ace x Tempo Manor by General Nediym) was a $65,000 Gold Coast yearling, selling for nearly 11 times more than her sire cost at the same age.
Bred by Emirates Park in NSW, Swiss Ace was sold to Gainsborough Lodge as a weanling at the Gold Coast for y $8500 and then resold for only $6000 at the Brisbane Yearling Sale.
It was remarkably low price considering his breeding as he is by Secret Savings from the US-bred mare Rapid Serve, an unraced daughter of Carson City (Mr. Prospector) and Tennis Partner, a sister by Northern Dancer to champion English sprinter Ajdal.
Tennis Partner is also a three-quarter sister to Danseur Fabuleux, dam of world champion 2-year-old Arazi and Noverre, a leading European miler.
There are more than 50 stakes winners world wide under the first three dams.
Swiss Ace, trained in Queensland by Mick Mair, rose up to be a leading Australian sprinter, earning $952,000 from 2 wins in 20 starts, including the G1 Oakleigh Plate (Flemington), G2 Byrne Hart Stakes (Eagle Farm) twice, the Weetwood (Toowoomba) and Chief de Beers (Doomben).
He also finished a head second in the G1 bNewmarket (Flemington) and a nose in the Vo Rogue (Doomben) and fourth in the Galaxy (Randwick).
Gerry Harvey’s Baramul Stud bought him as a sire and installed him in NZ at his Westbury Stud at Papakura near Auckland.
House of Hingis, having only her second start for trainer Peter Moody, could be a valuable filly as she is from the Harvey bred and raced Sydney winner Tempo Manor, a product of Lady Lanham, a Danehill great grandaughter of Denise’s Joy.
A $65,000 Magic Millions purchase from the draft of Baramul Stud, House of Hingis is the first winner for Tempo Manor, a half-sister by General Nediym to G3 winner Ready to Rip.