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Mare becomes Sebring’s sixth elite level winner.
The Wendy Roche-trained Nettoyer (6 m ex Cleanup, by Dehere) landed a shock win in the Doncaster Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) and in the process provided the late Widden Stud-based sire Sebring (More Than Ready) with his sixth Group 1 winner.
The six-year-old mare won the Aspiration Handicap (Gr 3, 1600m) in March, before finishing a good fourth behind Addeybb (Pivotal) in the Ranvet Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) and she motored home to beat Star Of The Seas (Ocean Park) by half a length, handing her trainer Roche and jockey James Innes Jnr with their first elite level winner.
"I was still trying to catch my breath getting her to the gates. She began only fair. Me and Wendy thought we would be a couple of pairs closer," Innes Jnr said.
"She just isn't a horse you can drive the brains out of for the entire mile so I just left her alone. There were obviously runners venturing into the race three or for wide, the more I straightened up, the more confident I was getting. It still hasn't kicked in."
Purchased for $20,000 at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in 2015, before failing to make her reserve of $80,000 at the Inglis Ready2Run Sale, Nettoyer is one of four winners out of two time-winning mare Cleanup (Dehere), who is herself a half-sister to Group 3 winner She's Clean (Redoute's Choice).
The mare's third dam is Keltshaan (Pleasant Colony), who produced Grade 1 winner Kinshasa No Kiseki (Fuji Kiseki), while she is the grandam of Group 1-winning pair Abbey Marie (Redoute's Choice) and Absolutely (Redoute's Choice) and Group 3 winner Runaway (Manhattan Rain).
In 2018, Cleanup produced a filly by I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) and she has most recently been covered by The Autumn Sun (Redoute's Choice).
The mare joins Dissident, Criterion, Egg Tart, Amphitrite and Lucky Bubble's as Sebring's other elite level winners. The son of More Than Ready (Southern Halo) died at Widden Stud last February.
