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Several runners with strong links to former Guineas winners and placegetters
Anyone who as kept an eye on the Thousand Guineas lead-ups races would be across the rich link that Waltz On By has to the 1600-metre Group 1.
By I Am Invincible, the Peter Moody-trained filly is out of Stay With Me (Street Cry), the Thousand Guineas winner of 2015 who is daughter of 2006 Guineas heroine Miss Finland (Redoute's Choice).
But Waltz On By is not the only runner in Wednesday's $1 million feature who is a granddaughter of a former winner with the horse she narrowly denied last start in the Group 3 Jim Moloney Stakes (1400m) boasting a similar family tree.
Jenny Jerome is by Churchill out of Tortoni, who is the result of a union between Strategic and Whisked, who won the Guineas 32 years ago.
The Guineas was one of three wins in a 21-start career for Whisked, who also won the Tea Rose Stakes (1500m) and Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) at Group 2 level.
But for all her achievements on the track, Whisked is perhaps best-known for producing a horse who has won more Group 1s than all bar Winx, Black Caviar, Kingston Town, Sunline and Melody Belle.
Tie The Knot (Nassipour), a 13-time Group 1 winner, was the second foal from Whisked, who went on to have an additional 11 named foals, the last of whom was Tortoni.
Her only win from four starts came in a 1000m Wagga maiden, but she has already proven herself a handy broodmare.
First foal Café Tortoni (Reset) is a six-time winner, second foal Torsiton also won, while Cherry Tortoni counts the Group 2 Moonee Valley Vase (2040m) among six wins in a career that also includes a second placing in the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m).
Jenny Jerome and Waltz On By are a number of runners in this year's Guineas who have strong family ties with one of the most prestigious three-year-old fillies races on the calendar.
1 – Russian Conquest (Russian Revolution x My Conquestadory): Member of the first crop of Newgate's Champion First Season Sire from last year who is out of a Group 1-winning American mare by Artie Schiller and cost $425,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale.
2 – Revolutionary Miss (Russian Revolution x Purcentage): Another daughter of the son of Snitzel who sold on the Gold Coast, this one for $195,000. She has links to the Thousand Guineas with her dam Purcentage (Onemorenomore) a daughter of Spurcent (Flying Spur) who finished third in 2003 Thousand Guineas won by Special Harmony.
3 – She's Licketysplit (Turn Me Loose x She's Slinky): A Kiwi homebred, she became the first Group 1 winner for Turn Me Loose, who stands at Windsor Park Stud, which is where one of her breeders, Nick Hewson, is employed. She is the best of four named-foals from the Handsome Ransom mare She's Slinky, a four-time winner whose family incudes multiple Group-winning stayers.
4 – Boogie Dancer (Sooboog x Set For Fame): Already the best-performed product of Sooboog on account of her win in the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m), the $50,000 Inglis Premier graduate is striving to become the first Group 1 winner for the son of Snitzel. Out of a Quest For Fame mare who is a three-quarter-sister to Group 2 Apollo Stakes (1400m) winner and Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1400m) winner Impaler and counts a half-sister to Danewin and Commands as her third dam.
5 – North Star Lass (Zoustar x Sheila's Star): A $260,000 Magic Millions but who is out of a daughter of the former flying machine Northeast Sheila, a sister to former Thousand Guineas fourth placegetter Dashing Granada. She is the dam of one-time Thousand Guineas favourite Celebrity Girl, who finished seventh in the 2011 edition, and is in turn the dam of Group 1 winner Instant Celebrity, who finished third in the Guineas two years ago.
6 – Waltz On By (I Am Invincible x Stay With Me): See above
7 – Madame Pommery (No Nay Never x Cancel): Daughter of Coolmore's son of Scat Daddy, who is having a golden run in the Norther Hemisphere but is still chasing his maiden Australian Group 1 success. Hails from a strong Darley family being out a sister to Earthquake and sold for $150,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale.
8 – Moko (Impending x Zubbaya): Godolphin homebred who is by a son of Caulfield Guineas winner Lonhro out of a Dubawi mare who was a winner of the Listed Alexandra Stakes (1600m) at The Valley.
9 – Jenny Jerome (Churchill x Tortoni): See above
10 – Tajneed (I Am Invincible x Roudha): Like Waltz On By, the Emirates Park homebred is a daughter of Australia's reigning champion sire, out of a Galileo mare who is a daughter of two-time Group 1 winner Melito (Redoute's Choice), the runner-up to Irish Lights in the 2009 Thousand Guineas.
11 – She's Pretty Rich (Written Tycoon x Pretty Snitzel): A $70,000 Magic Millions weanling buy for Matthew Brown who is by an Australian Champion Sire out of a daughter of a four-time winner of Champion Sire award who is a half-sister to South African star Whisky Baron, who won from 1200m to 2000m including the Group 1 Sun Met.
