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Miss Wilson Makes It SIx For Stratum

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Stratum, the late son of Redoute’s Choice, sired his sixth individual Group One winner when Kiwi mare Miss Wilson won the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes at Te Aroha on Saturday.

The 5YO mare Miss Wilson (Stratum x Cierzo by Centaine) is trained by John Bary who also prepared her half-brother Jimmy Choux, a multiple G1 winner and former New Zealand Horse of the Year.

Miss Wilson
Miss Wilson Picture: Trish Dunell

Golden Slipper winner Stratum stood at Widden Stud until his death in 2016.

Miss Wilson was bred and raced by Richard and Liz Wood, who have been big supporters of the Bary stable.

Miss Wilson, fourth in this race last year, won by half a length from the G1 winner Thee Auld Floozie (Mastercraftsman), who also finished runner-up in the 2017 edition of the event behind Charmont.

Miss Wilson has now won seven races and placed in seven of her 25 career starts, amassing prize money earnings in excess of $NZ325,000.

She is one of nine named foals out of the Centaine mare Cierzo, a daughter of the stakes winner Gale (Wild Rampage), who produced four winners from six foals to race and is a half-sister to G2 winner and G1 placegetter Danamite (Danasinga).

Coolmore will offer a Fastnet Rock half-sister to Miss Wilson from Cierzo at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale this week.

Quality Kiwi stayer Sir Charles Road made a triumphant Australian debut in Saturday’s G2 Chairman’s Quality at Randwick.

A multiple G3 winner in New Zealand, the four-year-old was sent across the Tasman by his trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott with next weekend’s G1 Sydney Cup in mind.

The son Myboycharlie from Giant Mystique, who cost $90,000 at the 2015 NZB Karaka Premier Sale, races in NZ as Charles Road.

Raced by Archer Equine Investments Ltd, Sir Charles Road has now had 18 starts for five wins, seven placings and more than $NZ432,000 prizemoney.

With the 2018 NZB Karaka May Sale just around the corner, the $3000 weanling graduate So Far Sokool gave the auction a timely boost with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Listed Bendigo Guineas (1400m).

Trained by Archie Alexander and ridden by Nikita Beriman, the filly powered away from her opposition in the straight for a commanding four lengths win.

So Far Sokool
So Far Sokool Picture: Trish Dunell

So Far Sokool (Showcasing x Sokool by Bin Ajwaad) was bred by Haunui Farm and was offered at the 2015 NZB National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale where she was bought by GJ Healey for $3000.

She began her career in New Zealand, where she had three starts for a win and two placings including a second in the Listed Great Northern Foal Stakes before she was sent to Australia to race in the colours of new part-owners OTI Racing.

So Far Sokool is the 24th stakes winner by Showcasing, who stands in the Northern Hemisphere at Whitsbury Manor Stud.
Racing and Sports

Te Aroha

Saturday, 07th April 2018

8
16:20
(local)

Nz Thoroughbred Breeders Stks (G1)

Sex: FM Type: OPEN
NZD $200,000
1600m TURF DEAD
8
16:20
(local)
NZD $200,000
1600m DEAD

Nz Thoroughbred Breeders Stks (G1)

Sex: FM Type: OPEN

The final G1 of the season in New Zealand is for the strength and rock of the sport namely fillies and mares, which has stood up this century with reliable rather than spasmodic performance. The entire New Zealand season and calendar and higher stake money and weight relief is set up and continues to be to assist female gallopers greatly over the males. It is ironic that the fillies and mares only have one G1 race just for them when the Breeders, Studs and Bloodstock sales have such a massive say into how New Zealand thoroughbred racing is run and headed. The field today was worryingly only a dozen runners when this race is almost always capacity and that alone should set off wagering alarms bells. The track at Te Aroha today was as normal very biased towards on pacers and the inside lanes with eight winners on the nine race card coming from no worse than fourth on settling. The only exception came in a nine-horse field run at a torrid clip that saw the winner come from sixth turning for home, otherwise it was a very biased track raceday. Miss Wilson finished fourth in this last year but the now stronger 5yo Australian bred mare looked the winner a long way out after settling down third on her own as two leaders drag raced each other, which has happened unbelievably in the last two G1 races held in New Zealand. The sight of two runners cutting each other up and eliminating each others chances is a worrying sign at G1 in New Zealand especially when for most of the season prior walking up front has been tolerated and no single rider reacted. Bettors wager on confidence gained from seeing competence at all levels of the sport but the last two G1 races in New Zealand have seen two up front cost each other any possible winning chance and both times the runner sitting third giggling has won. Miss Wilson strode up and led at the 300m and went clear before holding on well to score by half a length in 1:35.06 to record her first G1 success after four attempts prior returned in order a fourth (in this) then a seven, an eighth and a ninth. She has now won seven of twenty-five starts and all of them have come on good or dead footing. Thee Auld Floozie ran on strongly for second after sitting sixth the outer and she is always a threat against her own sex. Nicoletta attacked for the lead the outer after 400m and kept applying the blowtorch before being headed at the 300m. She was third at the 200m and held that well albeit just to the line all things considered to be beaten just under two lengths and who knows what a more patient ride could have achieved. Heni ran on gamely for fourth after settling down seventh and missed third and that valuable G1 placing by a whisker. Coldplay found the line well too after settling one spot further back but was over a length behind Heni and Nicoletta at the line. Cote D'or plugged on but was disappointing overall while Ruud Not Too got attacked from the 1200m to the home turn and weakened. Montoya Star found the further you come up the North Island the harder it gets with a plugging eighth. The rest were beaten over six lengths and of those the big flop was the clear favourite Darscape Princess that settled fourth the outer in a good spot but was battling the run home. Prior she had run second at G1 under WFA versus all comers and sixth in that race and four and a half lengths behind was Nicoletta. Today to show the form cannot be trusted Nicoletta has finished four and a half lengths ahead of Darscape Princess today or a nine length turnaround in two weeks. Miss Wilson has more wins in store if kept racing and no pressure now with a G1 on her dance card. Not very many of these from today will keep racing for too much longer so as a future form source, of which it is usually very reliable, that becomes clouded and diluted in strength terms.



FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 6. MISS WILSON (AUS) 5yo M
STRATUM (AUS) - CIERZO (NZ)
VINNIE COLGAN
JOHN BARY
$11
57kg
R D Wood & Mrs E L Wood

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2nd 1. THEE AULD FLOOZIE (NZ) 6yo M
MASTERCRAFTSMAN (IRE) - THEE AULD HUSSIE (NZ)
TROY HARRIS
STEPHEN MARSH
$9
57kg
P D Craighead, L G Ford, S B Marsh, M C Roughead, Two Fat Cows Syndicate, J G & Mrs S K Young

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3rd 8. NICOLETTA (NZ) 4yo M
SAVABEEL (AUS) - CELTIC CROWN (USA)
SAMANTHA COLLETT
MURRAY BAKER & ANDREW FORSMAN
$26
57kg
L Petagna

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4th 4. HENI (NZ) 7yo M
TOWKAY (AUS) - BAHHZAAR (NZ)
R J MYERS
MIKE BRESLIN
$26
57kg
5th 2. I AM COLDPLAY (NZ) 5yo M
SAVABEEL (AUS) - FORTY TWO BELOW (NZ)
MATTHEW CAMERON
MURRAY BAKER & ANDREW FORSMAN
$6.5
57kg

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6th 5. COTE D'OR (NZ) 5yo M
MAKFI (GB) - OUR ECHEZEAUX (NZ)
DANIELLE JOHNSON
KEN & BEV KELSO
$5.5
57kg

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7th 9. RUUD NOT TOO (NZ) 5yo M
BERNARDINI (USA) - TOO MANY DIAMONDS (NZ)
SAM SPRATT
STEPHEN MARSH
$17
57kg

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8th 7. MONTOYA STAR (AUS) 5yo M
HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) - STARS IN FLIGHT (NZ)
MICHAEL MCNAB
MICHAEL & MATTHEW PITMAN
$12
57kg

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9th 11. SYMPHONIC (NZ) 5yo M
O'REILLY (NZ) - CHORUS (NZ)
MICHAEL COLEMAN
PETER & DAWN WILLIAMS
$31
57kg

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10th 3. DARSCAPE PRINCESS (NZ) 4yo M
DARCI BRAHMA (NZ) - CAPE PRINCESS (NZ)
JOHNATHON PARKES
FRASER AURET
$2.88
57kg
11th 12. CAPRIKOSA (NZ) 5yo M
ALAMOSA (NZ) - CASTELLINA (NZ)
MARK DU PLESSIS
PETER & DAWN WILLIAMS
$31
57kg

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12th 10. ADRIATIC PEARL (NZ) 7yo M
ZED (NZ) - TUDOR MOON (NZ)
TRUDY THORNTON
J C PENDER
$81
57kg

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