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China Horse Club’s Savabeel filly Queen Of Diamonds lived up to her high class pedigree at her first start in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series with a dominant performance in Saturday’s G3 Eulogy Stakes at Awapuni.
The filly was bred by former Cambridge Stud owners Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan and descends from their acclaimed Eight Carat-Diamond Lover-Tristalove family.
China Horse Club secured her for $NZ640,000 from the Cambridge Stud draft at the 2017 National Yearling Sale at Karaka.She is a daughter of the Danehill mare Love Diamonds and a younger half-sister to Lovetessa, an O’Reilly mare who was placed in the 2015 running of the Eulogy Stakes during a brief racing career.
Queen Of Diamonds won a Te Rapa maiden last month and handled Saturday’s step up to stakes class with ease.After settling in third place Queen Of Diamonds quickened brilliantly in the straight to win by two and three-quarter lengths from Elate, another Savabeel filly.
Queen Of Diamonds is the 83rd stakes winner by Savabeel, New Zealand’s reigning champion sire.Trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, Queen of Diamonds has had four starts for two wins and one placing and $49,175 in stakes.
Cambridge Stud will offer a Tavistock yearling half-brother to Queen of Diamonds at Karaka 2019 in January.Queen of Diamonds picked up six Filly of the Year Series points for Saturday’s victory, moving her into equal fourth position.
Queen Of Diamonds is the second major Group success this season for Baker-Forsman and China Horse Club after their bargain $36,000 Karaka Select Sale purchase Madison County (Pins) won last month’s G1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.China Horse Club also shares in the ownership of Strasbourg, runner-up in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick, and celebrated another winner at Kembla Grange as part-owners of the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained debut winner Hightail (Written Tycoon).
A $520,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase, Hightail is out of a half-sister to the Listed winner and G1 placed Ringa Ringa Rosie (Bradbury’s Luck) from the family of dual G1 winner Dashing Eagle (Danehill).China Horse Club established six years ago to be Asia’s premier lifestyle, business and thoroughbred racing club has won more than 440 races across 13 different countries including almost 30 G1 events.
It was a big day for Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan’s former Cambridge Stud's broodmare band with a treble of black type winners produced from their mares Love Diamonds, Capital Diamond and Ardeche.CAPITAL DIAMOND is the dam of Gift Of Power, who smashed the track record for 1200m at Awapuni.
By the imported sire Power, the speed merchant set a cracking pace and bolted up by 10 and a half lengths, covering the 1200m in a sizzling 1.07.46.Trained by Team Rogerson, Gift Of Power has now won 10 races from her 19 starts for a syndicate that includes Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan.
Gift Of Power has the tidy career record of 10 wins from her 19 starts for a syndicate that includes the HogansCapital Diamond (Lucky Unicorn) is from the famed Eight Carat family.
A half-brother to Gift Of Power by Tavistock will be sold by Cambridge Stud at the Karaka sale next month.ARDECHE, by Dehere, is the dam of G3 Waikato Gold Cup winner Mongolian Marshal, trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman for Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry.
Mongolian Rider Horse’s red and white colours became famous on both sides of the Tasman through the deeds of the $220,000 NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor), who won the G1 New Zealand Derby, G1 Australian Derby and G1 Caulfield Cup and was a two-time New Zealand Horse of the Year.Mongolian Marshal, a son of the late High Chaparral, was a $220,000 Karaka Premier Sale purchase and has now had 13 starts for five wins and four placings for $204,625 prizemoney for Rider Horse and co-owners Hope Bloodstock Ltd.
The 4YO Mongolian Marshal is the 126th stakes winner by the late High Chaparral, the son of Sadler’s Wells who died in 2014 while undergoing colic surgery.
