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More Than Ready; Blackfriars; Encosta De Lago; Al Maher; Tale Of The Cat; Exceed And Excel; Tycoon Ruler
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MAHISARA, impressive winner of Saturday's G3 Sandown Stakes, is another example of the highly successful More Than Ready-Danehill cross that’s produced G1 winners Sebring, More Joyous, Perfectly Ready, Benicio and Elite Falls.
Mahisara (More Than Ready x Darsini by Danehill) recorded his first black-type win in the Listed Centenary Classic at Eagle Farm in 2011 and since resuming has reeled off wins at Rosehill and Flemington prior to his Sandown success.
His dam Darsini is a three-quarter sister to G2 Stocks Stakes winner Astrodame (Flying Spur) and his third dam is the former champion two-year-old filly of 1986-87 Midnight Fever (Luskin Star), winner of eight of her 12 starts including the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes.
A Bernardini half sister to Mahisara sold for $41,000 to Trevor Bailey at this year’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale from Vinery Stud while Darsini foaled another More Than Ready colt in September.
Mahisara has now raced 15 times for six wins and four placings with prize money of $403,640.
* REIGNING champion Blackfriars is again on top of the WA sires premiership after Eclair Surprise won the G3 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday.
Eclair Surprise (Blackfriars x French Scene by Scenic) completed a black type treble after previous wins in the Listed Murray Bridge Cup and Listed Diamond Jubilee Plate at Flemington.
Raced by Thomas Li, chief executive of the Macau Jockey Club, Éclair Surprise cost $65,000 at the 2009 Perth Magic Millions Sale.
The only foal to date from a Perth winning daughter of G2 Winterbottom Stakes winner French Sound (Ksar), he has won $365,367 from five wins and two placings from only 12 starts.
Blackfriars, a Victorian Derby winning son of Danehill, has sired 21 individual stakes winners. This season his progeny have won $820,040 to lead Bletchley Park ($731,441) and Oratorio ($562,240) on the WA ladder.
* ENCOSTA de Lago produced a new stakeswinner in Perth on Saturday when five year-old entire Maschino won the G3 RJ Peters Stakes at Ascot.
Prepared at Bunbury by Graham Yuill, Maschino (Encosta de Lago x Tahni Girl, by Redoute's Choice) needed to win to assure a start in next Saturday’s GI Railway Stakes.
He produced a strong finishing burst to beat another Encosta de Lago product in Niblick, taking his record to seven wins from 19 starts with prizemoney in excess of $270,000.
Bred by Dean Fleming, Maschino was a $240,000 Easter yearling purchase from the draft of Tyreel Stud.
He is the second foal of G3 winning Redoute’s Choice mare Tahni Girl, a half-sister to stakes-winners Just
Dancing and Hidden Dragon from former champion NZ two year-old and triple G1 winner Ballroom Babe.Tahni Girl has produced a colt by High Chaparral this spring.
Maschino is the 93rd stakeswinner for Encosta de Lago.
* CLASSY Sydney mare Cabernet became the 17th stakes winner for her Danehill sire Al Maher with her deserved win in the Listed Summoned Stakes at Sandown on Saturday.
Cabernet (Al Maher ex Golden Weekend by Nine Carat) was a $75,000 purchase from the 2008 Sydney Classic Sale and may now return home to target next month's G2 Villiers Stakes.
The six-year-old was a stakes placed winner of five races in Sydney before her Sandown win and now boasts earnings of more than $350,000.
Cabernet is 11th stakes winner to come from Al Maher's first foal crop and is the first stakes winner produced by Golden Weekend, herself a black-type winner of the Listed Triscay Stakes.
Golden Weekend is back in foal to Al Maher.
Cabernet is the fourth individual stakes winner for Al Maher this season, joining G1 winner Fat Al, Oasis Bloom and All Legal.
*BRILLIANT filly Dancer’s Tale took out the Listed Welcome stakes at Riccarton in New Zealand on Saturday to become the 80th stakes winner for her international sire Tale Of The Cat.
The Murray Baker trained filly scored by a long neck in the 1000 metre dash and has now won two of three starts.
Dancer’s Tale (Tale of the Cat x Our Pineau, by Carnegie) was a $65,000 purchase from the Blandford Lodge draft at the 2012 NZB Select Yearling Sale and is the first stakes-winner for Our Pineau, a half-sister by Carnegie to the dams of stakes-winners Pussy Willow and Valpolicella.
She now leads the qualifying order for the Karaka Million, New Zealand’s richest race, to be run at Ellerslie on January 27.
Dancer’s Tale was bought by Cambridge bloodstock agent Adrian Clark as part of his new Challenge Racehorse Syndications venture.
* EXCEED And Excel mare Anevay resumed after 90 weeks away from racing to score by five lengths over 1100m at Canterbury last Friday night.
Anevay won the Listed Talindert Stakes at her third start as a two-year-old. The now four-year-old has been out of the place just once from her five career starts,
Anevay is the second stakes winner for the Hennessy mare Categorical.
She is a half to the G2 Todman Stakes winner Krupt and comes from the family of champion sires Flying Spur and Encosta de Lago.
*LAST Tycoon stallion Tycoon Ruler was represented by his first stakes winner when Jet Style won the Listed Beach House Bar & Grill Handicap at Eagle farm on Saturday.
Jet Style is a six-year-old from the Baryshnikov mare Over And Over.
