By Golly Molly winning her maiden- More wins in store for this lass!!!

I am writing this dispatch on a flight back to Melbourne from Launceston.  The past three weeks appear to be a blur with the Sydney Classic running in to Perth Magic Millions and then Tasmanian Magic Millions Sales.  Add to this the Tasmanian Summer Carnival and preparations for the Inglis Premier and Adelaide Magic Millions Sales and you have a incredibly chaotic period.

I will be attending the Premier Sale as well as Adelaide Magic Millions.

I plan to do an update on all our horses by the end of the week and we will be having a stand at the Inglis Premier Sale.  This is a good opportunity to catch up with many of our friends who attend the sale.

I will also be contacting clients who have requested information on our yearlings and haven’t returned their paperwork.  I’m thrilled with our yearling purchases.  They are a very good bunch indeed.

MAGIC MILLIONS PERTH AND TASMANIA

I really enjoyed attending the Perth Magic Millions Sale.  I had a good feeling about the sale before I arrived in Perth and while I was disappointed not to pick up a yearling I was certain I was on the right ones.  It isn’t easy going to a sale and sorting out the yearlings.  There were 349 lots catalogued.  I was looking to purchase one perhaps two yearlings.  After I composed my ‘short list’ and left the vet to do his job I had four yearlings on my list.  These four yearlings were very well received and were amongst the best ten in the sale.  Unfortunately, none fell through the cracks and I am quite strict adhering to the values I put on the yearlings.

On Tuesday night I headed to the Tasmanian Sale knowing the yearlings on offer were of better quality than we had seen in Launceston in recent years.  The results for the sale were extraordinary and a big boost for the breeding industry in Tasmania.  A lot of work has been done in recent years by Tas Racing, Magic Millions and the breeders to improve their product.  These efforts were rewarded with the breeding industry at long last appearing to be moving forward.

To help take the sale to the next level it is imperative that x-rays are available on at the least the top 50% of the yearlings on offer.  I’d also like to see the sale moved to Hobart.  The facilities on offer in the Capital City are much better than in Launceston and with Hobart having a greater population it makes sense to make the move.  The sales complex in Launceston has seen better days.

ON THE TRACK

It certainly has been an interesting couple of weeks for us.  By Golly Molly scored a strong win at Hawkesbury and looks to have a nice future.  Congratulations to her owners.  

Probably one of the best performances ever by a Prime Thoroughbreds horse that didn’t win was put in by Savoureux in the Group 3 Triscay Stakes where she stormed home for a very good 3rd placing.  This important black type performance adds to her value and along with her win in the Listed Mode Stakes makes her a valuable mare.  Her final sectionals were terrific with her running .8 of a second quicker for her final 600m than Winks did winning the Apollo Stakes.

Other good efforts were put in by Makeadane 2nd at Canterbury, Awasita 2nd and 4th at Doomben, Bella Venus 2nd at Launceston, Lomazzo 3rd at Newcastle and Invincible Me 3rd at Echuca.

I was pleased with Maldicion’s run in the Tasmanian Oaks. She still has a bit to learn but looks like a nice staying filly in the making.  Tough Vic ran home nicely for 5th in the Tasmanian Magic Millions Two Year Old Classic.  He is my Derby horse for next year.

This week we have Invincible Al debuting at Bendigo on Tuesday and Hussy’s Glow is set to run in the Listed Gold Sovereign Stakes on Wednesday.  Invincible Me heads to Warrnambool on Thursdayand More Than a Rose on Sunday at the Sunshine Coast. Hijack Hussy is set to resume at Flemington on 5 March.  Flying Jess put in a good trial at Cranbourne earlier today but is likely to trial again before heading to the races.

LIKE TO RACE A FILLY CLOSELY RELATED TO FIRST SEAL?

I was thrilled for John Thompson when First Seal ran a race record to win at Rosehill on Saturday.  She is a super mare and had almost 12 months off after a bad hoof injury looked like finishing her career.  On Saturday she was brilliant.  

First Seal has met Winx on seven occasions, three times in trials and four times in races and Winx has never beaten her.  Draw your own conclusions but if she gets back to her best First Seal may well be the best mare in Australia.

Sebring – A Quiet Shandy John Moloney to train, Close relation to FIRST SEAL

The filly

The moment I saw this filly I thought I was looking at Unchain My Heart at a similar age.  They are very similar with this filly having a touch more scope.  She was reared at Edinburgh Park by Ian Smith who bred Silent Witness.  She has a strong hindquarter, attractive head and gets around nicely.  Her temperament is good and she had no issues when vetted.

It is hard to predict when she will get to the races but she is forward enough to suggest she may get up and going as a two year old and she is by Sebring who gets runners at all ages and distances from precocious two year olds through to Melbourne Cup horses.

I am expecting that she will get better with age which her pedigree suggests will be the case.

Sebring

Sebring is one of our very best sires and currently 5th on the National Sires List.  He is the sire of Criterion, one of the best horses in Australia.  Sebring won a Golden Slipper and sired Australian Horse Of The Year in Dissident. It is impossible to fault him as a sire.

He possesses a very strong female line which in my opinion is a characteristic most of the best stallions have.  Sebring’s sire More Than Ready has done a remarkable job in Australia and is still in great demand.

A Quiet Shandy

A Quiet Shandy is a metropolitan winner and full sister to the Listed and Group 1 winner Becerra. Becerra was placed in the Queensland Oaks and is out of a Scenic mare.  If you look down the page we see A Quiet Shout out of a well related Al Maher mare out of a Scenic Mare out of a Best Western mare out of a Tattenham mare.  

This pedigree page which sees First Seal, Episode, Macquarie Prince, Book Of Keels and of course Becerra listed suggests to me we may have a classic filly at three.

Our filly was in the wrong sale and would have been better placed in the Inglis Easter Sale where the buyers are looking for classic three year old fillies.

I couldn’t recommend a filly more highly and look forward to her getting to the track.  She is ideally suited to racing in Victoria where there are far more races on offer for horses that get over ground than in the other states.