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Encosta De Lago gets exciting winners in South Africa and in Ireland Encosta De Lago’s international reputation received another boost when getting two impressive winners in both hemispheres in March. His exciting South African-based colt
Delago Deluxe made it two wins from two starts when he won the Group 3 Protea Stakes at Turffontein. A member of the all-conquering Charles Laird stable, the colt is owned by Laird’s
Snitzel has a new star among his latest crop of two-year-olds following the outstanding debut by Salade at Rosehill in March. The strapping chestnut colt bounded away with the Group 2 $175,000 Pago Pago Stakes by 2l. Salade is the third individual stakes winner by Arrowfield’s son of Redoute’s Choice joining Group 2 winner Chance Bye and stakes winner Zelsnitz, and is his sixth Australian two-year-old winner this season. Four of those juveniles have earned black type. Salade is out of the Group-placed two-year-old winner Just As Beautiful (Beautiful Crown) and was purchased for A$65,000 by his owner Mathew Sandblom at the 2010 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale. Placed in the Black Opal Stakes, Just As Beautiful is a half sister to the stakes-winning juvenile Tropical Affair, the dam of Group winner Matras and Group race runner-up Ashikaga. With prize-money earnings of A$1,426,708, Snitzel lies in second position on the Australian second-season sires’ list bracketed by another Group 1-winning son of Redoute’s Choice, Stratum, and Flying Spur’s son Jetspur. Snitzel has five yearlings in the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, among them two fillies and a colt in the Arrowfield Stud draft.
major stable clients Ingrid and Markus Jooste. The trainer bought the colt from the draft of Baramul Stud for $550,000 at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. He is the first named foal for the three-time winning and well-related Flying Spur mare Succeeding. Three times a winner in Brisbane, Succeeding is a daughter of the former top racemare and grand producer Staging, a daughter of Success Express. Succeeding is a half-sister to Staging’s Group winners Duporth, Excites and Tickets. The Irish-bred filly Empowering (Encosta De Lago ex Blue Cloud (Nashwan)) became the first European stakes winner for Encosta De Lago when she took the Group 3 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown. Trained by Aidan O’Brien, owned by his wife Anne-Marie and ridden by his son Joseph, Empowering led soon after the start and kept going strongly to win the 7f race by a length and three-quarters. Empowering broke her maiden on her third start at Dundalk last December and is entered for the European fillies’ Classics. She is the 78th stakes winner for the stallion. She is one of five winners and the first stakes winner for her stakes-winning Nashwan dam Blue Cloud, a half-sister to Group 1 winner and sire Bigstone.
New Zealand-bred O’Reilly colt tops Hong Kong’s International Sale A son of O’Reilly out of a Centaine mare made the highest price at the Hong Kong International Sale (HKIS) held at Sha Tin on March 19. The 20 lots sold made a record average of HK$4,705,000 with the O’Reilly colt’s price of HK$7.5 million equalling the sale record. The average was almost exactly HK$1 million up on the average of the last sale., “We are delighted with the results of the sale,” said Hong Kong Jockey Club executive director of racing, William A Nader. “The record average reflects the fact that the lots were beautifully presented and all looked terrific, and in that respect I think the prices paid were a compliment to the Club. “But there is another aspect too, which is that people do recognise that we vet horses very carefully to make sure they are worthy of their place in the sale; and this knowledge gives buyers reassurance.” Other notable sales wasa son of Fastnet
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Rock who made HK$7 million, a son of Hawk Wing who made HK$6 million and a son of Cape Cross, who fetched HK$5.2 million. “With the lowest price of HK$3 million and the highest HK$7.5 million this has been a
strong sale by any criterion,” said Nader. “But it’s not just about profit and loss or about the record average. It’s about how these horses contribute to the world-class standards of Hong Kong racing.”
Leading Australian and New Zealand stallions 2010-2011 Stallion Written Tycoon Nadeem Flying Pegasus All Bar One Red Dazzler Saxon Ad Valorem Churchill Downs Hotel Grand Perfectly Ready
Sire Iglesia Redoute’s Choice Fusaichi Pegasus Hennessy Red Ransom Danehill Danzig Danehill Grand Lodge More Than Ready
2010 Stud Fee 6,600 22,000 8,800 7,700 13,750 4,400 11,000 8,800 13,200 12,000
Wins 7 17 16 23 21 10 7 8 9 19
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368,147 269,989 249,348 197,800 195,750 177,670 153,550 145,343 140,463 116,165