Exciting Towkay galloper Ace Aliado (Towkay-Waikawa) put his unbeaten 7 win career on the line when he resumed from a four month break in Fridays $125,000 Class 1 Stakes at Kranjii in Singapore. With his principal target this campaign the Singapore Derby the unbeaten four-year-old was going to be vulnerable in Fridays 1400m contest and so it proved but only just, finishing a nose second to fellow NZ bred galloper Good Feel with two lengths to the third place getter.
Ace Aliado was sold to Singapore as an unraced three-year-old by his breeder Christopher Grace after winning a trial when trained by Foxton's David Haworth with the sale brokered by Otaki agent Phil Cataldo.
The LA bred Aspinal (Pins-Clermont Rose) beat a promising field of fellow three-year-olds with her success in Saturdays Rimpac Owens Plate over 1300m at Tauranga - a race won over the last three years by Mufhasa, group two winner Needuask and Santangelo.
Aspinal (pictured left) is raced by the stud with Paul Bittar, S Browne, R Campbell, J Fox, R and S Wilson and her trainer Tony Pike. LA has a weanling Darci Brahma half brother to Aspinal who is likely to be sold at the National Yearling Sales at Karaka next year.
LA takes a select draft of three yearlings across the Tasman to the Australian Yearling Sale which starts in Sydney on 6 April. The half brother to Larry's Never Late (LOT 9) is certain to be popular with buyers while completing the LA draft are a Zabeel filly (LOT 346)from the much sought after family of Legs, Guyno and Sixty Seconds and a Darci Brahma colt (LOT 176)from the family of Don Gordon's fine taproot mare Phareno.
