LA Invitation
Sam and Catriona are looking forward to seeing you at the stallion parade and farm tour next Sunday the 17th, commencing at 10am. If you are unsure of directions, CLICK HERE for the map. The mild autumn has meant the farm is in excellent condition for this time of year and of course their hot new Street Cry Sire Per Incanto is looking forward to meeting you.
LA's wonderful run has continued in Hong Kong with the highlight been Just Fantastic's winning effort at his first run in the top grade and Towkay cementing his spot as the fourth equal sire of winners behind only Encosta De Lago, O'Reilly and Danehill Dancer.
Per Incanto, Towkay and Zed
The two-year-old colt Street Hunter became Street Cry stallion Street Sense's first winner, scoring an emphatic eight length victory over 1200m at leading Japanese racetrack Kyoto over on 8 July. Street Hunter's dam is by the Storm Cat stallion Freud.
Last month we related how mares by O'Reilly and Towkay should suit Per Incanto on pedigree. As an outcross sire, largely free of Northern Dancer blood apart from in his female family's fourth remove, Per Incanto is very compatible with Northern Dancer line mares. And Street Cry has crossed well with Northern Dancer line mares leaving the likes of Whobegotyou (Carnegie), Shocking (Danehill), Street Sense (Dixieland Band) and four other group one winners.
Street Cry has also worked well with Ribot line mares €“ the incomparable Zenyatta is inbred to Ribot's grandson Hoist The Flag. Mares by Stark South (Dixieland Band from a daughter of Ribot's son His Majesty), Keeper (Danehill from a His Majesty mare) and Shinko King (Fairy King from a great granddaughter of Ribot) should make excellent pedigree matches for Per Incanto.
The LA bred Eternal Beauty (Towkay-Follow the Sun) showed his liking for the 1000m with another Hong Kong win over the trip, this time at Happy Valley on 22 June. The now five-year-old raced briefly in New Zealand as Beauty Again from Lance Noble's stable.
There may not be much to Surf Patrol (Towkay-Out on Bail) but she sure has a big heart as she showed once again with a win over 1400m at the Premier meeting at Tauranga on 25 June. She was 100-1 and drifting at the 150m but powered home to register her fifth career win for trainer Mike Breslin and her owner and breeder Sue Harty.
Weanlings
Those of you who make out this Sunday will get a chance to see some quality weanlings.
A lot can happen between now and Karaka but those currently looking the part include a very forward Thorn Park colt from dual group one winner Sharvasti, a very strong Pins half sister to Can't Keeper Down, an athletic Darci Brahma half brother to Hong Kong's rising star National Treasure and a quality Darci Brahma filly from group three winner Eloa.
Although she will not arrive at LA until September the farm are excited by the recent news that we will be preparing group one winner Ekstreme's Pentire half sister for Karaka on behalf of her owner Alan Jackson. The filly is in Victoria with her mother Cashcade, who is currently in foal to Domesday and due to go back to the Darley stallion this spring.
Other News
Ramiel (Fastnet Rock-Oh Blue Angel) who won her second race at just her fifth start when successful in Victoria last Friday was bred by client Alan Jackson and purchased by Blue Sky Thoroughbreds for $85,000 from our 2009 Karaka Premier draft.
Sam's cousin Angela Williams got a bargain when she purchased the O'Reilly mare Maggie O'Reilly from the 2009 Karaka Broodmare Sale for just $6,000. Without a runner at the time the mare's first live foal No Excuse Maggie has since shown very good form for the John Bary stable and last month her second foal the two-year-old Showing Off (Savabeel) won on debut at Te Teko. Showing Off was purchased for $3,500 at the 2009 National Weanling Sale by Danica Guy.
The Elusive City-Shahiid colt that we sold to Bart Cummings at Karaka last year for $250,000 stepped out at the Rosehill trials last week and won nicely over 900m. A winner of his first trial, at Randwick back in February, the master trainer looks to be applying his typically patient polish to the LA bred two-year “old who goes by the name of Cosmo King.
Another LA product that we are eagerly waiting to step out on the race course is Eagle Pass (Catbird-Monashees), who we sold to Singaporean interests after winning on debut at Woodville back in March. His year older full brother the four-year-old Eagle Peak won an $18,000 race in Western Australia last week and mum has her fourth foal, a Darci Brahma colt, on target for the Karaka Yearling Sales in February.
It is a big achievement to go from Class 5 to Class 1 or Open Class in Hong Kong but two of only a handful of horses who have managed it this season happen to be LA products. To cap it off the LA and Don Gordon bred Just Fantastic (No Excuse Needed-Soneri) was victorious at his Class 1 debut at Sha Tin last week taking the 1650m feature and registering his fifth win for the season. Unfortunately National Treasure (Pins-Trigon Lass) despite starting a very hot favourite couldn't quite repeat in the dose when he lined up in the feature at the same venue on Sunday, pulling a little too hard for leading rider Douglas Whyte.
We look forward to catching up with you this Sunday. The mulled wine is brewing and the date scones will be piping hot!
Happy racing from Team LA
