With the enviable lifetime statistics of a 65% plus winners to runners ratio and a mid-5% stakes winners to runners ratio, the Group 1 winning Redoute’s Choice stallion Nadeem (Redoute’s Choice-Candide by Sound Reason) is outstanding value to local breeders this season at $6,500 plus GST.
One of a number of promising types from his oldest NZ crop of 4YO’s is the Baker/Forsman trained 4YO Ambitious Winner (Nadeem-Goldsumware by Refuse To Bend). The Ardsley Stud product registered his fourth victory from his last seven starts when he scored over 1400m at Te Rapa on Saturday.
Similarly, high hopes are held next season for the Janelle Millar trained mare Tinkalicious (Nadeem-Tinkermia by Johar). Runner-up to Eagle Bay at her last start in a competitive Douro Cup at Trentham, the Nadeem mares defeat in that race of subsequent stakes winners Montoya Star and Tomelilla point to her being in for a very productive season.
And while he just failed to gain black-type, there was a lot to admire about the debut stakes performance of the LA bred Nadeem 4YO Princeton Spirit (Nadeem-Ivy Hall by Towkay) over 1200m at Flemington on Saturday. Leading the field –up into a strong head wind, the gelding, who had won five of his seven starts before Saturday, would have lost few admirers with his close fourth placing.
