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Anabaa youngster something to yell about
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22/04/2002 |
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Two great Hunter Valley studs,Woodlands and Widden,had something to yell about mid afternoon last Saturday.Their collective joy flowed from the dominating 5 1/2 lengths win in class record time of the aptly named Yell in the Listed Golden Stakes at Doomben.Bred and raced by the Inghams under their Woodlands banner, he was got by the Widden Stud Danzig shuttle sire Anabaa from the Bluebird Black Opal Preview winner and Black Opal Stakes placed Vocalist.
The Inghams also bred and raced Vocalist's dual Group One winning two-year-old half-brother Anthems and had successes in Sydney with their dam Loyal Lyric, a Sovereign Red mare they acquired as a yearling. She was from Miss Entertainer, a handy Sydney sprinter by one of Widden's former champion Australian sires,Vain.
Earlier winner of the Listed Veuve Clicquot at Caulfield and a close second in the Group Two Todman Slipper Trial at Rosehill Gardens,Yell looms as one of the most fancied candidates for the Group One events for juvenlles to come in Brisbane in the winter.
He is from the second Australian crop of Anabaa, a sire who got off to a sensational start here with one of his first runners being Donna Natalia, an awesome 5 3/4 lengths winner in the Gimcrack Stakes. On top of his Australian performers, Anabaa has made a big impact in Europe, a region in which his two crops of racing age last year included eleven stakes money earners. One of them, Anabaa Blue, took out the French Derby.
Yell's victory in Brisbane was the second time in a fortnight that a son of Danzig located at the Widden Stud had been the successful sire of a stakes winning two-year-old.The other sire is the former dashing American sprinter Belong To Me and he continued his emergence as a very promising sire when one of his first Australian two-year-olds Before Too Long recorded an effortless win in the Keith Mackay at Randwick.
Like Anabaa,Belong To Me has also had winners up to Group One level in the northern hemisphere. He is one of four high grade racing sons of Danzig on the Widden Stud visiting roster, sharing this distinction with Anabaa and yet to be tested Agnes World and Mujahid.The latter two were both top grade performers in Europe and are confidently expected to provide the Danzig dynasty with two more successful sires in both
hemispheres.
Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service Phone (02) 6543 3051
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