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Inglis Updates
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23/07/2002 |
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Rubiton; Ton Of Hope; Thorn Park/Spinning World; Don Baertschiger; Pat Farrell.
* QUALITY sire Rubiton achieved a career milestone on July 20 when he produced a rare stakes trifecta in the Sir John Monash Stakes (Listed) at Caulfield.
Brian Mayfield-Smith's Group One Salinger Stakes winner
Rubitano, a $95,000 product of the 1999 Inglis Premier Sale, resumed with a first class performance to down talented filly Ruby Slipper ($25,000; Inglis Autumn Sale) and stablemate Prince Rubiton, who was passed in at thye 1998 Inglis Premier Sale for$35,000.
Rubiton is one of Victoria's best value sires, standing for just $8800 at Blue Gum Farm near Euroa.
Earlier this year at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, his 10 yearlings sold averaged $42,650, with Brian Mayfield-Smith going to $130,000 to secure a colt from Mill Rani.
Rubitano looks set to play a big hand in the upcoming spring carnival with both jockey and trainer expressing the utmost confidence in his abilities.
"For a horse to go from a maiden to a Group One win in one preparation is amazing. They have to have a lot of depth to do that," said Mayfield-Smith of the horse who has now won eight races from 11 starts and prizemoney in excess of $670,000.
Rubitano is yet to race beyond 1200 metres, but if things go according to plan over the coming months he may find himself contesting the 2040 metres of the W.S. Cox Plate.
Rubiton captured the Moonee Valley showpiece in 1987, after making a quantum leap from explosive sprinter to middle distance weight-for-age star.
* ANOTHER improving Rubiton gelding is Ton Of Hope, who cost $25,000 at the $2000 Inglis Premier Sale and is a Shelly Hancox syndicated three year old prepared by Russell Cameron.
He took out the Silver Bowl Series Final at Flemington on July 17 taking his prizemoney to $67,400 with nearly $15,000 coming from Super VOBIS bonuses.
* EXCITING prospect Thorn Park showed the acceleration of a future Group One winner, unleashing another dazzling finish to win at Rosehill on July 20.
The son of Spinning World, purchased for $200,000 at the 2001 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, has the looks, the pedigree and the ability to go all the way this spring, and assuming he measures up to the challenge, will have plenty of stallion appeal at the end of his racing days.
His fourth dam Denise's Joy, a champion racehorse in her own right, has spawned a highly commercial dynasty of superior runners.
To date, the best of the clan have been of the fairer sex including
Queensland Oaks winners Joie Denise and Miss Danehill; champion South African filly Joie de Grise; Champagne Stakes winner Euphoria; and brilliant speedsters So Gorgeous and Light up the World, a half-sister to the dam of Thorn Park.
The male descendants of Denise's Joy include several current stakes performers including; tough Queenslander Kenconcarne, classy young stayer Pentastic and the talented Arlington Road.
They are all geldings and it was just a matter of time before a truly special colt like Thorn Park dropped into this great family.
Another promising Spinning World product, the Gai Waterhouse trained Al Megdam, a $160,000 product of the 2001 Inglis Australian Breeze Up Sale, made it back-to-back wins on July 17, adding victory at Randwick to an impressive maiden win at Kembla.
* SINGAPORE-based former Melbourne trainer Don Baertschiger has a promising young horse on his hands in the shape of Tres Sheik.
The three year old gelding by Desert Style has won his last four starts at Kranji, taking out the feature event on on July 19 when ridden by former Sydneysider Craig Carmody.
The win followed an outstanding effort at his previous start, when he defeated globetrotting star Palace Line in a keenly contested Tiger Beer Triple Challenge Stakes.
Tres Sheik was bred and offered for sale by Rosemount Estates (now trading as Edinglassie Stud) at Muswellbrook and is the second foal of the unraced Marscay mare La Marmalade, a daughter of American bred Italian stakes-winner Liffey Lace.
He fetched $19,000 at the 2000 Inglis Scone Yearling Sale, before being re-offered for sale in New Zealand where he was knocked down for $90,000.
La Marmalade has also found her way to New Zealand, after being sold at the 2000 Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale for $22,000 to NZ studmaster Jim Campin of Chequers Stud.
* MUSWELLBROOK trainer Pat Farrell is a man with an eye for a bargain and a good horse.
He plucked stakeswinning three year old Bulletproof Billy from the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale for just $8000 and classy stablemate Stormcat Academy was an $11,000 steal from the yearling section at the 2000 Inglis Winter Thoroughbred Sale.
At the 2002 Inglis Winter Thoroughbred Sale on July 19, Farrell had no hesitation going to $13,000 to secure a son of champion racehorse Peintre Celebre from proven producer Bay Boulevard, the dam of stakeswinner Fabulous Friscoe and a colt by Timber Country from the Danehill mare Our Samosa for $9000.
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