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Flying Spur Answers His Critics
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14/06/2002 |
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Classy sire Flying Spur has answered his critics with a surge of winning colts in Australia and Hong Kong.
It had been suggested that Flying Spur couldn’t get a colt, but in the last 12 weeks he has sired five individual stakes winners with four being his male progeny.
In Hong Kong, the Ivan Allan-trained Firebolt has stamped himself as Hong Kong’s outstanding sprinter by winning both the G1 Centenary Sprint Cup and G2 Sha Tin Vase over 1000m.
At home the Colin Little trained two year old Blur, the John Hawkes-trained Make Me A Miracle and the Alan Bailey trained Flying Sparks have all graduated to stakes class.
The total number of stakes winners by Flying Spur has now risen to 16.
Meanwhile there’s been plenty of action over the last week from Flying Spur’s fellow Arrowfield Stud sires Danzero, Dehere and End Sweep.
Only a length and a half separated Danzero from two G1 winners at Eagle Farm on June 8 with the efforts of Miss Bussell against the colts in the Queensland Derby and Kingsgate running third in the Stradbroke Handicap.
There doesn’t seem to be any stopping Dehere as he sired winners in Australia, the US and South Africa.
His Australian winners included a metropolitan double and the emergence of a talented 2YO colt in Ain’t Here. Trained by Peter Moody, Ain’t Here has now won 3 of his 4 races and his easy Flemington 1400m win saw him beat another Dehere youngster in Glefti.
The Gai Waterhouse trained 3YO Telescopic made it a city double for Dehere by winning at Randwick.
In the US, the End Sweep three-year-old Draw Play took on some of the best three-year-old sprinters in the G2 Riva Ridge Stakes at Belmont Park and finished a gallant second.
As of June 9, End Sweep is the 6th Leading General Sire and 2nd Leading Juvenile Sire in America.
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