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Record Filly Goes To McEvoy
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01/05/2002 |
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Lindsay Park trainer Tony McEvoy has been selected to prepare the record-priced Danehill filly from the 2002 Australian Easter Yearling sale.
The Danehill-Sommes Sound filly was purchased by Irish agent Demi O’Byrne for $1.5 million with the filly to race under the Coolmore ownership of Sue magnier and Michael Tabor.
The youngster, a half-sister to G1 winners Assertive Lad and Assertive Lass, is the highest priced yearling filly ever sold in Australia and equalled the previous record for the colts who raced as Ken's Regards and Viking Ruler.
McEvoy has been the big winner out of the post-sale sorting of trainers for the top-priced lots as it was announced earliuer that he will also prepare the $1.2 million Sunday Silence-Duelling Girl colt for Darley Australia.
* Meanwhile Danehill’s French Oaks winner Aquarelliste began her four-year-old season in style by taking the G1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp on April 28.
Aquarelliste, racing for the first time since finishing second to Sakhee in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October - her only loss in six starts – has now won three G1 events.
Owner Alex Wildenstein said Aquarelliste is now likely to go to the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on June 30.
Bred in France, Aquarelliste is out of the G3 winner and classic-placed Manila mare Agathe, a half sister to European highweight and 1993 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Arcangues.
And in Australia there have been few better bred winners by Danehill than Cassis, the Mike Moroney filly who kept her unbeaten record intact in the Cinderella Stakes 9LR) at Victoria Park on April 27.
The filly, winner of her only previous start at Ballarat, is out of the Kris mare Porte des Iles and is a grand-daughter of Durtal, the top filly on the 1976 English 2YO Free Handicap and winner that season of the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket.
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