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9.
Another
Impressive Stakes Winner for Flying Spur
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01/10/2002 |
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Arrowfield stallion Flying Spur sired his 19th stakeswinner when his
two-year-old daughter Spurcent easily won the Listed Gimcrack Stakes by 2½
lengths at Randwick on Saturday.
Spurcent covered the Randwick 1000m in a slick 58.54 seconds, a time that was
considerably faster than the 2yo colts in the Breeders Plate two races later.
What made Spurcent’s win even more impressive, explained her rider Brent
Stanley, was that her saddle shifted back soon after the start. However, she
didn’t let it bother her and she raced like a true professional settling in
behind the leading division before taking an inside run to sprint clear in the
straight.
Spurcent’s trainer Tony Karakatsanis said that, "win lose or draw she [Spurcent]
was going straight to the spelling paddock for three months as she still has a
lot of improvement in her and we believe she will be an even better filly in the
autumn."
Bred and raced by Ken Rose, Spurcent is the first foal of the Centaine mare San
Century, an unraced 3/4 sister to Fleur de Chine, Third Top filly on the 1995-96
NZ 2YO Free Hcp, and dam of Gr.1 Australasian Oaks winner Tully Thunder.
Spurcent is a further example of Flying Spur’s excellent success with mares by
Djebel line stallions becoming his 6th stakeswinner bred on the cross which
includes 1000 Guineas winner All Time High, Ponton Flyer, Blab, Grand Cavalier
and his star European 2yo colt Mister Links.
The Richard Hannon trained Mister Links is among the leading fancies for the
Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes which will be run this coming Thursday at Newmarket in
England.
A winner of his first three starts including the Gr.3 July Stakes at Newmarket,
Mister Links go into the Middle Park off two close seconds in the Gr.2 Gimcrack
Stakes and the valuable Doncaster St. Leger Yearling Sales Stakes (worth 200,000
pounds) and on both occasions was giving substantial weight to the winners.
"Flying Spur has firmly established himself as one of Australia’s leading
stallions," said Arrowfield Stud’s Managing Director John Messara.
"In addition to his stakeswinners here in Australia, Flying Spur has had
important stakeswinners in Europe, and Hong Kong, and most recently in Japan
where his son Field Spurt won the Hanshin Chushu, a Tokubetsu over 1200m in the
smart time of 1.08.3."
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