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7.
Huge Day For Desert
Prince
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01/02/2003 |
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Woodlands
Stud’s first season sire Desert Prince entered Saturday without siring a
winner from his first 7 two-year olds to reach the racetrack in Australia. At
days end the son of Green Desert exited with a Group 2 winning filly and a colt
that looks certain to take a hand in the rich two-year old races in the autumn.
Ridden by Brendon Fenech, Syrinx (Desert Prince (IRE) - Whistling (NZ) by Ace Of
Aces (USA)) became her sires first stakes winner in Australia with a ½-length
win over Barabba Road (Snaadee (USA)) with the favourite Regrowth (Unbridled’s
Song) weakening back into third place in the $100,000 Group 2 Alcohol Go Easy -
Breeders Stakes at Morphetville.
At her only previous run the John Hawkes-trained Syrinx finished third to Rinky
Dink in the Rancher Plate at Caulfield on January 11.
Syrinx becomes the third stakes winner out of the 1989 VATC Tristarc Stakes (LR)
winner Whistling. Her previous foals include the classy Canny Lad gelding
Whistle Up who won 9 and placed in 15 of his 48 starts for earnings of $366,728
over 6 seasons of racing. His victories included the Group 3 VRC Standish H.
(1200 m.) and the Listed VRC Moet and Chandon S. (1400 m.).
Two years after foaling Whistle Up, Whistling produced the Quest For Fame colt
Noise. Although he failed to win at two Noise indicated his class when runner-up
to champion colt Encounter in the Listed Breeders Plate at Randwick. As a thre-year
old Noise won the AJC Carbine Club S. L (1600 m.) and Hawkesbury Guineas (1400
m.) and finished third to Des’s Dream and Catalan Opening in the Group 1 AJC
All Aged Stakes and third behind Northern Drake and Dodge in the Group 2 STC
Phar Lap Stakes.
Whistling has a filly foal by Grand Lodge and was served by Quest For Fame last
spring.
The day started off well for Desert Prince when the heavily backed favourite
Kusi (Desert Prince (Ire)-Naughty by Canny Lad) scored an impressive win in the
Barry Hall/Jason Saddington H. (1100m) at Rosehill Gardens.
Although he was having his first race start Kusi had flagged his ability with an
impressive barrier trial win at Warwick farm on January 24. Corey Brown always
had the flashy chestnut in a challenging position and he hit the line strongly
to defeat Hipwell (Armidale) and Spur Me On (Flying Spur).
Kusi is the third foal of the city winning Canny Lad mare Naughty, a half sister
to Listed VATC Mercedes-Benz S. (1400 m.) winner Happy (Night Shift). There are
plenty of stamina influences further back in the pedigree of Kusi. His fourth
dam Khoralee (Khorassan) is a half sister to the outstanding racehorses Fox Myth
(Great Northern Derby, Wellington Cup etc) and Sometime (Caulfield Cup,
Caulfield Stakes, Turnbull Stakes, Alister Clark Stakes (twice), Feehan H., St
George Stakes etc) as well as Galston (Balloch) the dam of one of Australia’s
greatest ever stayers, the Bart Cummings trained Galilee (Alcimedes) who
dominated the country’s distance events in the middle 1960’s winning the
Melbourne Cup, Sydney Cup, Caulfield Cup, Toorak H., Fisher Plate, Memsie
Stakes, Queen Elizabeth Stakes etc.
Khoralee was herself a more than useful broodmare. She is the dam of Galilee’s
three-quarter brother in blood Citadel (Alcimedes) who carried the Stan Fox
colours to success in the 1974 AJC Epsom Handicap.
Naughty foaled a filly by Grand Lodge last spring and was once again served by
Desert Prince.
The southern hemisphere success for Desert Prince mirrors his achievements in
the north. Foss Way became his first stakes winner when successful in the Group
3 Solario Stakes cthen days later Mail the Desert became Desert Prince’s first
Group 1 winner when successful in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh.
A son of the Danzig stallion Green Desert, Desert Prince was highest-rated
three-year old on the 1998 International Classifications. His 5 wins from 11
starts included the Prix du Moulin (G1), Irish 1000 Guineas (G1) and Queen
Elizabeth 11 Stakes (G1). Desert Prince retired to the Irish national stud in
1999 and Woodlands Stud later that year.
By: Mark Smith
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