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Classic Day
For Secret Savings |
18/01/2003 |
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Three
metropolitan winners including the winner of the $610,000 Inglis Classic (1200m)
at Randwick this afternoon completed another good day at the office for Emirate
Park Stud’s rising young sire Secret Savings.
The Jack Denham-trained Tutelage was rewarded for her consistent recent form
with a hard fought head win in the Vinery Hcp (1200m) at Randwick then the Start
Gower-trained Swiss Vault ran out an easy 2 ½-length winner of a class 1 at
Victoria Park. Both three-year old filly's were purchased at the 2001 Adelaide
magic Millions Yearling sale with Tutelage bringing $32,000 and Swiss Vault
making $16,000. But it was left to the high-class two-year old filly Secret Land
to put the icing on the cake for Secret Savings.
Fittingly it was Gai Waterhouse that conditioned the impressive Inglis Classic
winner Secret Land. For it was under the guidance of Waterhouse that saw Secret
Savings burst onto the Australian racing scene in 1997 when, in just four
starts, the imported six-year old won the AJC Doncaster Handicap (G1), STC
Frederick Clissold Handicap (G3), breaking the race record previously held by
his now Emirates Park stable-mate Danewin, NJC Newcastle Newmarket (G3), and
finished third in the STC George Ryder Stakes (G1).
Emitates Park Stud consigned Secret Land to the 2002 Classic sale where
Waterhouse purchased her for $50,000. The grey filly is the second foal of her
imported dam Pocaterra. The winner of 3 races in the U.S. Procaterra is by the
vastly underrated stallion Wolf Power who died at the age of 24 at Gainesway
Stud in November last year. Wolf Power (Flirting Around-Pandora, by Casabianca)
was a champion in his native South Africa where he won 18 of 31 races and
earning a South African record $758,071. At stud in America Wolf Power sired 38
stakes winners and the earners of $23 million.
For pedigree buffs it is interesting to note that both Secret Land's sire Secret
Savings and her dam Pocaterra descend from the hugely influential broodmare Grey
Flight.
A winner of 6 Allowance races in 17 starts in the U.S mainly on the highly
competitive New York circuit before his importation to Australia Secret Savings
failed to win a stakes race in the U.S however he was highly enough thought of
to run in the Group 1 Jerome Handicap at Belmont Park where he finished fifth
behind Prenup, Ulises and Arrowfield Stud’s ill-fated stallion End Sweep. He
also finished fourth to You and I in the 1995 Brooklyn Handicap (G2).
A son of the influential Claiborne Stud based Mr. Prospector stallion Seeking
the Gold, Secret Savings was purchased by Emirate Park’s Nassar Lootah from
the Phipps family for a figure believed to be around $350,000. He is out of the
unraced Damascus mare Jurisdictional a sister to the Group one winner and
successful sire Time For A Change. Jurisdictional comes from one of the best
families nurtured over decades by the Phipps family. She has as her fourth dam
the foundation mare Grey Flight who as mentioned earlier is also the sixth dam
of Procaterra. Mrs Henry Carnegie Phipps purchased Grey Flight at the 1946
Saratoga sale for $35,000, the highest price of the sale. She was an outstanding
performer on the racetrack winning 12 of her 35 starts but that paled into
insignificance compared to her influence at stud. Her 15 named foals all reached
the racetrack with 14 winning and 9 becoming stakes winners. Her produce
includes Full Flight (Ambiorix), Misty Morn (Princequillo), Gray Phantom (Ambiorix),
Misty Flight (Princequillo), Misty Day (Nasrullah), Bold Princess (Bold Ruler),
Bowl Queen (Bold Ruler), Signore (Ribot) and What A Pleasure (Bold Ruler).
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