Sunday, June 17, 2018

A Commanding Miss Leonidas


    The highlights of Saturdays racing were the brilliant win by the I Am Invincible filly, Miss Leonidas, at the Valley. The win of Tradesman in the listed Ipswich Cup for Dean Yendall and Darren Weir.The continuing record breaking run of Chris Waller and his Sebring's. While on the breeding side of the coin revealed the continued presence of Redoutes Choice and Command's broodmares in the winners circle, with their progeny.

Miss Leonidas -- The I Am Invincible filly exploded away from her opposition over the Moonee Valley 1000m for the Dwayne Dunn/ Henry Dwyer combination. She is a real flying machine this filly.


 Redoutes Choice and Commands -- The continued success of the broodmares of these two prominent stallions showed up across Australia on the weekend, with wins, at the Valley, Rosehill,Morphetville and Wodonga. In the final event at the Valley, the So You Think colt, Usain Bowler and jockey Mick Dee came with a well timed run, saluting, for the John Saddler stable, in the 1200m 3yo Vobis race. She is out the Redoutes Choice mare, Eileen. While at Rosehill, Flow, a Street Cry gelding for the Cummings stable recorded a well deserved victory in the BM 95 race. He is from the Redoutes mare, Glissade. The opening race in Adelaide was won by Assertive Play in strong fashion. She is a two year old filly from another, Redoutes mare, Aussie Crawl by a stallion standing in South Australia by the name of Akeed Mcfeed. In the country at Wodonga a short price Pierro colt called Jenkins broke his maiden status.
Commands camp had a win in the two year old race at the Ipswich carnival, with a colt from his daughter Jezzamine by Jet Spur, called Unconditional. While at Kembla another two year old colt, Unwise won his maiden, as well. He is by Lonrho from the Commands mare, Indiscretions and is trained by James Cummings. In the 2000m Kensei Hcp at Rosehill another Waller/Sebring success as Black'nGold got home for jockey Brenton Avdulla. The gelding is out of the Commands mare, Fools Gold.
Waller/ Sebring -- This combination is a potent one with the win by Black'n'Gold and at Kembla with Asterius in the 1400m class 1 ridden by Chad Lever.The amount of winners over the past few weeks recorded by these two together is astounding. Chris has the key to the Sebrings.
Tradesman -- In the Ipswich Cup, the strong Darren Weir camp was present with Tradesman and Dean Yendall, in the saddle. After sitting three wide the trip the Victorian got home by a pimple after an almighty tussle with First Crush, up the straight . Darren Weir gave the ride a one out of ten but said the horse was a fighter. This added another $175,000 to the prizemoney of the Trade Fair gelding. The stallion stands in Western Australia.
Dean Yendall  commenting on Darren Weirs rating on his ride. Made me smile !
    Additional winners worth taking note of are the win by the Not A Single Doubt gelding, Single Note, at the Valley. A decisive win and this gelding always takes a few runs to get momentum another win could easily follow. The win of the I Am Invincible mare, Of The Day in the class 6 plate at Ipswich. The progeny of the South American, stallion Host in the country on wet tracks. During the week there were a few and at Wodonga saturday in the heavy saw Georgia's Host successful in the three year old fillies race. While at Rosehill the four year old mare Lachila Bella won the BM 75 over 1500m, ridden by Rachel King.

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