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Inglis Online graduate adds first stakes race to CV.
Sky Punch (6 g ex Grey Swan by Daylami) - who was purchased by Andrew Maloney for $30,000 on the 2019 Inglis Digital August Sale, landed his first stakes race on Saturday when he took out the Leon Macdonald Stakes (Listed, 1400m) at Morphettville and in so doing handed Wellfield Lodge-based sire Alamosa (O'Reilly) with his 18th stakes winner.
Trained by Micheal Hickmott, the six-year-old gelding was having his first start of the campaign and he got it off to a brilliant start, when beating Morvada (Mossman) by three-quarters of a length, while Dalasan (Dalakhani) was another half a length back in third.
Before being offered online, the gelding was purchased by Exempt Bloodstock for NZ$30,000 at the 2016 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka National Yearling Sale and was then purchased by Michael Freedman Racing for NZ$170,000 at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run later that year.
The gelding is out of the unplaced Daylami (Doyoun) mare Grey Swan, making him a brother to four time winner Play Wise.
Grey Swan herself is a three-quarter sister to dual Group 1 winner Grey Swallow, who is out of Moonlight Dance (Sinndar), who also produced Group 3 winner Moonlight Dance (Sindaar) - the dam of Moonlit Lake (Deep Impact) and Listed winner Hygge (Heart's Cry).