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Fillies by first-season sires shine at Rosehill trials on Monday
Fillies by first-season sires Maurice (Screen Hero) and Sooboog (Snitzel) scored their first trial victories at Rosehill on Monday, with the Annabel Neasham-trained Jessica Rabbit (2 f Sooboog - Bella Sunday by Sunday Silence) landing heat 6, while the John Sargent-trained Healthy Beauty (2 f Maurice - Sunday Lady by Zabeel) took out heat 8.
The daughter of Kitchwin Hills-based sire Sooboog - who finished third in her first trial, before finishing tenth on debut at Randwick on October 24, raced in second for much of the 900 metre heat, finishing off well to beat Batemans Bay (Exceed And Excel) by a neck in a time of 54.60 seconds.
Purchased by her owners Aquis Farm for $250,000 at the 2020 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale from the Segenhoe Stud draft, the filly is out dual winner of Bella Sunday (Sunday Silence), making her a half-sister to 2018 Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Ooohood (I Am Invincible).
Bella Sunday also produced stakes-placed Breakfast In Bed (Hussonet), who in turn produced dual Group 1 winner King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice).
Bella Sunday herself is also a half-sister to top-class sire Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice).
Sooboog stands at Kitchwin Hills for a fee of $13,200 (inc GST).
Meanwhile later on in the morning, Healthy Beauty posted a very easy victory in her 900 metre heat.
The filly was cleanly away and raced three wide for the early part of the trial, before hitting the front after 150 metres and did not see another rival, galloping home smoothly to beat Field Wiri (Deep Field) by an easy length and three-quarters in a time of 54.46 seconds.
The filly is out of three time-winning Zabeel (Sir Tristram) mare Sunday Lady, who has produced three winners from four foals to race.
Further back this is the same family as Group 3 winner Punch On (Tiger Hill).
Maurice has sired 28 first-crop winners in his native Japan and he stood at Arrowfield Stud for the past three seasons, but due to coronavirus the son of Screen Hero (Grass Wonder) did not return to the Hunter Valley stud this season.