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Mare hands late Cambridge Stud-based sire Tavistock with his 25th stakes winner.
The Symon Wilde-trained Tralee Rose (4 m ex Star Of Tralee by Zabeel) produced one of the performances of the day when she took out the Bagot Handicap (Listed, 2800m) at Flemington on Friday and in the process handed late Cambridge Stud-based sire Tavistock (Montjeu) with his 25th stakes winner.
Tralee Rose defeated Sin To Win (Sir Percy) by an emphatic seven lengths with Saint Eustace - who is also by Tavistock - another length and a quarter away in third.
"I've never seen one with a tank like hers. She'll stay all day," Wilde said.
"I think in springtime we're going to see a really good horse."
Wilde said he would aim Tralee Rose at either the Adelaide Cup (Gr 2, 3200m) in March or the Andrew Ramsden Stakes (Listed, 2800m) at Flemington in May.
Purchased by her trainer and Cameron Cooke Bloodstock for NZ$50,000 at the 2018 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka National Yearling Sale in 2018, the mare is out of dual-winning Zabeel (Sir Tristram) mare Star Of Tralee.
Star Of Tralee herself is a half-sister to three-time Group 1 winner Serenade Rose (Stravinsky) and she is the grandam of Godolphin's top-class dual elite level-winning sprinter Trekking (Street Cry) and Listed winner Winnie Star (Medaglia d'Oro).
Tavistock has proved a good match for daughters of Zabeel (Sir Tristram) with Tralee Rose becoming the eighth winner bred on the cross, with four of his six Group 1 winners bred on the same nick.
Tavistock's progeny is headed by six Group 1 winners, including now Westbury Stud-based sire Tarzino, whose first runners hit the track this season. Tavistock died last year.
Meanwhile, Clear Mountain View-based sire Wanted (Fastnet Rock) was handed his fifth stakes winner on Friday when the Saab Hasan-trained Sirius Suspect (6 g ex Sirius Miss by Galileo) added some much deserved black-type to his record in the Standish Handicap (Gr 3, 1200m) at Flemington.
Sirius Suspect, who could now be aimed at the Newmarket Handicap (Gr 1, 1200m), defeated Albumin (Foxwedge) by a length and a quarter, Defiant Dancer (Foxwedge) was another short-head away third.
Sirius Suspect is one of four winners out of winning Galileo (Sadler's Wells) mare Sirius Miss.
Wanted stood for a fee of $5,500 (inc GST) in 2020.