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Fabric takes out of Queen Of The South Stakes
The Danny O’Brien-trained Fabric (5 m ex Haberdashery by Pins) broke through at stakes level for the first time when she took out the Queen Of The South Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Morphettville on Saturday in doing so became Waikato Stud-based sire Ocean Park’s (Thorn Park) 15th stakes winner.
The five-year-old mare came close to landing a first stakes race when she finished runner-up in the Ladies Day Vase (Gr 3, 1600m) at Caulfield on October 14 and she finally got her head in front when beating Shop Til I Drop (Savabeel) by a head, while Maximak (Smart Missile) was the same distance away in third.
Fabric has won six of his 23 starts and has won $555,135 in career prize-money.
The mare is one of seven winners out of unraced Pins (Snippets) mare Haberdashery, making her a half-sister to Listed winner Sewreel (Savabeel).
Haberdashery herself is a half-sister 2005 Queensland Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Lachlan River (Desert King).
The mare’s third dam is Listed winner Nancress (Namnan) - the dam of Group 3 scorer My Flashing Star (Snippets), while further back this is the same family as Group 2 winner French Bid (Anabaa) and Listed scorer To Excess (Duporth).
Fabric’s brother was purchased by Breeze-Up Bloodstock for NZ$40,000 at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale last year and he was then bought for $50,000 by Chris Meagher at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale later that year.
Ocean Park’s 15 stakes winners are headed by Group 1-winning trio Tofane, Ocean Billy and Kolding, who added a third top-flight race to his CV last Saturday when he landed the All-Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m).