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So You Think adds two new Group 1 winners and Shamus Award sires his 5th
New Group 1 winners
Eight and Nine for So You Think
So You Think (High Chaparral) sired a Group 1 treble at Randwick on Saturday and two new Group 1 winners taking his overall tally to nine. Already a Group 1 winner, Knights Order (7 g ex Lamanka Lass by Woodman) was winning for the second time at the highest level when he took out the Sydney Cup (Gr 1, 3200m), while Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) winner Think It Over (6 g ex Personal Service by Zabeel) and Queen Of The Turf (Gr 1, 1600m) heroine Nimalee (5 m ex Dezign by Zabeel) became Group 1 winners number eight and nine for the son of High Chaparral (Sadler's Wells). The Coolmore Australia-based stallion has now been propelled to the head of the leading sires table in Australia by earnings.
So You Think's other Group 1 winners are Quick Thinker, La Diosa, Nakeeta Jane, Sopressa, D'Argento and Interference.
Five for Shamus Award
Having her first start in Group 1 company, El Patroness (3 f ex Sure You Can by O'Reilly) became the fifth Group 1 winner for Rosemont Stud's Shamus Award (Snitzel) when she won Saturday's Australian Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) at Randwick. Trained by Danny O'Brien, who also trained her sire, El Patroness, beat Gypsy Goddess (Tarzino) by two and a half lengths. Shamus Award has sired five individual stakes winners this season and is sitting fifth in the leading sires table in Australia by earnings.
New stakes winners
Eight for Capitalist
Cannonball (2 c ex Golconda by Snitzel) remained unbeaten in two starts this preparation when he won the Redoute's Choice (Listed, 1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday and in doing so became the eighth stakes winner for his young Newgate Farm-based sire Capitalist (Written Tycoon). Trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, Cannonball, a $975,000 Magic millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale by James Harron Bloodstock who also purchased his sire, has now won two of his four career starts. Capitalist is currently in second place in the leading second season sires table in Australia by earnings behind Maurice (Screen Hero).
28 for Pierro
Paris Dior (2 f ex Entrancing by Exceed And Excel) became the 28th stakes winner for Coolmore Australia's Pierro (Lonhro) when she won Saturday's Percy Sykes Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Randwick. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, the filly beat Willinga Beast (Snitzel) by a head with that pair a good four lengths clear of Lady Laguna (Overshare) in third. Paris Dior is Pierro's and one of five stakes winners this season for the son of Lonhro (Octagonal).
Six for Hallowed Crown
Twin Hill Stud's Hallowed Crown (Street Sense) sired stakes winner number six on Saturday when the James Cummings-trained Vilana (3 c ex Retsina by Redoute's Choice) won the South Pacific (Listed, 1400m) at Randwick. The winner of her last two starts, Vilana handled the step up into stakes company well when she beat favourite, Loch Eagle (Lonhro), by three quarters of a length. Hallowed Crown's progeny is headed by his dual Group 1 winning daughter Colette.
88 for Frankel
Stepping up into stakes company for the first time, My Whisper (3 f ex Hersigh by Poet's Voice) became the 88th stakes winner for Juddmonte Farm's Frankel (Galileo) when she won the Auraria Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Owned by Yulong Investments and trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, the Australian-bred daughter of Frankel scored a three quarter length victory over Bon's A Perla (Bon Hoffa), her fourth career victory in five starts. Frankel has a strike rate of 15.5 per cent stakes winners to runners and in Australia that strike rate is 17.9 per cent with ten stakes winners from 56 runners.
24 for Foxwedge
Stakes placed previously, Harleymoven (3 g ex Inishmore by More Than Ready) won Saturday's Port Adelaide Guineas (Listed, 1800m) at Morphettville, handing his Woodside Park-based sire Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock) his 24th stakes winner. Foxwedge covered a book of 104 mares at Woodside Park last year when his fee was set at $11,000 (inc GST).