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The future breeding value of two mares increased significantly with their victories at Pukekohe on Saturday.
Bisou Bisou added the G2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes to her record while the German-bred import Igraine won the G3 Counties Cup.
The Robert Priscott-trained Igraine is by champion sire Galileo and was sourced from the northern hemisphere for Trelawney Stud by bloodstock agent Paul Moroney.Moroney outlaid 65,000 guineas for the mare at the December Tattersall’s Breeding Stock Sale after she had finished fifth to subsequent US G1 winner A Raving Beauty (Mastercraftsman) in a Listed race in Germany
The winner of four of her six starts for Priscott, Igraine is out of the Tiger Hill mare Iota and is a half-sister to the G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern winner Ito (Alderflug)Iota was also a G1 winner of the Grosser Preis de Diana (German Oaks).
Igraine has now recorded five wins from just 12 starts. The 6YO is the first New Zealand stakes winner by Galileo, who has sired 289 black type winners worldwide.Formerly trained by Kevin Myers and now with Nigel Tiley, Bisou Bisou is raced by her breeders John and Di Bowbyes.
She is by Shaft out of Fraise, a Stravinsky half-sister to the dam of G1 winner and sire Testa Rossa (Perugino).Fraise is one of five winners out of the winning mare The Heroine (Heroicity).
The 7YO won on debut for Tiley at Ellerslie earlier this month and joins Magic Shaft as the stallion’s only other stakes winner.She has now won nine of her 38 starts for NZ$167,137 in career prize-money.
Unbeaten Snitzel juvenile Bavella lived up to her connections expectations when she landed the Listed Challenge Stakes at Pukekohe, providing her champion sire with his 86th stakes winner.“I think she might be pretty special,” said Cambridge Stud’s Brendan Lindsay, who bred and races the youngster with his wife Jo.
Trained by Lance Noble, Bavella had won on debut at Ellerslie last month. She is a daughter of the G3 winner Zonza (Zabeel), who is in foal to Cambridge Stud’s new stallion Almanzor.Zonza is a half-sister to the Listed-placed Our Shakira (Cullen) from the family of European champion MIesque (Nureyev).
Bostonian, one of the best of last season’s three-year-old crop, made a strong return to racing with a dashing victory in the Listed Counties Bowl at Pukekohe.Bostonian, by Jimmy Choux, rounded off his 3YO season with a hat-trick of victories in Queensland that culminated with the G3 Sunshine Coast Guineas in July.
The Tony Pike-trained 4YO was primed for a bold first-up effort to claim his seventh career win from just 10 starts.Bostonian will now be set for the premier NZ sprints, the G1 Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie and G1 Telegraph (1200m) at Trentham.