Saturday, 31 October 2009: Centennial Park capped a memorable week for New Zealand's Windsor Park, when winning the G3 AAMI Business Insurance Stakes, which followed fellow Windsor Park product Monaco Consul's win in today's Victoria Derby.
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Like last week's Cox Plate winner So You Think,
Monaco Consul 
and
Centennial Park were both sold through the draft of Windsor Park.
Monaco Consul produced a superior staying effort to claim the G1 Victoria Derby, thus adding to an already outstanding season for his sire
High Chaparral .
Just a week after So You Think destroyed the older horses in the G1 WS Cox Plate, Monaco Consul delivered in today's Derby.
So You Think and Monaco Consul are from High Chaparral's first southern hemisphere crop.
Monaco Consul had previously won the G1 Spring Champion Stakes on a very heavy track at Randwick to become his sire's first Group 1 winner.
On a dryer track today – and at significantly reduced odds – the colt justified the lofty opinion of trainer Mike Moroney to gun down the David Hayes trained Extra Zero in the 2500m feature.
Purchased by Paul Moroney from Windsor Park Stud's 2008 NZB Select Yearling Sale draft for $100,000, Monaco Consul is out of the Star Way mare Argante.
Monaco Consul is one of three winners from six to race from Argante, who is a half-sister to G1 Australian Guineas winner Military Plume.
The family also includes last season's Group 1 winning siblings Niconero and Nicconi.
High Chaparral, a Coolmore product, shuttles to Windsor Park off a fee of $17,500.
Centennial Park is a son of resident Windsor Park stallion
Thorn Park .
Today was his second win at stakes level, following a Listed success last season.
He was passed in for $140,000 through Windsor Park's 2007 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale draft. Centennial Park is from the Last Tycoon mare Trephina, who is one of six winners to date from the outstanding producer Procrastinate, whose progeny include G1 winner Laisserfaire and stakes winners Foreplay, Time Thief and Personify.
Thorn Park, a son of Spinning World, was retired to stud after winning the 2004 G1 Stradbroke Handicap.
