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Starspangledbanner filly Thrillster led home a nostalgic quinella for father and son training team Leon and Troy Corstens at Bendigo on Saturday.
Thrillster (Starspangledbanner x Heart of Thrills by Show a Heart) showed the benefit of stakes placing on debut last month to win the $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush Plate, beating her stablemate Really Swish by a nose.
Leon and Troy Corstens also trained Starspangledbanner and were delighted to see his promising daughter win the rich 2YO event.“We trained Starspangledbanner, so it’s a great result. I think he deserves to get a really good horse,” said Troy Corstens.
“He was a really good horse himself so hopefully she’ll go on. She might be a Guineas horse next spring.”Thillster is the 50th winner worldwide for Starspangledbanner, who battled fertility issues early in his stud career before enjoying a successful stint at Rosemont Stud in Victoria.
Starspangledbanner has returned to full commercial use standing at Coolmore in the Hunter Valley. He had over 50 foals born in Australia last year and covered a further 56 mares at Coolmore last spring.Thrillster is VOBIS eligible as Coolmore-based Starspangledbanner was standing in Victoria when she was conceived.
She is eligible to run for $300,000 on the VOBIS raceday at Caulfield on April 21.Thrillster was a $60,000 Melbourne Premier sale purchase from the Rosemont Stud draft for Malua Bloodstock and is the first winner for her dam Heart of Thrills, a three-quarter sister-in-blood to G3 winner Gotta Have Heart and stakes-winner Crossyourheart.
She earned $137,500 prizemoney plus a $30,000 Super VOBIS bonuses with Saturday’s win.• The Symon Wilde-trained Dodging Bullets won the Listed Golden Mile at Bendigo, providing his sire Dash For Cash with his ninth stakes winner.
The six-year-old Dodging Bullets (Dash For Cash x Young Love by Danzero) bounced back from his last start disappointment in the Listed March Stakes when he beat Seaburge by half a length.Dash For Cash stands at Scenic Lodge in Western Australia.
• The deceased stallion Hussonet sired his 97th stakes winner courtesy of his filly Blue Morpho’s victory in the Listed Laelia Stakes at Morphettville.
The 3YO Blue Morpho (Hussonet x High Butterfly by Royal Academy) was second on her most recent start over the same course and distance in March. She managed to go one better beating Pandemonium (Sebring) by two and a quarter lengths with Earth Angel (Animal Kingdom) third.Blue Morpho’s Group One winning trainer Dan Clarken scored a breakthrough stakes success with his new co-trainer and partner Oopy MacGillivray.
One of the main lead up races to the Australasian Oaks, the Laelia Stakes attracted a strong field of fillies from Melbourne, Sydney and New Zealand.Blue Morpho was bred and sold by Marana Park Thoroughbreds to MacGillivray for just $17,000 at the 2016 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale.
The Ben Currie-trained 4YO Amanaat gave NZ-based sire Per Incanto his tenth stakes winner when he ran out a decisive winner of the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.Amanaat (Per Incanto x Mazij by General Nediym) beat Hi I’m Back (Sequalo) by two and three quarter lengths with Jumbo Prince (Outback Prince) third.
Currie is planning a winter campaign with Amanaat.• Lope De Vega filly Mizlecki took out the Listed Raconteur Stakes at Ascot to provide her former shuttle sire with his 37th stakes winner.
The Fred Kersley-trained Mizlecki (Lope De Vega x Miss Strezelecki by Al Maher) beat Miracle Man (Viscount) by a length and a half with Abdicator (Universal Ruler) third.Lope De Vega shuttled to the now defunct Patinack Farm for four seasons between 2011 and 2014 covering 467 mares.
Mizlecki was a graduate of the Yarradale Stud draft at the 2016 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale and is raced by Fred Kersley’s wife Judith Kersley.Mizlecki now boasts a record of three wins and two second placings from eight starts.
