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QUEZETTE STAKES PREVIEW |
By Phil Purser17/08/2012 |
Photo/caption Phil Purser |
 I go exclusively looking for fillies that will like the heavy track in the Quezette Stakes tomorrow. Caulfield hosts eight races tomorrow on an assured bog track.
The meeting sees some high profile horses resuming – names like Samaready, Elite Elle, Luckygray all come to mind.
Hopefully they’ll scratch Luckygray, as whilst the horse is bred okay for wet tracks, starting him first up on a bog track over 1400 metres is just crazy in my opinion, as they run the risk of pulling the guts out of the horse and flattening him for the rest of his Melbourne campaign. First up at 1400 metres is never an easy task and 1400 metres on a bog track makes the job even harder. Win, lose, or draw the horse would be scratched by now if I owned him - then I might have a horse later on in the Melbourne Spring.
The 3YO fillies in the Quezette Stakes have to only run 1100 metres - so that makes their task less daunting.
I’ve gone into the wet track breeding in the Quezette Stakes and have hopefully found the winning trifecta on the race for website readers.
Let’s work through them:
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COMMENT
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SAMAREADY
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She’s bred to be a duck as she’s by More Than Ready out of a Secret Savings mare, out of a Touching Wood (by Roberto) mare. Has never started on worse than dead but will handle slow and heavy.
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REAL STOLLE
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By good wet track sire Elusive Quality out of a Desert King (x Danehill) mare, out of a Prince True mare, so there are better bred wet trackers in this race.
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MAMA’S CHOICE
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By Redoute’s Choice out of a General Nediym mare. Not for me on slow or heavy going with those two sires involved up close in the pedigree.
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ARMED FOR ACTION
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By Exceed And Excel so she gets no help from the sire side of things. Well bred to handle wet tracks on the dam’s side being out of a Timber Country mare out of a Zephyr Zip mare, but that’s probably not enough.
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FORMIDABLE
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By Strada (a son of Danehill) who shouldn’t be a noted sire of wet trackers by his breeding, out of a Spartacus (xSnippets) mare, out of a Kingston Jamaica (by Biscay) mare and that input from the mares part is really good, so she’ll wake up confused as to whether she’s going to handle it or not. Throw her in for third in exotics.
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ELITE ELLE
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By good wet track sire Shamardal out of an Encosta De Lago mare and he’s a poor wet track sire. Elite Elle’s grandmother is by duck sire Century and her great grandmother is by Karaman and they liked it, so taking that Encosta De Lago line into account, I’m 85/25 that she’ll get through the mud.
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MEMBERS JOY
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By Hussonet who is a good wet track sire, but the dam line is bad for wet tracks as her first dam is by Flying Spur and her second dam is by wet track duffer Rory’s Jester.
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LADY OF HARRODS
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By Dubawi (obscure line to Australians) out of a Strategic mare, out of a Knightly Manner mare so not bred to handle heavy.
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BLOOMINGDALE MISS
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By Shamardal (same sire as Elite Elle) so that’s good, out of a Desert Style mare, out of a Vice Regal mare, out of a Habitat mare so that’s all okay for slow and heavy tracks.
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AGUEDA
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Slow track winner in NSW, but she’s by General Nediym out of a Lacryma Christi mare, out of a Pre Emptive Strike mare, so she shouldn’t handle heavy tracks.
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EPHEMERA
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By duck sire More Than Ready out of a Touch Gold mare. I have never heard of the stallion Touch Gold - so I researched him - and he’s a great grandson of duck sire Northern Dancer, via Vice Regent and Deputy Minister. Touch Gold’s mother Passing Mood is by Buckpasser out of a Northern Dancer mare, so that’s all terrific wet track breeding. The second dam of Ephemera is Fleet Lady and she’s by another sire I’ve never heard of – Avenue of Flags – but he’s a son of Seattle Slew so that’s good. Ephemera’s third dam Dear Mimi is a daughter of Roberto. So whilst Ephemera has a stack of stallions in her breeding, that aren’t readily known to Aussie punters, she should be a good wet tracker.
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MAREEZA
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By Freeze, a sire whose progeny would be only 50/50 to handle slow and heavy as he’s by a wet track duffer Marscay mare out of a Polish Precedent (duck) mare. Mareeza’s dam is by Fasilyev, a son of Nureyev - and her grandmother is by Saddlers Wells, so Mareeza’s dam line is terrific for heavy – the query is the sire. Again when that’s the case I’ll throw her in my exotics for third.
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CONVENE
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By wet track duffer sire Zizou, out of a Flying Spur mare, out of a Brigand mare, meaning that Brigand bit is the only positive, so no.
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CONCLUSION: Three fillies in the race are bred to be ducks – in racebook order – Samaready, Elite Elle and Ephemera, so I’d have those three to win and run second in a trifecta and I’d throw in those three fillies plus each of Formidable, Bloomingdale Miss and Mareeza for third. |
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