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7—SPORTSMAN, www.thesportsman.com.au Friday, October 30, 2015—7

Breeders’ GuideDalradian’s on the path to $2m glory

By SHAYNE O’CASS

THE potential for a $2.25m pay-day, as unlikely as that seems to-day, is a possibility for connec-tions of last weekend’s MVRC Inglis Banner winner Dalradian.

By winning the Cox Plate day feature fi rst taken out and re-named in honour of Inglis grad-uate Starspangledbanner, Dal-radian has captured the opening leg of the Inglis Triple Crown.

To win the huge bonus, an In-glis graduate (in this case, Dal-radian) must win either the Ban-ner (tick) or the Inglis Nursery as the fi rst leg.

Leg two consists of the VRC or ATC Sires’ Produce on an ‘either’ basis but to secure the huge divi-dend, they MUST win the Inglis Guineas at the Scone stand-alone set down for May each year.

How far Dalradian gets along the Triple Crown path remains to be seen but he’s already done a few favours for Chatswood Stud proprietor Greg Willis.

Willis stands Dalradian’s sire, Reward For Effort, owns the gelding’s dam Miss Ireland and sold the horse to trainer Darren Weir at the 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale for $55,000.

“The two best money earners Reward For Effort has had so far, Gold Symphony and Dalra-dian, were both born and raised here with our brand on them so it’s really good for the Farm. And obviously we stand the stal-lion and own the mare, so it’s re-ally, really good for us,” Willis said.

FAST and fl ashy.This is USA import

Moonlark at full tilt.A son of the mighty

Gone West blessed with electrifying pace and speed, Moonlark is com-ing to the end of his fi rst season on duty at Win-ning Colours Farm out-side Bathurst in the cen-tral west of NSW.

Moonlark was sold for US$675,000 at the Keene-land September Year-ling Sale in Kentucky in 2008.

Housed with Ameri-can Pharaoh’s trainer Bob Baffert in Califor-nia, Moonlark’s two race wins (from a total of 15 starts) both came at Hol-

lywood Park in 2010.His fi rst was by 3 ¼-lens

in a six furlong (or about 1200m) maiden.

Later that year, Moon-lark won a claiming over 5.5 furlongs (about 1100m) by 6 ¼-lens in a time of 1:02.66, just 0.57s outside the course record.

Second to Moonlark that day by a dozen or more lengths was Stone-side, an Irish bred gal-loper who went on to be a multiple Group winner of over US$600,000.

Moonlark’s sire, Gone West, is the most su-perbly bred stallion imaginable.

His sire Mr. Prospec-tor needs no introduc-tion, he and Northern Dancer are the two most important in-fl uential stallions of

the second half of the 20th Century.

Gone West’s dam, Se-crettame is a daughter of the immortal Secretar-iat and out of Kentucky Derby winner Tim Tam’s daughter Tamerett, also the dam of dual Group or Grade 1 winners Known Fact and Tentam.

A Grade 1 winner of the Dwyer Stakes at Bel-mont, Gone West went onto become a tremen-dously successful sire with 95 stakeswinners, more than 700 winners with collective earnings of over US$114m.

Gone West’s most nota-ble progeny include Zaf-onic, Came Home, Grand Slam as well as Da Hoss, Johar and the mighty Speightstown who all won a Breeders’ Cup fea-ture of one sort.

Moonlark’s dam-line is just as impressive.

His dam, Laptop, is by Phone Trick best known as the sire of Favourite Trick who was the fi rst since Secretariat to be named USA Horse of the Year while still a 2YO.

Laptop’s dam, Roll Over Baby is a multiple stakeswinner whose 11 foals all raced, 9 of them won, four of those were stakeswinners, one other stakes-placed.

Roll Over Baby was sold for $1m at auction in Kentucky.

Her own foals fared even better when they were offered at various points along the time-line; one made $1.1m, an-other $1.5m while a third sold for a then world re-cord price of US$2m as a two-year-old in training.

By SHAYNE O’CASS

ONE of the hottest fami-lies in the Australian Stud Book might be about to boil over this weekend with the chance to add a VRC Derby winner to its ranks.

It was in 2002 that the Ron Quinton trained Bulla Bor-ghese won the VRC Oaks and now, more than a decade lat-er, the mare’s ‘cousin’ Lizard Island has a chance to win the VRC Derby.

Willing him on is Reg Kem-ister, owner/breeder of 2006 Golden Rose winner Court Command, who bought Bulla Borghese towards the end of her racing career.

Bulla Borghese has turned out to be a sensational invest-ment for Kemister having pro-duced seven named foals to

date, fi ve runners, all of them winners including Group 2 winner Bound For Earth as well as the stakes-placed Melpomene who is respon-sible for this season’s epic Gimcrack winning two-year-old, Calliope and the Group 3-placed Thalia.

Kemister continues to give Bulla Borghese every chance, she has a colt by Northern Meteor plus a cracking fi lly by I Am Invincible, pictured.

Bulla Borghese was cov-ered by Press Statement’s sire, Hinchinbrook this spring.

Kemister’s Derby Day could add up to something very special tomorrow as the breeder of Singpaore cham-pion Super One who lines-up in the Group 1 VRC Coolmore Stud Classic (1200m).

The superbly-bred American import Moonlark is sure to have plenty of admirers in his fi rst season at Winning Colours Farm

A fl ashy MoonImport adds intrigue to the ranks

Kemister’s cheering for Lizard

Pic by Georgina Lomax