Miss Finland was not the only champion mare to produce a winner on Thursday with Makbye Diva also getting in on the act with impressive Sale winner Sublime Diva.
A four year-old daughter of Brazen Beau, the Colin Little trained Sublime Diva clearly takes after her mother in terms of distance aptitude, breaking her maiden with a tough staying win over 2219m.
Placed at four of her previous five starts, Sublime Diva scored by two lengths as a hot favourite to become the sixth winner from eight to race out of her famous mum Makybe Diva.
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“She will go another lap,” said her trainer Colin Little.
“She can stay all day, she’s unbelievably tough. You’d like a stable full of horses with her constitution.
A homebred for Makybe that was never offered for sale, Sublime Diva is a half-sister to stakes-placed Divanation and to the dam of Group II placed Touch of Mink.
Makybe Diva has an unnamed two year-old filly by Written Tycoon that made $500,000 at Magic Millions this year and produced a filly by More Than Ready (USA) last spring.
