At Te Rapa in New Zealand, Cha Siu Bao won by a big space at his fourth start
and first over 1400m for the O'Sullivan/Scott training team.He is the fifth foal of former classy mare Ballet Society, winner of four group races including the Angus Armanasco Stakes Gr2 and Vanity Stakes Gr2, and also placed in the Thousand Guineas Gr1.
Cha Siu Bao was offered at the 2015 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale in the draft of Widden Stud and purchased by Anton Koolman Bloodstock for $425,000.
He becomes the second winner for Smart Missile this season in New Zealand and from only low numbers so far that's enough to see him at the top of the second season table by winners.
At Pakenham in Australia he was represented by Missile Boom who also won a 1400m event as favourite for trainer John McArdle.
Missile Boom was a $90,000 purchase for Slade Bloodstock form the draft of Cornerstoone Stud at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
He is the eighth foal and fourth winner for Full Bloom, a non-winning stakes-placed daughter of Snippets and a half-sister to the dams of top stallions Snitzel and Hinchinbrook.
Missile Boom's win has seen Smart Missile race away to a sizeable lead on the Australian second season sires table by winners with 10 and he sits second on the earnings list behind Foxwedge, another son of Fastnet Rock, who has also had a stellar start to the season with two stakes winners.
