Best On Breeding

Newgate Farm's second season stallion Foxwedge will be favoured to make it three stakes winners in as many weeks with the progressive filly Foxplay starting at a short quote in Saturday's Group II Tea Rose Stakes at Randwick, however, don't discard the chances of another daughter of Foxwedge.

Despite being the second longest priced filly in the race, A Mist Opportunity made an impressive career debut when winning three-year-old fillies maiden at Canterbury on August 31.

Team Hawkes rarely throw them in the deep end if they do not think they will be competitive.

The second most expensive yearling by her sire sold at public auction, A Mist Opportunity (pictured as a yearling ) was knocked down to Astute Bloodstock for $440,000 from the draft of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds at the 2015 Inglis Easter Yearling sale.

She carries the colours of her breeder Peter Katelanis whose light blue, royal blue check sash and cap were carried to victory by the top-class Don't Doubt Mamma in last Saturday's Let's Elope Stakes.

I doubt Katelanis has had too many days where he has doubted the purchase of an Encosta de Lago weanling filly at the Lakewood dispersal in 2004.

She topped the weanling section at $105,000 while her dam, the Southern Appeal mare In The Mist, topped the sale at $157,500.

A top-class racemare who was a 5-time Listed stakes-winner in South Australia, In The Mist would have a huge pedigree update when her 5-time winning sister Southern Sprinter produced the stakes-winning Snippets mare Fragmentation.

Better things were in store when Fragmentation's son Wanted won the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap while another son Shrapnel won the Group II Yallambe Classic and placed in the Group I Coolmore Stud Stakes.

De Lago Mist added to the family fortunes by winning the Group II VRC Sires' Produce Stakes and Group III SAJC Breeders' Stakes.

The grey daughter of Encosta de Lago was also quick of the mark at stud.

Her first foal was the 4-time stakes-winner Instinction (Exceed And Excel) who earned a spot on the Sun Stud stallion roster.

Her third foal Into The Mist (Redoute's Choice) multiplied her value many fold when winning the Group II SAJC Queen of the South Stakes at Morphettville on May 7.

So, A Mist Opportunity has plenty to live up to, as has her 2yo half-sister by Exceed And Excel and her yearling colt by Pierro.