With just 12 foals in his first crop, dual Group 1 winner Rebel Raider was up against it from the start, however, a switch to
The son of Reset had 58 live foals from his second crop, the first at Wyndholm Park, and one of those, the three-year-old filly Pretty Punk, became her sire's first stakes winner with a dominant win in Saturday's Listed Hill Smith Stakes (1800m) at Morphettville.
Fittingly, Rebel Raider's first stakes winner comes from the stable of Hall of Fame trainer Leon Macdonald and co-trainer Andrew Gluyas.
Macdonald trained Rebel Raider to win the 2008 Group 1 Victoria Derby and Group 1 South Australia Derby.
Claire Lindop was the rider on both occasions and she had the option to ride Pretty Punk on Saturday but elected to ride stablemate Ace Attack, also by Rebel Raider, who finished sixth.
Jason Bowditch was the lucky recipient of the winning ride.
"She's a good filly,'' Bowditch told the Adelaide Advertiser.
"She was wide but had some cover and she was really strong.''
Making her sixth start, Pretty Punk had broken her maiden at her previous start when Lindop guided her to a three-quarter length susses over 1400 metres at Morphettville on a heavy track.
Pretty Punk will make the trip to Melbourne for the Group II Wakeful Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day.
Bred by Harry Perks and raised at Mill Park, she is the third named foal of the Moonee Valley winner Reliability (Kurofume) who was purchased as a broodmare for $35,000 by Hancock Quality Bloodstock for Harry Perks at the 2008 Inglis Great Southern Bloodstock sale.
She hails from the family of Epsom Derby winners Pour Moi and Lammatarra as well as the blue hen Korveya the dam of Classic winners Bosra Sham, Hector Protector and Shanghai.
Reliability has been a regular visitor to the court of Rebel Raider.
She has a 2yo colt by the son of Reset and was served by him again last spring after missing in 2014.
