Emirates Park Brand on Fire

Media Release - Thursday February 4

The familiar brand of Emirates Park is playing a major role in the current domestic 2-year-old season and featured again on midweek metropolitan programs staged in both Melbourne and Sydney. In a relatively short space of time, juveniles sporting the ‘EP’ label of the long established Upper Hunter Valley outfit claimed the first races on the respective Sandown-Hillside and Randwick-Kensington programs.

Lightsaber was bred and sold by Emirates Park - image Racing Photos.

Racing in the colours of Blueblood Thoroughbreds, Lightsaber won at just his second career start for the Peter Moody stable when claiming a 1300m juvenile set weights contest by three-quarters of a length. The son of Zoustar was widely expected to land the odd as a short-priced favourite and justified his $2.45 starting price.

Significantly, Lightsaber was offered on behalf of Emirates Park at the 2020 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale where the colt was sold to JCS Thoroughbreds for $80,000. Blueblood Thoroughbreds then subsequently acquired Lightsaber at the Inglis Ready-2-Race Sale late last year.

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The Emirates Park brand was also carried to an impressive victory when Hilal scored an impressive victory over 1100 metres at Kensington as his first career start. 

A son of Fastnet Rock produced by a daughter of Emirates Park’s Group 3 Fernhill Stakes winner Salameh, Hilal hails from the immediate family of a plethora of domestic racetrack and stud luminaries, including Redoute’s Choice, Hurricane Sky, Umatilla, Manhattan Rain etc, as well as the stud’s stalwart sire Al Maher.

The interstate success of Lightsaber and Hilal illustrates Emirates Park’s ability to both sell and retain quality bloodstock as yearlings which are just as likely to meet with equal success.

Emirates Park bred Enthaar - image Racing Photos

Their brace of victories also come swiftly on the heels of the breathtaking Group 3 Chairman’s Stakes victory of Enthaar at Caulfield last weekend when the Emirates Park bred and raced filly confirmed her place at the head of the market for this month’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m).

Emirates Park have three Lots to offer at the 2021 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale — 12 months on from selling today’s Sandown-Hillside winner Lightsaber — including a filly by Fastnet Rock, sire of brilliant winner Hilal.

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