Daily Debutant Becomes 'One to Watch'

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday May 16
An expensive Fastnet Rock filly highlighted this morning as a Daily Debutant is now a 'One to Watch' after saluting on debut at Geelong on Tuesday.

Sia as a yearlingTrained by the Hayes / Dabernig partnership, two year-old filly Sia was able to beat older fillies and mares to win the 1000 metre maiden by half a length.

She jumped fairly and settled back in the field behind the leading group, but knuckled down to her task for Regan Bayliss in the straight to power home and win.

A $1.1 million Inglis Easter purchase for Jadeskye Racing / Nordic Breeding & Racing,two year-old Fastnet Rock filly Sia is a full sister to stakes-winner Lake Geneva and is from Group II winning juvenile Hips Don't Lie.

Hips Don't Lie is all but married to Sia's sire Fastnet Rock and has a yearling filly and weanling colt by the Coolmore champion to follow and will foal to him again this spring.

Her four foals to race by Fastnet Rock are all winners with stakes-winner and Group I placegetter Lake Geneva the best of them.

A former brilliant two year-old, Lake Geneva placed in both the Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond Stakes.

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