Najmaty - Back with a Vengeance

Mark Smith - Saturday May 28

 The final race on a stellar card at Eagle Farm may have thrown up the win of the day.

Completing a stakes treble for Peter and Paul Snowden, Emirate Park’s 3yo I Am Invincible filly Najmaty came from a seemingly impossible position to capture the Listed Magic Millions Helen Coughlan Stakes (1200m).

Najmaty thunders home in fading light (image Grant Courtney)

Najmaty thunders home in fading light (image Grant Courtney)

The only ride of the day for Tommy Berry, Najmaty had just one runner behind her at the 300m.

Making her run down the centre of the track, Najmaty picked off one after another to win by three-quarters of a length. Salateen completed the quinella for I Am Invincible, a short-half-head to the good of the Dawn Approach (IRE) mare Tahitian Dancer.

Najmaty looked a budding superstar when winning her first two races, including the Listed Redoute’s Choice Stakes at Caulfield, but seemed to lose all form before bouncing back at Caulfield at her most recent start.  

“She’s a lovely filly, and we’ve been ultra impressed with what she’s done at home, and we were very confident today,” Paul Snowden said.

“It was Tommy’s only ride for the day, he came up here with five, and four of them were scratched. So, he’s had a long day, but thankfully we’ve got her home.

“We could back-up next Saturday, or there’s another race for her in a fortnight. She’ll play on up here, providing we get back here (Eagle Farm) because she’s not a wet-track filly at all. As you can see that takes away from her finish.

“We were ultra-pleased with how she’s been working from home and, more importantly, getting the job done for Emirates Park.

“She certainly takes a fair bit of work, hence the fact of trials from one run to the next. She’s been kept up to the mark, but she will pull up pretty well from here, and she’s a resilient filly.

“As a two-year-old she was a Stakes winner and probably lost her way a bit 12 months ago and started playing up in the gates. We mended those manners, and she’s jumping really well.”

A homebred for Emirates Park, Najmaty is a half-sister to the talented Snitzel filly Najmah who visited I am Invincible last spring.

They are the first two live foals of the top-class Northern Meteor mare Najoom.

A $225,000 purchase out of Willow Park Stud draft at the 2013 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Najoom won five and was runner-up in two of her seven career starts. She looked like a Group 1 winner in waiting when trouncing the field in the Group III Hawkesbury Guineas, run that year at Rosehill.

It was a similar story at her next start, thrashing the Group III Fred Best Classic on this day in 2015, but sadly did not race again.

Najmaty descends from a prolific family, which was a Best On Breeding subject last year. (Read it here).

Najoom has a yearling sister to Najmaty and a weanling filly by Tassort. She was covered by Capitalist last spring.

 

 

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Race Result - M.Millions Helen Coughlan Stks LR 1200m

Eagle Farm Track: Good(3) Time: 1:10.37
1
Najmaty
- 3f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Najoom (AUS) (Northern Meteor (AUS))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: Tommy Berry 55
2
0.8
Salateen
- 4m I Am Invincible (AUS) x Salma (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: J Byrne 56.5
3
0.9
Tahitian Dancer
- 6m Dawn Approach (IRE) x Takanori (AUS) (Vital Equine (IRE))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: Jamie Kah 55.5
4
1.0
Juan Diva
- 5m Snitzel (AUS) x Peron (AUS) (Husson (ARG))
Tnr: Richard & Will Freedman Rdr: Craig Williams 56
5
2.0
Written Beauty
- 4m Written Tycoon (AUS) x Beauty World (AUS) (Danehill Dancer (IRE))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: W Pike 57.5
6
2.2
Tycoon Evie
- 4m Written Tycoon (AUS) x Winaura (AUS) (Show A Heart (AUS))
Tnr: Rex Lipp & Nick Hahn Rdr: M R Du Plessis 56
7
2.7
Centrefire
- 5m Shooting To Win (AUS) x Coco Kerringle (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: Chris Munce Rdr: S T Collett 55.5
8
3.7
Majestic Shot
- 4m Shooting To Win (AUS) x Curtsey (AUS) (Viscount (AUS))
Tnr: Grant Allard Rdr: L Magorrian 56
9
4.0
Miss Hipstar
- 3f Star Turn (AUS) x Single Style (NZ) (Not A Single Doubt (AUS))
Tnr: K M Schweida Rdr: L V Cassidy 55
10
4.2
Vulpine
- 5m Snitzel (AUS) x Elusive Leone (AUS) (Elusive Quality (USA))
Tnr: Brad Widdup Rdr: R Wiggins 57.5
11
5.0
April Rain
- 5m Pierro (AUS) x Faith Hill (AUS) (Danehill (USA))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: J B Mc Donald 56
12
5.1
Dirty Thoughts
- 4m So You Think (NZ) x Sheer Fantazee (AUS) (Testa Rossa (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher & D Eustace Rdr: J Bowman 57.5
13
5.4
East Asia
- 5m Swiss Ace (AUS) x China Choice (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: R L Heathcote Rdr: James Orman 56.5
14
5.8
Kisukano
- 4m Bel Esprit (AUS) x Kiss For Gran (AUS) (Show A Heart (AUS))
Tnr: M G Nolan Rdr: S Clipperton 56
15
5.9
Redoute's Image
- 4m Redoute's Choice (AUS) x Tracy's Image (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: K A Lees Rdr: B Avdulla 56
16
7.1
Eloquently
- 4m Poet's Voice (GB) x Answer Me (AUS) (Belong To Me (USA))
Tnr: S P Tregea Rdr: Anthony Allen 55.5
17
7.6
Stolen Jade
- 5m So You Think (NZ) x Jewel Theft (AUS) (Jade Robbery (USA))
Tnr: C E Conners Rdr: Kyle Wilson-Taylor 56
18
9.4
Starla
- 5m Snitzel (AUS) x Houston Benefactor (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: N Rawiller 56.5
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