Australian
bred four year-old Our Mate Art scored a career best win at Durbanviklle in
South Africa on Saturday when taking out the Group III World Sports Betting
Matchem Stakes.
Trained by Candice Bass-Robinson, Our Mate Art defeated another Aussie bred
galloper in Table Bay (Redoute's Choice x Gabriella (GB) to win the 1400 metre
sprint by half a length.
Group placed four times previously, Our Mate Art has won three of 12 starts
placing a further five times.
Our Mate Art was a $135,000 Inglis Premier purchase for M Shirtliff from the
Ernivale Thoroughbreds draft and is the first winner for Laureldean Dream
(USA), a half-sister by Stravinsky to Group I winner and sire Ad Valorem (USA).
He
was the most expensive yearling by his sire sold in 2015 and was bred by Peter
Anastasiou, who also bred the second place-getter in last week’s Arc de Triomphe,
Cloth of Stars.
Laureldean Dream was covered again by Artie Schiller last spring and produced a
colt foal last week.
Our Mate Art is the 39th stakes-winner for Aquis Farm's Artie
Schiller, who stands this spring at their Murrurundi base at a fee of $33,000.