Pedigree Watch – 2YO Stars on the Rise

Tara Madgwick - Sunday January 29

In the past few days we’ve seen some moving and shaking in Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper markets with the Blue Diamond Previews and Canonbury and Widden Stakes all won by first time stakes-winners, so let’s check out the pedigrees.

Coolmore’s champion sire Fastnet Rock is proving every bit as influential as a broodmare sire with his daughters producing two exceptional fillies in Learning to Fly and De Sonic Boom, who both won their stakes races on debut, which is no easy task.

Learning to Fly won the G3 ATC Widden Stakes (1100m), read about her here.

She is the first Australian stakes-winner for Justify (USA) and is the 81st for Fastnet Rock as a broodmare sire.

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De Sonic Boom won the G3 MRC Blue Diamond Preview (1000m), read about her here.

 

She is the 20th stakes-winner for Spirit of Boom and is his first stakes-winner from a Fastnet Rock mare, although he has had seven winners from 10 runners bred this way including another good 2YO in Miss Coota.

 

Red Resistance downed the hot favourite King’s Gambit to win the G3 ATC Canonbury Stakes (1100m), read about him here.

He became the fifth SW for Russian Revolution and is the 60th for Lonhro as a broodmare sire.

 

The Instructor won the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview (1000m), read about him here.

 

Russian Revolution sired two new stakes-winners in three days in The Instructor and Red Resistance, both colts trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

They are also bred a on a similar nick with Red Resistance from a mare by Lonhro and The Instructor from a mare by Lonhro’s Golden Rose winning son Denman.

The Instructor is the first stakes-winner for Denman as a broodmare sire.

 

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