Wessex Lets Loose

Media Release - Monday May 15

Wessex, the brilliant second-crop daughter of Turn Me Loose who won the Gr.3 Rotorua Stakes last Saturday, further enhanced her own value as well as her young sire’s growing tally of stakes winners to become Turn Me Loose’s third three-year-old Group winner this season and seventh individual stakes winner to date.

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Wessex had signalled her class when finishing third to Legarto in the Gr.2 Eight Carat Classic and resuming at Rotorua from a spell last Saturday, she comprehensively put away a field of older mares in the Gr.3 feature with a dazzling front running display reminiscent of her tough, triple Gr.1 winning sire.
 
A $150,000 Karaka purchase from the yearling draft of Windsor Park Stud Wessex was purchased by owner Ben Kwok and trainer Andrew Forsman and is from Gr.1 placed Falkirk mare Trepidation.
 
Turn Me Loose is enjoying great success and Wessex aside, his other three-year-old Group winners this season include Gr.1 winning filly (She’s) Licketysplit, winner of the Gr.2 Edward Manifold Stakes at the 2022 Melbourne Spring racing carnival and Loosespender, whose 2023 Gr.2 Waikato Guineas victory came at just his third race-day start. Their success has propelled the second crop of Turn Me Loose to a phenomenal 11% Group Winners to runners ratio.

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Turn Me Loose, whose progeny have sold up to $500,000 at Karaka, has plenty of exciting talent coming through the grades including recent Australian 2YO debut winner Our Turn Now, It’s Business Time, the winner of three of her last four starts and Roederer a winner of two of his four starts to date.



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