Stakes-Winner for Flying Artie

Tara Madgwick - Thursday October 3

Blue Gum Farm’s Flying Artie posted his first stakes-winner of the new season on Wednesday when consistent five year-old gelding Vast Art won the Listed Hannans Handicap (1400m) at Kalgoorlie.

Trained by Darren McAuliffe, Vast Art was a stakes-winner at three and although winless last season was placed on multiple occasions so was overdue to break back to winning form.

He powered clear to win by  a length and a half taking his overall record to seven wins and eight placings from 22 starts with prizemoney topping $520,000.

 

Vast Art was retained to race by Impressive Racing and partners and is the best of four winners from winning Fastnet Rock mare Fast Gal, a grand-daughter of stakes-winner Donna Dior.

Flying Artie will have a shot at Group I success this weekend with his quality sprinter miler Democracy Manifest to run in the $1.5million Group I Epsom Handicap

Completely free of Danehill blood, Flying Artie is a prove outcross sire and is priced to please at $16,500.

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Race Result - Tabtouch Hannans Hcp LR 1400m

Kalgoorlie Track: Good(4) Time: 1:23.06
1
Vast Art
- 5g Flying Artie (AUS) x Fast Gal (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: D T McAuliffe Rdr: C Johnston-Porter 54
2
1.6
Sentimental Hero
- 7g Al Maher (AUS) x Sentimental Star (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: P J Fernie Rdr: Lucy Fiore 54
3
1.9
River Rubicon
- 6g Rubick (AUS) x Woodala (AUS) (Woodman (USA))
Tnr: S J Wolfe Rdr: S Mc Gruddy 56.5
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4
3.8
Staralign
- 9g Universal Ruler (AUS) x Leenornie (AUS) (Oratorio (AUS))
Tnr: P J Fernie Rdr: Natasha Faithfull 54
5
3.9
No Change
- 8g Reward For Effort (AUS) x Rollon Rose (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: S & J Casey Rdr: Keshaw Dhurun 54
6
4
Minsk Moment
- 6h I Am Invincible (AUS) x Dancing Express (AUS) (Oratorio (AUS))
Tnr: A G Durrant Rdr: Joseph Azzopardi 55
7
5.1
Man Crush
- 5g Manhattan Rain (AUS) x Crushed (AUS) (All Too Hard (AUS))
Tnr: Luke Fernie Rdr: Chris Parnham 58
8
5.9
Weaponson
- 8g Oratorio (AUS) x Weaponess (AUS) (Fath (USA))
Tnr: D L Morton Rdr: Luke Campbell 54
9
6.7
Rokanori
- 6g Awesome Rock (AUS) x Nishikawa (AUS) (Fuji Kiseki (JPN))
Tnr: S J Miller Rdr: S Parnham 55
10
7.6
Ginger Baker
- 7g Gingerbread Man (AUS) x Spring Violet (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: D & B Pearce Rdr: B Parnham 58
11
8
Multinational
- 6g Zoustar (AUS) x French Penn (AUS) (Noverre (USA))
Tnr: N D Parnham Rdr: Laqdar Ramoly 54
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