Darley
shuttler Dawn Approach (IRE) had a good Saturday in two hemispheres with a
stylish winner at Moonee Valley in Tahitian Dancer and also a new stakes-winner
at Sandown in the UK when Haddaf captured the Listed Scurry Stakes.
Trained by James Tate, Haddaf scored a three-quarter length win in the five
furlong sprint and has now three of his four starts this year after being
gelded at the end of his two year-old season which produced a win and a couple
of stakes-placings from eight starts.
An 85,000 guinea purchase from the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Haddaf is
a half-brother to stakes-winner Lamar and is one of six winners from
stakes-placed Cozzene mare Deveron.
Haddaf is the third stakes-winner for Dawn Approach, whose best Australian
offspring so far is Godolphin's stakes-placed filly Gongs.
A champion son of Galileo's Epsom Derby winner New Approach, Dawn Approach stands
at Darley Hunter Valley this spring at a fee of $19,250.