This
talented daughter of Foxwedge was frustratingly close to a stakes win last season
at two, but with this commanding victory at Geelong on Tuesday has shown she is
ready to be right in the thick of spring carnival racing.
The Tony McEvoy trained Aristocratic Miss was a red hot favourite for her
return in the 1300 metre maiden and never looked in danger of defeat.
She travelled smoothly in fifth position for Luke Currie and when asked to accelerate
down the straight quickly dropped her overmatched rivals and forged clear for a
four length win.
A $65,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the Grange Thoroughbreds draft for McEvoy
Mitchell Racing, Aristocratic Miss had been stakes-placed four times previously
last season, so was well overdue to break the ice and can go forward swiftly
with this maiden victory under her belt.
Bred by Henry Field and partners at Newgate Farm, Aristocractic Miss was sold originally
by Newgate as a weanling at the Magic Millions National Sale fetching $25,000
when pinhooked by Gary Mudgway.
She is the best of eight winners from top producer and stakes-winner Golden
Pedigree, a half-sister to the dam of Group I winner The Verminator.
Aristocratic Miss looks a great chance of giving her sire Foxwedge another
stakes-winner in the new season, the Group I winning son of Fastnet Rock
standing at a fee of $22,000 at Newgate Farm this spring.