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Stakes-winners Keep Coming for Rip Van Winkle

Media Release - Monday June 24
Class performer Sleeping Beauty headlined a great weekend for her sire Rip Van Winkle (Galileo) when scoring back to back black-type victories in the 1400m Listed Weight-For-Age Tauranga Classic on Saturday.

Sleeping Beauty - Trish DunnellSleeping Beauty followed on from her Gr.3 Rotorua Stakes victory six weeks previously with her Classic success to take her record to 10 wins from 23 starts and prizemoney earnings in excess of $238,000.

"She's just so versatile and can handle any ground, she's just a really good racehorse," commented co-trainer Andrew Scott.

"It is very encouraging so fingers crossed we can crack on to the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate and those early season stakes races."

Rip Van Winkle was also represented by two further winners at Riccarton on Saturday where this seasons stakes winner Lil Miss Swiss recorded her sixth win – and fifth for the season - in the Amberley Cup over 1600m.

In Australia, Rip Van Winkle's son Take It Intern narrowly missed gaining his first black-type success when a close runnerup in the Listed GH Mumm Handicap at Eagle Farm in Brisbane while in Italy, Rip Van Winkle's British-trained daughter Shailene provided her sire with his 29th individual stakes winner when successful in the Listed Premio Paolo Mezzanotte in Milan.

Rip Van Winkle stands at Windsor Park Stud where his 2019 service fee has been set at $12,500+GST

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