Not A Single Doubt's Euphoric Summer Earns a Trip to the Gold Coast

Mark Smith - Saturday November 23

Aquis Farm’s expensive Fastnet Rock colt Rathlin looked to have the measure of Phoenix Thoroughbreds Not A Single Doubt filly Euphoric Summer in the closing stages of Saturday’s $250,000 Magic Millions 2YO Clockwise Classic (1000m) at Ballarat but Euphoric Summer showed she had inherited plenty of the intestinal fortitude of her overachieving dam Mid Summer Music.

Ridden by Ben Melham for Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr, Euphoric Summer raced on the outside of the leader Soul Obsession and stubborn refused to yield when tackled by Rathlin to win by a half-head with the Star Witness colt Amish Boy one and a quarter lengths back in third.Euphoric Summer battles on bravely - image Grant Courtney

Coming off a career debut second behind the talented Proud Of Dubai colt Tanker in the Inglis Debutant Stakes at Caulfield on October 12, Euphoric Summer booked her ticket for the $2 million Magic Millions Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast.

"She's a lovely filly that's been going well and her professionalism took her a long way today," Melham told racing.com.

"She was a little bit tardy out of the barriers but I was able to muster into a position where I felt she was able to control the race.

"That run under her belt gave her a solid base of fitness which helped her at the finish."

Mick Kent Jnr said Kent Jnr said Euphoric Summer is likely to have one more start before the Magic Millions Classic on January 11.

"She's a lovely two-year-old type, her mother was a Group 1 winner so I think Phoenix bought this horse very well for $260,000," Kent Jnr said.

"She's got talent but importantly she's got the right brain for a two-year-old, nothing fazes her."

Euphoric Summer is the third foal of Peter Moodie’s blue-collar champion Mid Summer Music.

At the conclusion of her career on the track, Mid Summer Music had banked almost $1.4 million for connections with 11 wins highlighted by a defeat of Buffering in the 2012 Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.Euphoric Summer as a yearling

Sent to the 2013 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, Mid Summer Music was purchased by Tyreel Stud for $300,000.

Covered by All Too Hard, she was back in the ring a year later at the Inglis Easter Broodmare Sale where she was purchased by Bruce Perry Bloodstock, on behalf of Cressfield Stud, for $375,000.

That All Too Hard colt was knocked down to Dermot Farrington at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Named See It Thru he has won twice to date.

At the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Phill Cataldo Bloodstock outlaid $300,000 for Mid Summer Music’s Fastnet Rock filly named Fast Summer Rock who has made just one start in New Zealand.

Euphoric Summer is the third foal of Mid Summer Music. The daughter of Not A Single Doubt was consigned by Cressfield to the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale where she was knocked down to Phoenix Thoroughbreds for $260,000.

Mid Summer Music has a Fastnet Rock filly heading to the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January. The daughter of Oamaru Force missed to Merchant Navy last year.

 

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Race Result - M. M. 2yo Clockwise Classic 1000m

Ballarat Track: Good(4) Time: 0:59.74
1
Euphoric Summer
- 2f Not A Single Doubt (AUS) x Mid Summer Music (AUS) (Oamaru Force (AUS))
Tnr: M Price & M Kent Jnr Rdr: B Melham 56
2
0.1
Rathlin
- 2c Fastnet Rock (AUS) x Wiener (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: C Maher & D Eustace Rdr: M Zahra 58
3
1.4
Amish Boy
- 2c Star Witness (AUS) x Sheeznodoubt (AUS) (Not A Single Doubt (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher & D Eustace Rdr: Ms L J Meech 58
4
1.5
Soul Obsession
- 2f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Spirit Mania (AUS) (Lucky Owners (NZ))
Tnr: Anthony Freedman Rdr: L Currie 56
5
9.4
La Girl
- 2f Not A Single Doubt (AUS) x La Fluorescent (NZ) (General Nediym (AUS))
Tnr: D & B Hayes & T Dabernig Rdr: L Nolen 56
6
11.9
Chocolate Kisses
- 2f Exceed And Excel (AUS) x Miss Hufflepuff (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: M J Dee 56
7
12.1
Diesel 'n' Dust
- 2g Pride Of Dubai (AUS) x Mooshakissa (AUS) (Duporth (AUS))
Tnr: Jason Warren Rdr: Beau Mertens 58
8
12.3
Pounce
- 2f More Than Ready (USA) x Passion Cheval (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: D Dunn 56
9
13.6
Opicina
- 2f All Too Hard (AUS) x Funicular (AUS) (Jade Robbery (USA))
Tnr: Matthew Cumani Rdr: Dean Holland 56
10
14.3
Longduan
- 2f Written Tycoon (AUS) x Strata Title (AUS) (Strategic (AUS))
Tnr: P F Ryan Rdr: Jordan Childs 56
11
16.3
Comparsa
- 2f Zebedee (GB) x Dancing Doll (AUS) (Danehill Dancer (IRE))
Tnr: Matthew Cumani Rdr: Fred W Kersley 56
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