Heading into the sale I was determin
ed to find a potential staying filly capable of winning an Oaks or Derby and am pleased to say I was able to buy the horse I wanted.This filly is from the last crop of local sire Dr Johnson who from 5 crops of raced horses has thrown 10 stakeswinners including Dr John, Westerly Breeze, Mafeking and Loml. His stake winners to runners ratio of over 5% is very good.
She is, like a lot of Dr Johnson’s, on the small side but is well built, proportional and should mature into a nice racehorse. I used the services of Ascot Bloodstock and trainer Brett Pope in selecting this horse. There comments were as follows –
“She is a nice filly with no obvious faults. She was the best yearling that we inspected at Namerik thoroughbreds.
Dr Johnson didn’t have the best selection of broodmares to service in his career and as such a lot of the produce are ordinary however this filly looks amongst the best. She is a nice type who would make an excellent racing prospect with residual value as a broodmare later.”Dr Johnson won 4 races in just a short 9 race career in Ireland all of them over 2000m or more and a 2nd place in the Group 1 Irish Derby 2400m. His bloodlines carry a strong stamina influence which was extremely evident with Westerly Breeze and Dr Bella filling minor positions in the 2008 Perth Cup. Dr Johnson does not throw many 2yo runners and looking at this filly it is not expected she will race as a 2yo, we are hoping however she will develop strongly later in her career especially when getting out to a middle distance or further.
ed to find a potential staying filly capable of winning an Oaks or Derby and am pleased to say I was able to buy the horse I wanted.This filly is from the last crop of local sire Dr Johnson who from 5 crops of raced horses has thrown 10 stakeswinners including Dr John, Westerly Breeze, Mafeking and Loml. His stake winners to runners ratio of over 5% is very good.She is, like a lot of Dr Johnson’s, on the small side but is well built, proportional and should mature into a nice racehorse. I used the services of Ascot Bloodstock and trainer Brett Pope in selecting this horse. There comments were as follows –
“She is a nice filly with no obvious faults. She was the best yearling that we inspected at Namerik thoroughbreds.
Dr Johnson didn’t have the best selection of broodmares to service in his career and as such a lot of the produce are ordinary however this filly looks amongst the best. She is a nice type who would make an excellent racing prospect with residual value as a broodmare later.”Dr Johnson won 4 races in just a short 9 race career in Ireland all of them over 2000m or more and a 2nd place in the Group 1 Irish Derby 2400m. His bloodlines carry a strong stamina influence which was extremely evident with Westerly Breeze and Dr Bella filling minor positions in the 2008 Perth Cup. Dr Johnson does not throw many 2yo runners and looking at this filly it is not expected she will race as a 2yo, we are hoping however she will develop strongly later in her career especially when getting out to a middle distance or further.
Her dam line compliments this stamina influence with a nice injection of speed which can be seen in the detailed pedigree report compiled by Pedigree analyst Kat Webster who works for Ascot Bloodstock at the end of this document.
I have had her X-ray checked and also scoped to ensure we are buying a sound horse.
I have selected Brett Pope to train her. Brett is based at Pinjarra with a small team of around 20 horses which is rapidly expanding. Recent city winner Solidwickedcruel is his best horse. Brett is a young guy with plenty of ambition who has been involved with horses all his life despite having only had a trainer’s license since 2007. Brett helped pick out this filly and has shown a commitment to this horse in taking a 10% share for himself. He does all his own breaking in and track work and gives each horse personlised care which is one of the main reasons I picked him as the trainer. He is also very straight forward with his owners and a good communicator.
This filly is also Westspeed eligible and will be paid up for meaning she will race for bonuses from $1,500 up to $15,000 per win. This bonus prize money applies to the winner of any 2yo and 3yo races over $6,000 stake money (excluding group and listed) plus 3yo’s in All Aged Maiden events. The Westspeed Stayer’s Incentive also applies to any 3yo and 4yo winners of any TAB covered event over 1800m or more. Basically this scheme means that should she win a Saturday class race under any of the above conditions it will be worth $47,500 in prize money, ($32,500 + $15,000 bonus).
The filly will racing in the Perth Turf Talk racing colors of predominately orange and black (see photo). Once I have sold all the shares I will get everyone to submit two names each and we can have a vote to name her. She has already been floated down to her agistment paddock in Dardanup.
Aaron Delaporte
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