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Australian G1 winner All American added a new stakeswinner to his record when his US-bred filly America Mon Amie won the 26th running of the Listed Northbound Pride Oaks at Canterbury Park.

All American stood the 2011 season at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky and America Mon Amie is is among the first 14 runners from the resulting crop.

The 3YO filly, very much in the mould of her sire, had won her debut on turf at Kentucky Downs last September and returned in April for a fifth over a mile at Gulfstream.

She then scored a convincing win at the same distance at Arlington on May 15.

In Sunday's race over the turf mile, America Mon Amie settled on the rail behind the leaders, challenged around the turn and drove home strongly to win in the final strides by three quarters of a length.

America Mon Amie is raced by her breeder Captain Jack Racing Stable, in partnership with David Menard and her trainer Anthony J. Granitz.

The filly's dam Si Si Mon Amie, by Mr Greeley's G1-winning son El Corredor, won six times, including a Listed stakes race.

This is the family of champion US 2YO colt Silent Screen, and European G1 winners Mujahid, Saffron Walden and Dolphin Street - all descended from the 1949 Spinaway Stakes winner Sunday Evening.

All American, a record-breaking G1 winner of the Emirates Stakes at Flemington, has two crops of racing age in Australia. They include G3 juvenile winner Bachman, Group-placed Flemington winner Zebulon, stakes-placed filly Tender, city winners Eisenhower and Avonaco and 2YOs Ramla Bay and Green Card.