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More Success For Dijon Bleu Team

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The New Zealand Bloodstock Select Sale at Karaka is where it all began for this season’s NZ Filly of the Year Dijon Bleu and the same connections struck black type gold for a second time when Secret Allure won Saturday’s Listed Champagne Stakes at Riccarton.

Djion Bleu, who cost just $26,000 at the 2016 Select Sale, won six of her 11 starts and more than $306,000 in stakes for trainer and part-owner Lisa Latta and her co-owners Kevin Dixon, Peter Finlayson, Debra Masters, Milton Passey, Andrew Rennie and Trevor Tomlins.

Her racing career is now over, but it has only just begun for Zacinto filly Secret Allure, their $36,000 purchase from the 2017 sale.

Having her fourth start, the filly came from midfield to beat fellow Karaka graduate Peaceful (Savabeel) for the second win of her career earning $50,375 in prize-money.

Secret Allure
Secret Allure Picture: Race Images PN

Secret Allure (Zacinto x Secret Scent by O’Reilly) is the fifth stakes winner by her sire Zacinto, a son of Dansili standing at Inglewood Stud.

She has continued her family’s affinity with Riccarton as her dam Secret Scent’s sister Ombre Rose was a multiple stakes winner on the South Island’s premier track.

New Zealand’s champion stallion Savabeel sired his 74th stakes winner when his talented juvenile filly Santa Catarina maintained her unbeaten record with a victory in the Listed Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre Stakes at Te Rapa.

The Stephen Marsh-trained Santa Catarina (Savabeel x Discreet Evening by Discreet Cat) won her first start at Matamata on April 18.

Santa Catarina was unable to reach her $80,000 reserve as a yearling at Karaka when offered by Lib Petagna’s JML Bloodstock through the Blandford Lodge draft at the 2017 NZB Premier Sale at Karaka.

When the filly went unsold she was retained by Petagna to race in his familiar apple green, blue and yellow colours, which have been worn to G1 victories by the likes of Karaka graduates Lucia Valentina (Savabeel) and Sofia Rosa (Makfi).

Santa Catarina has now had three starts for two wins, a second placing and $39,500 in prize-money.

Falkirk mare Fascinate won the Listed Great Easter Stakes at Riccarton to provide her sire with his 11th stakes winner.

Fascinate (Falkiurk x Zerperfluous by Zerpour) has now won 10 of her 39 starts.


Racing and Sports

Riccarton Park

Saturday, 05th May 2018

5
13:51
(local)

Champagne Stakes (LR)

WT: 54.5kg Type: OPEN
NZD $50,000
1200m TURF HEAVY
5
13:51
(local)
NZD $50,000
1200m HEAVY

Champagne Stakes (LR)

WT: 54.5kg Type: OPEN

The track at Riccarton today was an awful sludginess slow and the rail was out 4m to cause more manmade bias and bettor bewilderment. This Listed 1200 for the juveniles unsurprising saw two North Island prepared fillies quinella the event and the pair were incredibly dominant on the rest at the line. Secret Allure raced seventh but not far away at all behind the leading wall and then came through fourth turning for home and surged into the lead at the 250m. The filly was clear at the 100m and won by over a length and a quarter and ran 1:11.78, which was a good time on the day using the older horses as a guide. It was her second win in four starts and first at blacktype and the filly clearly likes wet or rain-affected footing. Peaceful was wide near the pace and strode up to lead turning for home before being passed at the 250m but she tried hard to go with the eventual winner. It was a brave second and she too relished the wet footing plus she will not be a maiden for very long if kept in work. Pick Me Up In Rio was fifth and very wide near the pace and the filly went up into second turning for home before being third at the 250m and then ending up distant at the line. She was almost six lengths from the winner but a commendable third indeed and maidens will not hold the filly for very long either. Miss Curious was a massive fourth after being well back and wide then steaming home late to be beaten just over six and a half lengths. She clearly handled the tricky footing and is another winner in waiting. Thunder Bay ran an honest fifth while Hapi Ella in was sixth and very deep on settling so did well not to drop out after such an overlander. Khimar Way raced on the pace and weakened out disappointingly to be beaten over eight lengths. Sweet Oak plugged on from back and wide but was beaten over ten lengths. The rest came home beaten eleven lengths and up to over thirty-five lengths. Interestingly the fourth last and second last finishers namely Devious and Xpressmymind were involved at their prior start in a ridiculous speed dual and blatant attack. Devious savaged Xpressmymind in the lead and the pair went well clear in a 1000m race they were going that fast and both punctured badly, Today was clear proof both have been cooked by that absurd drag racing episode and it is hoped both babies are not soured by such behavior as it can scar younger horses as racehorses such a painful lung-burning incident. Secret Allure and Peaceful have upside and especially on cutting out footing.



FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 4. SECRET ALLURE (NZ) 2yo F
ZACINTO (GB) - SECRET SCENT (NZ)
R J MYERS
LISA LATTA
$4.25
54.5kg
A J Rennie, T D Tomlins, P Finlayson, K T J Dixon, M Passey, D A Masters & L M Latta

Sales Information

2nd 8. PEACEFUL (NZ) 2yo F
SAVABEEL (AUS) - PALOMA (NZ)
LISA ALLPRESS
MURRAY BAKER & ANDREW FORSMAN
$3.25
54.5kg
L Petagna, G Clarke & P W O'Rourke

Sales Information

3rd 10. PICK ME UP IN RIO (NZ) 2yo F
CAPTAIN RIO (GB) - PICK ME UP (NZ)
KYLIE WILLIAMS
KEVIN JAMES
$67
54.5kg
K M James
4th 9. MISS CURIOUS (NZ) 2yo F
NOM DU JEU (NZ) - JUST CURIOUS (NZ)
ROBERT HANNAM
DANNY FRYE
$51
54.5kg
5th 7. THUNDER BAY (NZ) 2yo F
NIAGARA (AUS) - BOOMCHUCKALUCKA (NZ)
SAM WEATHERLEY
MICHAEL & MATTHEW PITMAN
$11
54.5kg
6th 6. HAPI ELLA (NZ) 2yo F
COATS CHOICE (AUS) - ELLE'S AURA (NZ)
LEE CALLAWAY
KEN, LISA RAE & KRYSTAL WILLIAMS
$41
54.5kg

Sales Information

7th 1. KHIMAR WAR (NZ) 2yo G
SWEET ORANGE (USA) - FLAME OF ATLANTA (NZ)
J R LOWRY
LANCE ROBINSON
$4.25
56.5kg

Sales Information

8th 14. SWEET OAK (NZ) 2yo F
SWEET ORANGE (USA) - GEORGIA OAK (NZ)
KRISHNA MUDHOO
AMANDA HIGGINS
$151
54.5kg
9th 3. FINAL SAVINGS (NZ) 2yo G
SAVABEEL (AUS) - FINAL TOUCH (NZ)
CHRIS JOHNSON
J F PARSONS
$26
56.5kg
10th 11. NORMA JEAN (NZ) 2yo F
COATS CHOICE (AUS) - NADIA JEAN (AUS)
SAMANTHA WYNNE
LANCE ROBINSON
$26
54.5kg
11th 12. IWONDERWAI (NZ) 2yo F
ALAMOSA (NZ) - WAIMARIE LASS (NZ)
JILLIAN MORRIS
ALAN BROWNE
$151
54.5kg

Sales Information

12th 2. DEVIOUS (NZ) 2yo G
PER INCANTO (USA) - ANGEL DEL DINERO (NZ)
TERRY MOSELEY
SHANE KENNEDY & ANNA FURLONG
$41
56.5kg

Sales Information

13th 15. THE SELECTION (NZ) 2yo F
PINS (AUS) - THE CHOICE (NZ)
TINA COMIGNAGHI
DENNIS BROS & ROBERT DENNIS
$51
54.5kg

Sales Information

14th 5. XPRESSMYMIND (NZ) 2yo F
SHAMEXPRESS (NZ) - MY AMNESIA (AUS)
R CUNEEN
ANDREW CARSTON
$9
54.5kg

Sales Information

15th 13. MONTREUX MISS (NZ) 2yo F
SWISS ACE (AUS) - SATANYA (NZ)
MASA TANAKA
ALAN BROWNE
$151
54.5kg

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