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Redoute's Back On Top Of Sires Premiership

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The world's top-ranked sprinter Lankan Rupee carried his sire Redoute's Çhoice to the top of the Australian General Sires’ premiership at Randwick on Saturday with his superb performance in the $2.5 million TJ Smith Stakes.

Lankan Rupee
Lankan Rupee Picture: Racing and Sports

Other progeny by Redoute’s Choice backed up Lankan Rupee with other notable Group performances on Saturday to take the champion sire’s prizemoney tally for the season to over $8.7 million.

He has overtaken his son Snitzel ($8.2 million) to end his six months reign at the head of the premiership table.

Lankan Rupee (Redoute’s Choice x Estelle Collection by Stravinsky) is now a firm favourite to be named Australian Horse of the Year honours after landing his third successive Group One sprint at his first start in Sydney.

The brilliant four-year-old has won six races in succession since being gelded including the G1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield and the G1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington for a career tally of nine wins from 16 starts and prizemoney of $2.85 million for owner-breeder Muzaffar Yaseen's Teeley Assets.

He also added to the great success Redoute's Choice has enjoyed in the TJ Smith Stakes, being his third winner in five years after Melito (2010) and Master Of Design (2012).

In Adelaide Redoute’s Choice sired his 112th stakeswinner when another Teeley Assets owned and bred runner Tango's Daughter ( Redoute’s Choice x Tango Fire by Anabaa) won the Listed H.C. Nitschke Stakes.

Tango's Daughter and Lankan Rupee were both foaled and reared at Arrowfield Stud, which will present the Teeley Dispersal of breeding stock at next month’s Magic Millions National Sale at the Gold Coast.

The dispersal will include Lankan Rupee’s dam Estelle Collection in foal to Redoute's Choice.

Teeley Assets who raced both Redoute’s Choice and Estelle Collection, a G3 winner from the family of G1 champions and sires Grosvenor (Sir Tristram) and Lonhro (Octagonal).

She went back to Redoute’s Choice last spring after foaling a filly by his half-brother Manhattan Rain (Encosta De Lago).

Redoute's Choice's also enjoyed G1 success as a broodmare sire at Randwick on Saturday as he is sire of Iguazu’s Girl, dam of the $3 million Doncaster Mile winner Sacred Falls (O’Reilly).

By winning his second successive Doncaster in Sacred Falls took his earnings to $3,640,715 from eight wins in 18 starts.

A $NZ160,000 purchase at the 2011 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale by Guy Mulcaster Bloodstock, Sacred Falls is one of 73 stakes winners and 12 G1 winners by O’Reilly, who is set to win the NZ sires’ premiership this season..

Sacred Falls carries duplications of the excellent mares Natalma (Native Dancer) and Best In Show (Traffic Judge), and is a three quarter brother to the G3 winner Splashing Out (O’Reilly).

His dam Iguazu’s Girl is from the dual Group winner Iguazu (Carolingian).


Racing and Sports

Randwick

Saturday, 12th April 2014

7
15:50
(local)

T J Smith Stakes (G1)

Age: 3yo and up Type: OPEN
AUD $2,569,750
1200m TURF HEAVY
7
15:50
(local)
AUD $2,569,750
1200m HEAVY

T J Smith Stakes (G1)

Age: 3yo and up Type: OPEN

Lankan Rupee has now won his last six races in a row – the latest three at Group One level. He began brilliantly from his inside barrier (1) and went immediately to the lead. He travelled well at a strong tempo (first 600m 34.94), went wide (looking for better going) nearing the home turn and was never threatened in the straight to score impressively by two lengths. He had not previously raced on Slow or Heavy going but handled yesterday’s Heavy9 well - he is a class act. Rebel Dane was steadied by Glen Boss and travelled nicely in ninth spot on the rails. He stuck to the inside rounding the home turn, got to third at the 100m and fought gamely for a good second. Buffering was a little slow to move from his inside barrier (2) but quickly recovered to race in second place to the turn. He held that position to the 100m and kept fighting on gamely in the conditions to just miss second in a photo. Tiger Tees was fifth on the inside to the home turn and kept battling on to take a sound three and a half lengths fourth. See The World was well back in 11th place (wide-out) coming to the 600m. He put in a good run from the 300m, coming home nicely, with a late run to take fifth. Gordon Lord Byron was just past midfield, between runners, to the home turn. He took a little while to wind-up in the straight but kept making ground for sixth, beaten three and three quarter lengths. *ANZ

FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 3. LANKAN RUPEE (AUS) 4yo G
REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) - ESTELLE COLLECTION (NZ)
CRAIG NEWITT
MICK PRICE
$3.75
58.5kg
Teeley Assets Ltd Syndicate (Mgr: I O'Farrell)
2nd 5. REBEL DANE (AUS) 4yo H
CALIFORNIA DANE (AUS) - TEXARCANA (AUS)
GLEN BOSS
GARY PORTELLI
$9
58.5kg
Laurel Oak Bloodstock Pty Ltd (Mgr: L Mihalyka), J Murphy, P Kite, M Powell, Grant Bloodstock Pty Ltd (Mgr: S Grant), Carpe Diem (Mgr: K Lowe), S Lindley, R Spee, A Fitzgerald, Pardon (Mgr: K Sheppard), Simpson-Morgan, T Gleeson, N Parbery, G Zivkovic & Rdfit Pty Ltd (Mgr: S Cook)

Sales Information

3rd 1. BUFFERING (AUS) 6yo G
MOSSMAN (AUS) - ACTION ANNIE (AUS)
DAMIAN BROWNE
ROBERT HEATHCOTE
$10
58.5kg
Mrs V Heathcote, S Krslovic, C Moore, R Ciobo, D Merola, C Lord, Crafty Racing Synd, Aspariamo Racing Synd & B Harry
4th 6. TIGER TEES (NZ) 6yo G
DUBAWI (IRE) - PARFORE (NZ)
NASH RAWILLER
JOSEPH PRIDE
$21
58.5kg
5th 13. SEE THE WORLD (AUS) 7yo G
DANZERO (AUS) - GLOBAL DANCE (AUS)
CHRISTIAN REITH
JOSEPH PRIDE
$61
58.5kg
6th 2. GORDON LORD BYRON (IRE) 6yo G
BYRON (GB) - BOA ESTRELA (IRE)
CRAIG WILLIAMS
TOM HOGAN
$5.5
58.5kg

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7th 8. SHAMEXPRESS (NZ) 4yo H
O'REILLY (NZ) - VOLKROSE (NZ)
DAMIEN OLIVER
DANNY O'BRIEN
$26
58.5kg

Sales Information

8th 18. VILLA VERDE (AUS) 3yo F
NOT A SINGLE DOUBT (AUS) - YOUNG AND FREE (AUS)
JAMES MCDONALD
ANTHONY CUMMINGS
$10
54.5kg

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9th 17. SWEET IDEA (AUS) 3yo F
SNITZEL (AUS) - FLIDAIS (AUS)
TOMMY BERRY
MS GAI WATERHOUSE
$8.5
54.5kg

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10th 11. SESSIONS (AUS) 4yo H
LONHRO (AUS) - SEANCES (AUS)
KERRIN MCEVOY
PETER SNOWDEN
$26
58.5kg
11th 10. FAMOUS SEAMUS (NZ) 5yo G
ELUSIVE CITY (USA) - CLINIQUE (NZ)
TIM CLARK
NOEL MAYFIELD-SMITH
$41
58.5kg

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12th 14. SNITZERLAND (AUS) 4yo M
SNITZEL (AUS) - MONTE ROSA (AUS)
BRENTON AVDULLA
GERALD RYAN
$16
56.5kg

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13th 15. STEPS IN TIME (AUS) 6yo M
DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) - RARE INSIGHT (NZ)
BLAKE SHINN
JOSEPH PRIDE
$21
56.5kg
14th 7. BEL SPRINTER (AUS) 6yo G
BEL ESPRIT (AUS) - GAVROCHE (AUS)
CHAD SCHOFIELD
JASON WARREN
$51
58.5kg
15th 12. AERONAUTICAL (AUS) 5yo G
ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - MOON FEVER (AUS)
JOHN KISSICK
LIONEL COHEN
$101
58.5kg

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