With loads of natural muscle, strength and a top pedigree on her side, this filly was a compelling buy for DGR’s Duncan Ramage. By the Group-winning Invincible Spirit stallion Ancient Spirit, she is from an impeccably related mare from one of New Zealand’s most distinguished nurseries.
Trained by Mark Walker, Cranbourne.
Purchased for $100,000 from White Robe Lodge’s NZB Karaka Yearling draft, this filly is from the first crop by international Group-winning Invincible Spirit stallion Ancient Spirit.
She is the third foal from a half-sister G1 ATC Metropolitan Handicap winner Patrick Erin, multiple stakes winner Gallant Boy and G3 ATC Queen’s Cup runner-up Beijing Boy.
She was admired by many on the complex, including Champion New Zealand & Singapore trainer Mark Walker, the cornerstone of the widely successful Te Akau Racing.
We were more than happy to accept Mark’s request to train her after we purchased her, and she will join their new permanent stable in Australia at the state-of-the-art facility at Cranbourne, Victoria.
Ownership opportunities are available to race her with DGR and Champion trainer Mark Walker. Get in touch with Duncan for more information.
An outstanding filly by leading New Zealand sire Per Incanto from Winter Sky (IRE), an Invincible Spirit half-sister to Transfers, the dam of Group 1 winner Tom Kitten and stakes winners Va Via and Promotions. This filly was bred and raised at one of New Zealand’s very best nurseries, Little Avondale, a stud famed for producing 41 individual Group 1 winners.
By leading 2yo sire Extreme Choice from the multiple Group winner Istanford (USA), this filly was raised at the top Golden Slipper-producing nursery of Newgate Farm and will get every opportunity of success under the guidance of Anthony Cummings, the trainer of her sire’s best daughter and DGR’s up-and-coming 2yo Group placegetter Extreme Diva.
In the make and shape of his leading sire, So You Think, this colt is from the 3yo stakes performer Valley Sweetheart. Hailing from a front-running family, he represented great buying very early on at Inglis Classic and is a type that is destined to follow in the footsteps of So You Think’s best progeny.
A beautifully bred filly by exciting freshman So You Think stallion Peltzer. Her Not a Single Doubt dam was unbeaten as a juvenile and is already doing an excellent job at stud, producing a stakes-winning 2yo in Lord Cosmos.
Duncan's Comments
“Sourced from the famous South Island stud White Robe Lodge, who in its history has stood some of New Zealand's Champion stallions in Mellay and Noble Bijou whose progeny grew at their Mosgiel property. This filly struck as a hard, tough animal with unusually high muscle tone and definition for one so young that you might expect made the progeny of those stallions so good.”