Saturday’s Gr2 Sandown Guineas winner Blue Army is SW121 for Savabeel and his 23rd bred out of an O’Reilly mare.
Blue Army turned for home in third place then finished determinedly to wear Blazerro (Pierro) down inside the final 100m to score at just his third start for trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr.
Inbred 4×3 to Semipalatinsk, the three-year-old was bred by Robert Anderson, sold as a yearling at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale and is raced by Singapore-based owner Chua Song Ru of Aramco Racing.
Blue Army is one of three winners out of Keyarna Blue (O’Reilly), winner of the Listed Laelia Stakes at Morphettville while the granddam Oh Blue Angel (Semipalatinsk) won the Listed Great Western Handicap at Flemington.
This is the immediate family of Melbourne Gr2 winner Angelic Light (Holy Roman Emperor) and further back Blue Army traces to Morphettville Plate winner Tena Kora (Woorak).
Savabeel has 156 runners out of mares by his former Waikato Stud barnmate O’Reilly (Last Tycoon) for 118 winners and 23 stakes winners, headed by seven Gr1 winners viz., Costume, Embellish, Diademe, Amarelinha, Mo’Unga, Savaria and this year’s New Zealand 1000 Guineas winner The Perfect Pink.