Crosshaven is SW19 for Smart Missile after winning the Exford Plate (1400m) at Flemington.
Crosshaven enjoyed a lovely run, just behind the speed to the home turn and challenging in the home straight to defeat Bartley (Written Tycoon) and the fast finishing Cherry Tortoni (Night Of Thunder). (pic: Racing Pictures/Natasha Morello)
It is the third win from four starts for Crosshaven which sold for $NZ80,000 as a New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Premier yearling when offered by Haunui Farm.
Crosshaven is a brother to New Zealand winner Way Above and a half-brother to Gr3 White Robe Lodge Stakes at Otago winner Killarney (O’Reilly) and two other winners.
Their dam Irish Colleen (Shinko King) won seven races including the Gr2 Concorde Stakes at Avondale.
Gr2 winner Smart Missile (Fastnet Rock) was the leading first-season sire in Australia for 2015-16 and now stands at Twin Hills Stud in New South Wales where he is advertised at $22,000 in 2020.