Avonallo is SW5 for Belardo winning Saturday’s Welcome Stakes (1000m) for 2yos at Riccarton.
Avonallo drew alongside Follow Your Dreams 200m out and then gradually asserted his authority to defeat Follow Your Dreams (Contributer) by two lengths with Global Beauty (Highly Recommended) running on for third.
A $30,000 New Zealand Bloodtock Premier yearling from the draft of Little Avondale Stud, Avonallo has raced three times for a win and two placings.
He is a half-brother to this season’s New Zealand sprint winner Angelica (Per Incanto), their dam Real Angel (O’Reilly, an unraced half-sister to dual Listed winner and Gr2 placed Marquardt (Shamardal).
The granddam Centrefold Angel (Centaine) is a half-sister to Ballarat Cup winner McGuane (Mr McGinty).
Champion European 2yo of 2014 Belardo (Lope de Vega), shuttles between Kildangan Stud in Ireland and Haunui Farm in New Zealand. Avonallo is his first southern hemisphere conceived stakes winner.