De La Terre is SW14 for Reliable Man winning the Gr3 Soliloquy Stakes (1400m) for 3yo fillies at Te Rapa.
Ridden to lead shortly after the start De La Terre set a steady speed and was clear around the home turn. She was tiring late but had done enough to hold off Kahma Lass (Darci Brahma) to score by a nose with Tokorangi (Redwood) running on well for third.
It is the fourth win for De La Terre, a $55,000 NZB Karaka Book1 yearling purchase who will now head to the New Zealand 1000 Guineas on November 14.
She is a sister to Gr1 Diamond Stakes runner-up at Ellerslie Aalalune and a half-sister to Singapore Listed-placed Black Thorn (Redwood) and Australian winner The Stylist (Swiss Ace).
The granddam Barawin (Barathea) won the Listed Dommben Slipper Stakes in Brisbane and runner-up in the Gr1 T J Smith Classic at Eagle Farm.
Inbred 3×4 to Sadler’s Wells, De La Terre is out of Veva Girl, by Fastnet Rock (Danehill) and Reliable Man has cross as Gr1 VRC Oaks winner Miami Bound on a similar Danehill cross.
Classic winner Reliable Man (Dalakhani) shuttles between Westbury Stud in New Zealand and now to Gestut Rottgen in Germany.