Mount Pleasant is the first stakes winner for Golden Slipper Stakes winner Vancouver after winning the Gr2 SA Nursery (1200m) at Turffontein. The Mike de Kock-trained two-year-old finished best of all to defeat stablemate and also Australian-bred Najem Suhail (Starspangledbanner) by one length with Nourbese (Futura) a further 3-1/4 lengths away third. Bred by Makybe
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The victory of Missybeel in the Gr 3 Epona Stakes at Rosehill makes her the 99th stakes winner for Savabeel. Bred on the same O’Reilly (Last Tycoon) cross as Gr1 winners Costume, Diademe, Embellish and Savaria, Missybeel was winning for the sixth time. Missybeel sold for A$210,000 at the Inglis Australian Easter yearling sale and
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A $725,000 Snitzel colt topped the just completed Melbourne Premier yearling sale at Oaklands Junction. The three-quarter brother to Group 3 winner Jukebox (Snitzel) was consigned by Blue Gum Farm on behalf of breeders Neville and Susan Duncan and is the third-highest yearling sold at auction in Victoria. Aquis Farm signed for the September 9
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