Champion Sire FASTNET ROCK on a daily basis is a
HEADLINE making stallion thanks to the wonderful deeds of his progeny around the globe.
In fact, as an industry we start to become desensitised to the constant good news stories that are generated about him.
However, recognition must be given to his deeds over the past few weeks, as the stories have been flooding the market about his progeny’s racetrack successes.
FASTNET ROCK
Last weekend was simply amazing for FASTNET ROCK - Australia’s Super Sire.
A quick reflection of 8 recent headlines:
* INTRICATELY IS GROUP 1 HEROINE FOR FANTASTIC FASTNET - September 11, 2016
* SUPERB ZHUKOVA DOUBLES UP FOR FASTNET - September 10, 2016
* WINNING RETURN FOR STAR KIWI FASTNET COLT - September 10, 2016
* RIVETTING G2 SUCCESS FOR FASTNET 2YO - September 10, 2016
* US STAKES-WINNER FOR FASTNET - September 10, 2016
* COX PLATE CONTENDER FOR FASTNET ROCK - September 3, 2016
* 7-LENGTH G3 WIN FOR FASTNET FILLY - August 28, 2016
* VICTORIA DERBY GOAL FOR FASTNET COLT - August 06, 2016
FASTNET ROCK now has sired:
97 Stakes Winners including 24 Group 1 Winners, 87 Stakes Placegetters, (15.3% Black-Type Earners : Runners)
812 Winners (67.4%)
UK Group One win for Fastnet Rock 2yo
INTRICATELY IS G1 HEROINE FOR FANTASTIC FASTNET - September 11, 2016
Intricately
An unforgettable European weekend for Fastnet Rock was capped off at the Curragh on Sunday when
Intricately (2f Fastnet Rock-Inner Realm, by Galileo) battled hard to take the Gr1 Moyglare Stud Stakes.
The Joseph O'Brien-trained filly was scored the day after
Zhukova (4f Fastnet Rock-Nightime, by Galileo) took the G3 Enterprise Stakes at Leopardstown and
Rivet (2c Fastnet Rock-Starship, by Galileo) won the G2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster for Fastnet Rock.
Intricately, like
Zhukova and Fastnet Rock's 2015 G1 Oaks heroine
Qualify, carries the colours of Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez. Intricately got up in the closing stages to beat Hydrangea (2f Galileo-Beauty Is Truth, by Pivotal). In third place was Rhododendron (2f Galileo-Halfway To Heaven, by Pivotal) to complete a Group 1 trifecta for Coolmore sires.
It was a first G1 success for both the winning trainer and his brother Donnacha, who was in the saddle.
"This means the world to me," said Joseph O'Brien. "It's Donnacha's first Group 1 and my mum bred her. She's very tough, and Donnacha was very strong on her.
"She's in the G1 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket, and we'll see how she comes out of this. She doesn't have to run again this season.
"I can't believe she was 25/1 as she was only a length behind the second favourite (Rhododendron) the last day. You probably get a bigger kick out of training winners than riding them as a lot more work goes into it."
Fastnet Rock Blueblood's Winning Streak Intact
WINNING RETURN FOR STAR KIWI FASTNET COLT - September 10, 2016
HEROIC VALOUR
Heroic Valour (Fastnet Rock) has taken up as a three-year-old where he left off last season with a tenacious performance to win on his Ruakaka return, the Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards-trained blueblood showing admirable fighting qualities to maintain his unbeaten record against a competitive line-up in the Tavistock Northland Breeders' Plate Listed Race over 1200m.
"He got a bit of a squeeze up on the point of the corner and he's not the sort of colt who is ever going to win by much, but he gives it his all and he's pretty good," co-trainer Richards said.
"He'll go to the Hawke's Bay Guineas next and then we'll make a plan about how we get to Christchurch.
"Last season's Group One Diamond Stakes winner is now the
$5 favourite for the Group One New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas at Riccarton after his resuming run, in which he found a good early spot before other runners circled him out wide.
Cameron got busy on the favourite once into the clear and
Heroic Valour finished determinedly to score by a head for the fourth consecutive win of his career.
"He did it the hard way and had to pick a path between them," Cameron said.
"Once I got stuck into him he hit the line well and got the job done nicely.”
European Stakes Double for Fastnet Rock
RIVETTING G2 SUCCESS FOR FASTNET 2YO at Doncaster- September 10, 2016
RIVET
Champion sire Fastnet Rock had a Group Winning double in Europe on Saturday with his 2yo colt
Rivet in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster and his 4yo mare
Zhukova winning the Group 3 Enterprise Stakes at Leopardstown.
The Champagne Stakes had a distinctive Australian flavour with Rivet defeating the Helmet colt Thunder Snow by a neck in what turned into a two-horse war.
Rivet was sent out the 7/4 favourite on the strength of his maiden win at York.
"He looks like he wants further to me, he was a bit laboured and took a long time to get past, but it was only his third run," his trainer said.
"He won and that's all that matters really. He's a lovely looking horse and a good mover.
"It looked like a mile would be well within his capabilities.
"He's in everything, we'll see. He'll definitely run again, but over a seven or a mile, I don't know."
"He's started to pull clear off a slow pace and his jockey said he'd get a mile but felt the ground might have been a bit loose for him.
"He's a good moving horse and his family love top of the ground.
"He's a beautiful mover, laid back and has a lovely temperament. I've always liked him and so do Ryan (Moore) and Frankie (Dettori) who have ridden him.
SUPERB ZHUKOVA DOUBLES UP FOR FASTNET at Leopardstown - September 10, 2016
Zhukova
Winner of all three starts this season, the Dermot Weld-trained
Zhukova downed the favoured US Army Ranger by a half-length with last year's Melbourne Cup contestant Bondi Beach back in third in the Enterprise Stakes over one and a half miles at Leopardstown.
"It was a good performance. It was her first run in four months," Weld told Sporting Life.
"The plan is to give her one more run this year. The plan has always been the Group One Fillies and Mares on British Champions Weekend. I've had that in mind for her since April.
"She put in two lovely performances in the Blue Wind and Alleged Stakes, beating Found and then Bocca Baciata.
"She enjoyed her summer break and has come back to be what I expected her to be - a Group One filly before the end of the year.
"It's equally pleasing to have bred her with my late mother. She's out of Nightime who gave my mother a great day when winning the (Irish) 1,000 Guineas.
"I'm more looking forward to next year and think she'll be a serious mare then. The best is yet to come."
US STAKES-WINNER FOR FASTNET - September 06, 2016
Champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock featured with a North American stakes-winner when Irish bred mare
Uchenna (5m Fastnet Rock x Uriah, by Acatenango) won the Belle Mahone Stakes at Woodbine.
A winner at Goodwood and Wolverhampton before transferring to North America,
Uchenna won the Grade III Ontario Matron stakes last year and added a new Black Type win to her resume with this latest success.
She took the 1 and 1/16th mile contest by a length and three quarters and has now won five of 21 starts.
“She’s so consistent and looking at the Racing Form, she has this one big kick,” said winning rider Patrick Husbands.
“She was loving it racing from behind. Five furlongs out she was enjoying it, and four furlongs out she wanted to be asked but I said, ‘Not yet, not yet.’
“At the top of the lane, I chirped at her and she just exploded. She has a serious turn of foot.”
One of now 95 stakes-winners for Fastnet Rock, Uchenna is a half-sister to Hong Kong Derby Trial winner King Dancer and is from German bred US Grade II winner Uriah.
COX PLATE CONTENDER FOR FASTNET ROCK - September 03, 2016
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AWESOME ROCK
The Group 2 MVRC Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday was won in scintillating style by talented entire
Awesome Rock (5h Fastnet Rock x Awesome Planet, by Giant’s Causeway).
Awesome Rock won the Group I VRC Australian Cup during the autumn, only to lose the race in the steward’s room following a successful protest, but judging by this performance a Group I win may well be soon coming his way.
Prepared by Leon Corstens,
Awesome Rock settled back in the field for Steve Baster and when shown clear running in the straight, produced an electric turn of foot to forge clear and win the 1600 metre weight-for-age contest by two lengths.
The win gives
Awesome Rock an automatic place in the Group I MVRC WS Cox Plate field and that was always the aim for the well-bred stallion.
“He’s got the ability there – we’ve aimed him at the Cox Plate all along but he needed to do something like that to convince us we could have a real crack at it,” Corstens said.
“It’s very satisfying to see the horse show what he’s got and I really think he’s got more improvement to come.
“He’s always had something of an x-factor about him, we’re so lucky the owners have been patient with him and given him the time to come into his own.
“He’s gone from being a boy into a man but we’ve got the golden ticket into the best weight-for-age race in the world so we’re going to make good use of it.”
Stephen Baster was full of praise for Awesome Rock. “That was the best he’s felt under me today – he towed me into it,” Baster said.
“He was travelling that well, that’s what good horses do but he just pushed himself into it and was having a bit of a stargaze in the straight.”
He has an overall record of three wins and seven placings from 21 starts with prizemoney nearing $700,000.
VICTORIA DERBY GOAL FOR FASTNET COLT - August 06, 2016
Mongolian Falcon
Expectations around
Mongolian Falcon (3c Fastnet Rock x Amazing Beauty, by Galileo) were sky high at Ruakaka in New Zealand and the classy colt didn’t let anybody down.
He made his three-year-old debut with an easy length and a half win over 1000 metres, delivering victory in the style and setting up an ambitious spring plans.
“We’ve got a huge opinion of him,” co-trainer Chris Gibbs said. “He’ll definitely be nominated for the VRC Derby and if we take that path then he won’t be hanging around in New Zealand for too long.”
A $150,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Coolmore draft for Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry, Mongolian Falcon was a trial winner before he finished third on debut last season and second-up he beat the subsequent Group 2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes winner Gold Rush.
The son of Fastnet Rock and the Group performed Galileo mare Amazing Beauty then ran a close second in the Reid & Harrison Slipper Listed Race before he was put aside after he suffered an interrupted run when unplaced in the Group I Diamond Stakes.
“He spelled well and he’s in beautiful order,” Gibbs said. “He’s still learning, but he did everything right today.”
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