NORTHERN METEOR is giving his rivals something to chase in the first season sire market as he saluted with another winner late last week. Promising filly MOUNT ZERO dominated her rivals to win as a short priced favourite at Mooney Valley on Friday night.
This lovely filly who was having just her 4th start on Friday after previously running into some classy two year olds including THERMAL CURRENT, MIRACLES OF LIFE and SAFEGUARD put paid to her rival winning by 1 ¾ lengths. She hadn’t run outside of the top four in her first three starts including a last start 4th at LR level and found the perfect race on Friday to make every post a winner. Her superior fitness and race experience stood her in good stead for the $35,000 event which she dominated from start to finish.
She began brilliantly from barrier one for Nick Hall and led throughout before kicking clear to win the 1000 metre dash in fine style. It is believed that MOUNT ZERO will now look at the Listed Festival of Racing Stakes for 2yos over 1000m at Flemington on March 2 to try and post NORTHERN METEOR’S first black type win.
Northern Meteor is a Dynamic Sire
NORTHERN METEOR’S progeny have hit the ground running this year with SWING VOTE, MOUNT ZERO and NORTHERN GLORY all finishing prominently at stakes level to date. Of the 196 nominations that remain for the Golden Slipper, NORTHERN METEOR has 12 nominations remaining with leading sire More Than Ready (16), Fastnet Rock (16) and Exceed and Excel (15) the only sires with more. Of NORTHERN METEOR’S 12 nominations, one of them is currently being syndicated by DYNAMIC SYNDICATIONS.
Our 2yo NORTHERN METEOR – VILLA VALENCIA colt that is now 75% sold is still eligible for the Golden Slipper and he is due to arrive in the racing stables of Chris Waller from the pre-trainers within the next few days. He has been in training since 16 January. He proved to us that he has plenty of ability when he breezed up at the New Zealand Ready to Run sale in a time of 10.63 late last year. This was substantially better than the average of 10.85 and he went to the line untested as can be seen below.
Horses like our colt that are by NORTHERN METEOR will only improve with racing as they grow and mature throughout their 3yo campaign. NORTHERN METEOR was not seen until his 3yo career and he proved to the world just how good he was during that time.
In the spring as a 3yo, NORTHERN METEOR burnt the turf setting a new track record breaking his maiden at Canterbury before heading to Randwick for his next start where he stopped the clock in a track record time of 1:08.32 winning the City Tatts Sir Brian Crowley Stakes (LR) by five lengths. His trainer took him to Melbourne for his next run when blitzing the opposition in the VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes Gr1 1200m at Flemington, ensuring the title of the best three year-old sprinting colt in Australasia.
We will be aiming our colt at the Gr2 PAGO PAGO Stakes first up, then be looking at all of our options before the Gr1 GOLDEN SLIPPER.
Our Northern Meteor - Villa Valencia colt in NZ
There are plenty of possibilities to look at for 2yos during the Brisbane Winter Carnival as he is already showing us sign that he is capable of competing at that level.
NORTHERN METEOR is proving what Dynamic believed was always going to happen, that he will be the real deal as a sire and can only get better as his progeny grow and mature. We are excited about the prospects of this colt going forward and we hope to see him on the track soon winning the big races for Dynamic and our clients. For more information on this colt, please contact Dynamic Syndications on (02) 9587 1511 or visit his link on the website by CLICKING HERE
Jay Mathieson