Beautifully bred
2yo filly Shoals continued what's been
a great season with his two year-olds for champion sire Fastnet Rock when remaining unbeaten to take out the
Group 3 VRC TBV Thoroughbred Club Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.
The Lee and Anthony Freedman trained
Shoals stepped straight up to Group company and showed her class when surging to the line to win the 1200 metre sprint by half a length.
Winning rider Mark Zahra gave the understatement of all quotes,
"She goes pretty good," he said.
"It was a strong race and she knuckled down well.
"She'll go on to better things."
Shoals is likely to head to Sydney for The Championships.
"She's a very nice filly, beautifully bred and raced by John Messara and Jonathan Munz," Lee Freedman said.
"John Messara is keen for her to come up to Sydney to run in the Percy Sykes Stakes, so we'll probably do that."
Shoals was retained to race by her breeders Arrowfield stud and Jonathan Munz and is the first foal of The Broken Shore, who was bought by Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock for $1.9 million at the Magic Millions Teeley Assets Dispersal in 2014.
The Broken Shore is a city winner by Hussonet (USA), and half-sister to Group 1 winners Redoute's Choice, Manhattan Rain and Platinum Scissors as well as Group 3 winner Sliding Cube and stakes-winner Echoes of Heaven.
FASTNET ROCK - Sire
Shoals is the 110th stakes-winner for Fastnet Rock and is his third juvenile stakes-winner this season joining Catchy and Formality.
Dynamic Syndications at the NZ Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sales purchased a super FASTNET ROCK colt ex Stakes Placed TEMPLE OF PEACE which makes our colt the ½ brother to Champion 3yo WHOBEGOTYOU.
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