STARSPANGLEDBANNER has had a dream start to his stud career and that was highlighted even further when his Gr2 Winning Son
THE WOW SIGNAL added the
Gr1 Prix Morny 1200m at Deauville on Sunday to provide his Australian-bred sire his first
Group 1 winner.
The Wow Signal winning the Gr1 Prix Morny 1200m at Deauville
The Wow Signal finished strongly to beat Hootenanny by a half-length on a heavy track and recorded his third win from as many career starts.
The Wow Signal raced midfield while Hootenanny and Ride Like the Wind set a torrid pace upfront before jockey
Frankie Dettori brought
The Wow Signal up on the outside to tackle the eventual runner-up over the final 200m.
The pair raced stride-for-stride before Dettori called on the
The Wow Signal for more and the colt delivered the winning surge.
The Wow Signal won by a half-length over
Hootenanny, (trained in the US by Wesley Ward) who held second, while the
Aga Khan's previously undefeated filly
Ervedya finished one length further back in third.
Al Shaqab's racing manager said to the Press Association:
"It was a really superb performance over a trip that is probably too short for him, especially with the American speed horse in the race,"
"It became a real slog, but he's such a tough horse he battled it out, and it's a terrific training performance by John Quinn.
"We'll look to move him up to seven furlongs now. We'll look at the
Dewhurst Stakes but I think it is probably more likely we'll aim at the big 2-year-old race at
Longchamp on Arc day, the
Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere."
Both The Wow Signal and Hootenanny were racing for the first time since they both won at Royal Ascot June 17. Hootenanny captured the Windsor Castle Stakes,
The Wow Signal winning the Gr2 Coventry Stakes
and
The Wow Signal took the G2 Coventry Stakes
The Wow Signal wins his Maiden on debut by 9 lengths
after winning his debut by
nine lengths in May at Ayr.
The Wow Signal was bred in Ireland when S
tarspangledbanner was in his first northern hemisphere season at stud.
Starspangledbanner, the multiple Gr1 winning son of Choisir will stand at
Rosemont Stud in Victoria for the 2014 season, having overcome fertility problems that threatened his stud career.
The Wow Factor is out of the unraced
High Chaparral mare.
He is now a leading contender for first season sire honours in the UK and Europe with
fourteen (14) starters: seven individual (7) winners of ten (10) race wins and four (4) individual placegetters including: a Gr1 & Gr2 Winner; a Gr2 Winner and Gr2 placegetter; a winner and LR placegetter.
His most recent winner was on Sunday when Rotherwick won at Beverley in the UK.