Alamosa, Reward For Effort, Siyouni, Sea The Stars, Free Eagle and Harbour Watch add new stakes winners
19 for Alamosa
Alamosa (O’Reilly) notched up stakes winner number 19 on Saturday when Second Slip (5 g ex Scarlet O’Hara by Fast ‘N’ Famous) won the Macdonald Stakes (Listed, 1400m) at Morphettville. Having begun his career in New Zealand, the Will Clarken-trained gelding took his record to seven wins and four placings in 19 career starts. The Wellfield Lodge sire has produced Group One winners On The Rocks, Stolen Dance and Kirramosa and three further Group winners. His fee is advertised as On Application.
Eight for Reward For Effort
No Effort (7 m ex Hold The Lion by Lion Cavern) provided his sire, the Chatswood Stud-based Reward For Effort (Exceed And Excel), with his eighth stakes winner on Saturday when winning the Heatherly Stakes (Listed, 1700m) at Caulfield. Trained by Gavin Bedggood, No effort was having the 44th start of her career and she has now won ten times and placed in another 12 starts.
52 for Siyouni
The Qatar Racing-owned Mise En Scene (2 f ex Gadfly by Galileo) remained unbeaten in two career starts and became the 52nd stakes winner for Siyouni (Pivotal) when she won the Prestige Stakes (Gr 3, 7f) at Goodwood on Saturday. The filly got up in the shadow of the post to defeat favourite Daneh (Dubawi) by a neck. The son of Pivotal (Polar Falcon) has an impressive strike rate in Australia siring five winners from eight runners and two of those winning at stakes level.
82 for Sea The Stars
Fellow Aga Khan Stud sire Sea The Stars (Cape Cross) recorded his 82nd stakes winner on Saturday when the Roger Varian-trained Teona (3 f ex Ambivalent by Authorized) scored a decisive three and a half length victory in the August Stakes (Listed, 1m3.5f). Sea The Stars has sired 14 Group One winners including seven-time Group One winner Stradivarius while his stakes winners in Australia include Fifty Stars and Shraaoh.
Three for Free Eagle
Dancing King (3 g ex Agnetha by Big Shuffle) won Saturday’s March Stakes (Gr 3, 1m6f) at Goodwood and in doing so became stakes winner number three for Free Eagle (High Chaparral). Trained by Mark Johnston, the gelding beat the Roger Varian-trained favourite, Nagano (Fastnet Rock), by a head. Dancing King is the first Group winner for Free Eagle who is also the sire of Group One placed colt Khalifa Sat and Justifier, who now races in Hong Kong as Beauty Smile.
11 for Harbour Watch
Tis Marvellous (7 g ex Mythicism by Oasis Dream) recorded his first victory at stakes level on Saturday in the Beverley Bullet Sprint Stakes (Listed, 5f) at Beverley and handed his sire, Harbour Watch (Acclamation), his 11th stakes winner. The formerly Tweenhills Stud-based Harbour Watch was retired from covering duties in 2017 and his stakes winners include Group One winners Waikuki and Pyledriver.
