Miss Wilson Makes It SIx For Stratum

Stratum, the late son of Redoute’s Choice, sired his sixth individual Group One winner when Kiwi mare Miss Wilson won the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes at Te Aroha on Saturday.

The 5YO mare Miss Wilson (Stratum x Cierzo by Centaine) is trained by John Bary who also prepared her half-brother Jimmy Choux, a multiple G1 winner and former New Zealand Horse of the Year.

Golden Slipper winner Stratum stood at Widden Stud until his death in 2016.

Miss Wilson was bred and raced by Richard and Liz Wood, who have been big supporters of the Bary stable.

Miss Wilson, fourth in this race last year, won by half a length from the G1 winner Thee Auld Floozie (Mastercraftsman), who also finished runner-up in the 2017 edition of the event behind Charmont.

Miss Wilson has now won seven races and placed in seven of her 25 career starts, amassing prize money earnings in excess of $NZ325,000.

She is one of nine named foals out of the Centaine mare Cierzo, a daughter of the stakes winner Gale (Wild Rampage), who produced four winners from six foals to race and is a half-sister to G2 winner and G1 placegetter Danamite (Danasinga).

Coolmore will offer a Fastnet Rock half-sister to Miss Wilson from Cierzo at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale this week.

• Quality Kiwi stayer Sir Charles Road made a triumphant Australian debut in Saturday’s G2 Chairman’s Quality at Randwick.

A multiple G3 winner in New Zealand, the four-year-old was sent across the Tasman by his trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott with next weekend’s G1 Sydney Cup in mind.

The son Myboycharlie from Giant Mystique, who cost $90,000 at the 2015 NZB Karaka Premier Sale, races in NZ as Charles Road.

Raced by Archer Equine Investments Ltd, Sir Charles Road has now had 18 starts for five wins, seven placings and more than $NZ432,000 prizemoney.

• With the 2018 NZB Karaka May Sale just around the corner, the $3000 weanling graduate So Far Sokool gave the auction a timely boost with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Listed Bendigo Guineas (1400m).

Trained by Archie Alexander and ridden by Nikita Beriman, the filly powered away from her opposition in the straight for a commanding four lengths win.

So Far Sokool (Showcasing x Sokool by Bin Ajwaad) was bred by Haunui Farm and was offered at the 2015 NZB National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale where she was bought by GJ Healey for $3000.

She began her career in New Zealand, where she had three starts for a win and two placings including a second in the Listed Great Northern Foal Stakes before she was sent to Australia to race in the colours of new part-owners OTI Racing.

So Far Sokool is the 24th stakes winner by Showcasing, who stands in the Northern Hemisphere at Whitsbury Manor Stud.