Young sire Reset's stocks as a Group One producer soared when his daughter Pinker Pinker came with a determined run to win the Australasian weight-for-age championship, the G1 W.S. Cox Plate, at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
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Pinker Pinker became Reset's second G1 winner and added to the tremendous run of G1 victories for graduates of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale when she ran down NZ Horse of the Year Jimmy Choux in the last 200m.
Pinker Pinker was sold for $120,000 at the 2009 Premier Sale where she was purchased by trainer Greg Eurell for clients David and Carol Gazdowicz.
Pinker Pinker is out of the winning Success Express mare Miss Marion, a three-quarter sister to the stakes performer Sipowicz.
Miss Marion foaled a colt by Denman this spring and is booked in to be covered by champion sire Lonhro in the coming weeks.
Victorian-based Reset is the sire of 14 individual stakes winners including the dual G1 winner Rebel Raider and the consistent G1 performers Set For Fame and Avienus, who also contested this year's Cox Plate.
By Zabeel from Zeditave's G1 winner Assertive Lass, Reset was retired unbeaten after just five starts that included wins in the G1 Australian Guineas and G1 Futurity Stakes.
Eurell, who selected Pinker Pinker from the Milford Thoroughbreds draft at Oaklands, had tasted G1 success with other gallopers including his grand sprinter Apache Cat.
Pinker Pinker joins a long list of horses that have gone from Inglis yearling sale rings to winning the Cox Plate, such as Maldivian, Fields Of Omagh and Might And Power.
“It was funny how things work out, we were at the Inglis sales and I ran into David and Carol (Gazdowicz) and they had a couple of horses there that they had picked out and wanted me to look at,” Eurell said.
“We had a look at her and she was the one we wanted and fortunately we got her and it just went on from there.”
Pinker Pinker is now the winner of six races from 16 starts and over $2.4million in prizemoney.
She joins Australian Horse of the Year Black Caviar and South African Horse of the Year Igugu as mares purchased at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale to win at G1 level in 2011.
