Well-related Sacred Falls filly wins at Hawkesbury
The well-bred All Hallows' Eve (3 f Sacred Falls - Halloween by Encosta De Lago) landed a shock victory on debut in a maiden race over 1100 metres at Hawkesbury on Thursday.
Trained by John O'Shea, the filly proved too strong for her rivals, staying on impressively to gain the lead inside the final 100 metres, eventually scoring a length and three-quarter victory over Only Mine (Smart Missile), while Parineeti (Deep Field) finished a further two and a quarter lengths away in third.
Raced in partnership that includes Waikato Stud, who stood her late sire Sacred Falls (O'Reilly), and Anthony Mithen's Rosemont Stud, the filly is out of Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare Halloween, who has produced five other winners, including her Group 3-placed stablemate and sister All Saint's Eve and New Zealand 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Hasahalo (Savabeel). Hasahalo was sold to China Horse Club for a - at the time - online thoroughbred auction record price of NZ$670,000 on gavelhouse.com in March.
Halloween herself is out of Listed winner La Lagune (Danehill), making her a half-sister to Generous Nature (Carnegie) - the dam of Group 2 winner Savvy Nature (Savabeel) and Group 3 winner Addictive Nature (Savabeel).
The mare's 2018 colt by Savabeel (Zabeel) was purchased for Henry Dwyer Racing for NZ$230,000 at this year's New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka National Yearling Sale and in 2019 she produced another colt by Waikato Stud's champion stallion.
Halloween has proved a shrewd purchase by Mark Chittack's Waikato Stud, who paid Hallmark Stud NZ$11,000 for the Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare at the 2013 National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale, and since the New Zealand operation have sold four of her progeny for an aggregate of NZ$584,000.
Multiple Group 1 winner Sacred Falls, whose oldest crop are four-year-olds, died from liver disease in December last year.
