Season Keeps Getting Better For Darci Brahma

The season keeps getting better for Darci Brahma with the son of Danehill siring a stakes double at Trentham on Saturday led by another G1 win for the classy Julinsky Pince.

A new juvenile Group winner for The Oaks Stud resident made up the double when Leading Role (Darci Brahma x Screen Siren by Montjeu) became the stallion’s 24th stakes winner when he won the G2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1200m).

Julinsky Prince (Darci Brahma x Julinsky Princess by Stravisnksy) ) added a second G1 win to his record landing the Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) to go with his first G1 victory in October’s Windsor Park Plate (1600m).

Darci Brahma has now sired seven G1 winners including this season’s NZ 1000 Guineas winner RIsque. His other G1 winners are Recite, Irish Fling, Nashville, Artistic and Gust Of Wind.

Julinsky Prince, trained by Fraser Auret, was having his third run this preparation which begun with his Windsor Park Plate win before he ran third in the G2 Tauranga Stakes.

He had finished fourth in the Captain Cooks Stakes last year behind 2013 and 2014 winner Shuka, who finished fifth on Saturday in his bid to win the race for the third consecutive year.

Auret said the G1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day is the next possible target for Julinsky Prince.

Raced by his breeder Bromley Bloodstock, the 6YO Julinsky Prince has now raced 33 times for 11 wins and six placings with prize money totalling $522,690.

He is the only stakes winner and one of two winners out of his Listed-winning dam Julinsky Princess, a half-sister to the stakes winners Dontellthewife (Volksraad) and Unknown Heights (Kaapstad) from the Shirley Heights mare Juliette Heights.

Julinsky Prince’s third dam is the Epsom and Irish Oaks winner Juliette Marny (Blakeney), who produced eight winners from 12 foals to race.

The Gary Vile-trained Leading Role was purchased from the proceeds of a sale of a debut winner earlier this year.

He was purchased for $28,000 from the NZB Select Yearling Sale at Karaka following the sale of Ina Canta (Per Incanto), who won his first start for Vile during the Wellington Cup meeting in January.

Vile said Ina Canta was sold to go to Hong Kong but has remained in New Zealand and is now with Te Awamatu trainer Brendon Hawtin.

“The same syndicate that raced Ina Cantala bought Leading Role, who was unplaced at his first start behind the highly regarded Ronda at Otaki.

Vile said Leadsng Role will now be spelled with G1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes his aim when he returns to work.

Leading Role is one of two winners out of his winning dam Screen Siren, a daughter of the G3 placed Florinda (Lord Ballina).

Florinda is the dam of six winners from seven foals to race and is also the grandam of the Cranbourne Cup winner Boom ‘N’ Zoom (Dash For Cash).

• DANROAD gelding Statham became the seventh stakes winner for his sire winning the G3 Concorde Handicap at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Previously placed three times at stakes level and fourth in last year’s Concorde, Statham will now run in the G1 Railway Stakes at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day.

The Scott Lucock and Sally Gillespie-trained six-year-old has a half-brother by Reliable Man (Dalakhani) catalogued for the 2016 New Zealand Bloodstock Select Yearling Sale.

Statham (Danroad x Polyana by Pyrus) capped the riding comeback of jockey Chris Dell after an horrendous fall at the Ruakaka trials nearly 12 months ago when the 23-year-old suffered serious head injuries.