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Satisfying Week For Windsor Park Stud

Rip Van Winkle mare Euro Angel continued a strong week for Karaka graduates when she won the G3 Ladies’ Day Vase at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Euro Angel
Euro Angel Picture: Racing and Sports

Following on from the Karaka Ready to Run Sale quinella of Debt Collector (Thorn Park) and Well Done (Falkirk) in last Sunday’s Kranji Mile in Singapore, Premier Sale graduate Euro Angel stepped up for her first attempt at stakes level.

The four-year-old outsprinted her rivals in the last 300 metres to score by a length and a half and add considerable value to her pedigree.

Euro Angel has now had six starts for three wins, three placings and $199,435 in stakes.

She is trained by Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes, who purchased her for $200,000 from the draft of Windsor Park Stud at the 2014 Premier Sale at Karaka.

Euro Angel was bred by Windsor Park, who also bred both the Singapore quinella pair Debt Collector and [Well Done.

Euro Angel is out of the Polish Precedent mare Polish Princess, who won four races including a Listed win and was G1 placed in the Easter Handicap.

Polish Princess is now the dam of three stakes winners with Euro Angel joining multiple stakes winner and G1 placegetter Leebaz (Zabeel) and the G2 winner and Australian Derby runner-up Polish Knight (Encosta De Lago), both trained by the Hawkes family.

Euro Angel's success capped a tremendous run for her sire Rip Van Winkle (Galileo) as he also sired Wednesday’s impressive Sydney winner Nassak for Randwick trainer James Cummings.

Rip Van Winkle has sired three new stakes winners this week including 4YO gelding Bravo Zolo who was successful at Chantilly in Paris in the Listed Prix Du Ranelagh.

• WINDSOR Park Stud has announced that Clerihew, the dam of last Saturday's G1 Toorak Handicap winner He's Our Rokkii, is to return this season to Invincible Spirit's multiple G1 winning son Charm Spirit.

The decision was made by the owners of Clerihew after the European-bred mare foaled a colt by Charm Spirit at Wentwood Grange in Cambridge last Sunday, a day after He's Our Rokkii's G1 success in Melbourne.

By champion German colt Lomitas, Clerihew is a daughter of the Irish Group winning racemare Clerio, herself a granddaughter of Horse Of The Year and champion NZ mare La Mer, whose 24 wins included the G1 NZ Oaks.

Purchased by Paul Moroney Bloodstock at the 2005 Tattersalls December Mares Sales for owners John Collinson and Costa Feneridas, Clerihew's first foal is the seven-times winning racemare Aluminium Bikerack. Her second foal to race is He's Our Rokkii.

Charm Spirit, the highest earning son of champion sire Invincible Spirit, won six races as a two and three including his last three starts in G1 company in the Chantilly Prix Jean Prat, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and Ascot Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Charm Spirit served a full book of mares at Windsor Park Stud in his first season last year.

He shuttles to NZ from the Aga Khan's Haras De Bonneval stud in France.
Racing and Sports

Caulfield Wednesday, 12th October 2016

7f210y TURF GOOD
AUD $150,750

Nick Johnstone Ladies Day Vase (G3)

AUD $150,750
Age: 4yo and up Sex: M Type: OPEN
7f210y TURF GOOD
FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 15. EURO ANGEL (NZ) 4yo M
RIP VAN WINKLE (IRE) - POLISH PRINCESS (GB)
DWAYNE DUNN
M, W & J HAWKES
$5.5
55kg
P J Duggan, D V Russo, R L Milne, A R McDonald, R S Collins & J Chapman

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2nd 5. ROCKET COMMANDER (AUS) 5yo M
COURT COMMAND (AUS) - PINOT ROYALE (AUS)
BLAKE SHINN
MATTHEW DALE
$21
56kg
Mrs S G McGuinness, Mrs A E Dale & Spotswood Racing

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3rd 2. ANTELUCAN (AUS) 4yo M
DOMESDAY (AUS) - DAWN ATTACK (IRE)
BEN MELHAM
JOHN O'SHEA
$15
57kg
Godolphin
4th 1. SERENE MAJESTY (AUS) 4yo M
FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - CUSTARD (AUS)
HUGH BOWMAN
PETER & PAUL SNOWDEN
$4.5
57kg

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5th 7. ALASKAN ROSE (NZ) 4yo M
ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - SASKIA (AUS)
PATRICK MOLONEY
MICHAEL MORONEY
$11
55kg

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6th 9. KANIANA (AUS) 6yo M
CANNY LAD (AUS) - ST ANNA (AUS)
LUKE NOLEN
DARREN WEIR
$15
55kg
7th 14. DULVERTON (AUS) 4yo M
COMMANDS (AUS) - RATHLIN ISLAND (AUS)
CRAIG WILLIAMS
ROBERT SMERDON
$26
55kg

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8th 4. GABELLA (FR) 6yo M
ARCHANGE D'OR (IRE) - PREMIERE CHANCE (FR)
DAMIAN LANE
D & B HAYES & T DABERNIG
$10
56kg

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9th 6. MANAGERESS (AUS) 5yo M
MAGNUS (AUS) - WHO'S IN CHARGE (NZ)
NICHOLAS HALL
CINDY ALDERSON
$10
55kg
10th 3. IGGIMACOOL (AUS) 6yo M
SAVOIRE VIVRE (GB) - HIDDEN MOMENT (AUS)
RYAN MALONEY
ROBERT SMERDON
$17
56kg

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11th 10. AMARELA (NZ) 5yo M
PENTIRE (GB) - CHICKENS (AUS)
MICHAEL WALKER
NIGEL BLACKISTON
$41
55kg

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12th 13. TEARS OF JOY (AUS) 5yo M
STREET CRY (IRE) - LUCIDA (AUS)
TOMMY BERRY
MARK KAVANAGH
$61
55kg

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13th 8. LILLY DAZZLER (AUS) 6yo M
RED DAZZLER (AUS) - ARALUEN STAR (AUS)
CRAIG NEWITT
MONICA CROSTON
$201
55kg

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14th 16. EGYPT (AUS) 4yo M
SEBRING (AUS) - BASHAAYER (AUS)
DAMIEN OLIVER
MARK KAVANAGH
$11
55kg

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15th 12. DANIELA ROSA (AUS) 4yo M
DANE SHADOW (AUS) - CELESTIAL BABE (AUS)
JORDAN CHILDS
MICHAEL MORONEY
$21
55kg

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16th 11. NIMINYPIMINY (AUS) 6yo M
PRIMUS (AUS) - DOLPHINORA (AUS)
CHRIS PARNHAM
RUSSELL CAMERON
$101
55kg

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