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Smart move results in further Group One success

The decision to save Exodus from a serious racing injury has provided Windsor Park Stud with yet another major breeding success at the Hong Kong international meeting.

Aerovelocity winning the THE LONGINES HONG KONG SPRINT.
Aerovelocity winning the THE LONGINES HONG KONG SPRINT. Picture: HKJC

She is the dam of the Gr.1 HK Sprint winner Aerovelocity and continued the Cambridge farm’s proud record on the Sha Tin stage.

“We also bred the Hong Kong Mile winners Catalan Opening and Beauty Flash and sold the dams of two others through our yearling drafts,” Windsor Park general manager Steve Till said.

“We sold Able Friend’s mother Ponte Piccolo for Nick Wigley to Gai Waterhouse for $105,000 and she was a stakes winner and we also sold Miss Priority, who was the dam of Lucky Owners. She was from the family of Might And Power.

“It’s been a very good meeting to not only us, but the New Zealand industry and continues to show we can breed horses that can compete internationally at any level.”

Till and stud co-owner Nelson Schick bred Aerovelocity, a son of Pins, from the Kaapstad mare Exodus.

“She won a maiden race for us and then we stepped her up to 2000 metres at Te Rapa and she went amiss on the corner,” Till said.

“She smashed a pastern, but we managed to piece her back together – she was a good type and well-bred as a sister to the Group Two winner Kapitain Kash and a half-sister to Dante’s Paradiso, a stakes winner in Australia.

“After a long recovery we managed to breed three foals and they have all been winners with Aerovelocity the third. Unfortunately, the mare died having the fourth foal.”

Aerovelocity was purchased by Paul O’Sullivan for $120,000 at Karaka in 2010 and has now won eight of his 15 starts.

“He’s the first New Zealand-bred winner of the Hong Kong Sprint,” Till said.

Windsor Park Stud will offer a Rip Van Winkle filly out of Psalms, a half-sister to Aerovelocity’s dam during the Select Sale at Karaka in 2015.


NZ Racing News



Sha Tin Sunday, 14th December 2014

5f212y TURF GOOD FIRM
HKD $18,500,000

THE LONGINES HONG KONG SPRINT (G1)

HKD $18,500,000
Age: 3yo and up Type: OPEN
5f212y TURF GOOD FIRM
FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 9. AEROVELOCITY (NZ) 6yo G
PINS (AUS) - EXODUS (NZ)
ZAC PURTON
P O'SULLIVAN
$3.9
126lbs
Daniel Yeung Ngai

Sales Information

2nd 8. PENIAPHOBIA (IRE) 3yo G
DANDY MAN (IRE) - UMLANI (IRE)
DOUGLAS WHYTE
A S CRUZ
$2.8
126lbs
Huang Kai Wen

Sales Information

3rd 13. STRAIGHT GIRL (JPN) 5yo M
FUJI KISEKI (JPN) - NEVER PERIOD (JPN)
Y IWATA
H FUJIWARA
$55
122lbs
Hirosaki Toshihiro HD Co. Ltd.
4th 6. GORDON LORD BYRON (IRE) 6yo G
BYRON (GB) - BOA ESTRELA (IRE)
W M LORDAN
TOM HOGAN
$54
126lbs

Sales Information

5th 12. GOLDEN HARVEST (AUS) 6yo H
Al Maher (AUS) - Marzipan (NZ)
RYAN MOORE
TONY MILLARD
$21
126lbs

Sales Information

6th 5. BUFFERING (AUS) 7yo G
MOSSMAN (AUS) - ACTION ANNIE (AUS)
DAMIAN BROWNE
ROBERT HEATHCOTE
$42
126lbs
7th 10. SMART VOLATILITY (AUS) 6yo G
DANEWIN (AUS) - SOMETHING FUNNY (AUS)
GERALD MOSSE
K W LUI
$8.2
126lbs
8th 7. SNOW DRAGON (JPN) 6yo H
ADMIRE COZZENE (JPN) - MEINE CAPRICE (JPN)
TAKUYA ONO
N TAKAGI
$62
126lbs
9th 3. SOLE POWER (GB) 7yo G
KYLLACHY (GB) - DEMERGER (USA)
RICHARD HUGHES
EDWARD LYNAM
$39
126lbs

Sales Information

10th 4. STERLING CITY (AUS) 6yo G
NADEEM (AUS) - So Gorgeous (AUS)
JOAO MOREIRA
JOHN MOORE
$13
126lbs

Sales Information

11th 1. LUCKY NINE (IRE) 7yo G
DUBAWI (IRE) - BIRJAND (GB)
BRETT PREBBLE
CASPAR FOWNES
$5.4
126lbs

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12th 2. SPALATO (NZ) 5yo G
ELUSIVE CITY (USA) - ELLINGTON (NZ)
MANOEL NUNES
J O'HARA
$30
126lbs
13th 11. FLAGSHIP SHINE (AUS) 5yo G
TALE OF THE CAT (USA) - DIXIE PARADISE (USA)
NASH RAWILLER
JOHN MOORE
$37
126lbs

Sales Information

14th 14. LITTLE GERDA (USA) 5yo M
CLOSING ARGUMENT (USA) - BIJOUX MISS (USA)
M DEMURO
I SAMESHIMA
$50
122lbs

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