NZ Broodmare Of The Year Nominations
Wednesday, 18 August 2010: They nominations are Gin Player (Defensive Play–Gin Rhythm), Miss Jessie Jay (Spectacularphantom-Miss Dinstinction), Pentamerous(Pentire–Johnny Loves Jazz) and Triassic (Tights-Astral Row).
Of the four, Miss Jessie Jay (Katie Lee) and Pentamerous(Shoot Out) foaled two of their Group One winning progeny in Australia but under a criteria change determined by the NZTBA Council progeny conceived in New Zealand is eligible for consideration.
GIN PLAYER was also a nominee in 2008/2009 when her owner Scott Williams won the Breeder of the Year Award.
One of the largest private breeders in NZ, he will send around 35 mares to stud this spring including Gin Player who will visit Zabeel after she foals down to Pentire.
Gin Player is nominated for the award through the deeds of Group One mare Zarita (Pentire) and Joy And Fun (Cullen), winner of the Al Quoz Sprint at the Dubai World Cup meeting.
Hong Kong-trained Joy And Fun has won 10 races and his stake earnings equate to just under NZ$5 million.
Joy And Fun is currently recuperating in a veterinary hospital in England after having his cannon bone screwed after a mishap in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Zarita won the G1 South Australia Derby and G1 Schweppes Oaks as a 3YO and as a six-year-old was back in form taking out the G2 Sunline Stakes in February.
Gin Player's seventh foal, a Zabeel filly was sold for A$1.3 million at the 2010 Sydney Easter Sales.
MISS JESSIE JAY foaled Katie Lee (Pins) in Australia when she was there to be mated with Oratorio (IRE), a mating which produced her second G1 winner in Banchee.
Following on from the success of Katie Lee she is once again in foal to Pins and is due to foal to that stallion at Hallmark Stud.
Katie Lee made history as the first filly to win the NZ 1000 and 2000 Guineas and finished the season as the champion 3YO filly of the year up to 1600 metres. She also won the NZ Bloodstock filly of the year title.
Katie Lee's half sister Banchee made her winning debut at Ellerslie in December and backed that up with an unlucky second placing in the G3 Eclipse Stakes.
Another unlucky run followed in the listed Karaka Million where she ran third but she made no mistakes in her next two outings winning the G2 Matamata Breeders Stakes for fillies and the G1 Ellerslie Sires Produce Stakes.
Banchee was weighted as the champion two-year-old filly of the year.
Miss Jessie Jay is also the dam of Éclair Fantastic (Spectatorial) who won four races in Australia before being sold to Hong Kong, where his older brother Ka Ka's Prosperity was also a winner.
A daughter of Spectacularphantom and the Bletchencore mare Miss Distinction, Miss Jessie Jay was bred at Hallmark Stud as was her mother.
PENAMOROUS is the dam of triple G1 winner Shoot Out, who was conceived in New Zealand and foaled in Australia .
Shoot Out won four races last season including the AJC Derby, Rosehill Guineas, Randwick Guineas and the G2 Royal Sovereign Stakes.
He is the second foal of Pentamorous the first being Cassandara Shadow the winner of four races including the G3 Western Australian Oaks.
Pentamorous (Pentire-Johnny Loves Jazz) was bred in the Hawkes Bay by NZTBA member Chris Russell, and sold at the Sydney Yearling Sale to Western Australian trainer Shane Edwards for $60,000 who bought her on behalf of his client John Roberts.
Pentamorous went to Johannesburg when retired and while she was in foal was shipped to Windsor Park STud in NZ for a mating with High Chaparral after her first foal - Cassandra Shadow - was born.
She then went back to WA in foal and was later sold at the Gold Coast Magic Millions Broodmare Sale.
The mare was purchased by Neville Stewart of Oaklands Stud on the Darling Downs and foaled Shoot Out the following August.
She missed the next season and then produced two fillies to Ferocity.
Last September she was purchased by Linda Huddy who had purchased Shoot Out at the Magic Million Yearling Sales in 2007, and is now due to foal to Encosta De Lago before returning to High Chaparral.
TRIASSIC also had Hiigh Chaparral as a consort when she produced the outstanding So You Think winner of Australia's ultimate G1 weight-for-age event the W.S Cox Plate.
So You Think's race career began in May 2009 when he won a two-year-old maiden on debut at Rosehill.
Trained by the legendary Bart Cummings he was put aside and commenced racing the following September in the Listed Ming Dynasty Handicap where he was narrowly beaten into second place.
He then won the 1800 metre G3 Gloaming Stakes impressively before heading to Melbourne.
After finishing fifth in the Caulfield Guineas, he lined him up in the W S Cox Plate, but with a daring ride from a lean mean Glen Boss carrying only 49.5 kilos he served up a stunning galloping lesson to lead all the way and win by two and a half lengths.
In only one other start in spring he finished second in the G1 Emirates Stakes behind All American.
Triassic has had seven foals to the races for seven winners.
She only had six starts and won the G2 Sir Tristram Classic at her last start after winning the Listed Soliloquy Stakes and seconds in the G2 Royal Stakes and G3 Lindauer Rose Handicap.
She was sold for $16,in 2005 in foal to Nuclear Freeze and that foal La Souvenir was a winner last season and was served by High Chaparral again before So You Think won the Cox Plate.
She produced a colt to Elusive City sold last January for $260,000 and she is in foal to High Chaparral again and will visit Mastercrafstman this spring.
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