Another Group 1 Mile for Sacred Falls

Mark Smith - Saturday September 20
Equine snob Sacred Falls has won three races in Australia, all Group Ones over the Randwick mile.

 The dual Doncaster Handicap hero added Saturday's $350,000 Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) to his record, which includes a fourth Group 1 win over a mile in the 2012 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.

Ridden by Hong Kong based jockey Zac Purton, Sacred Falls took a narrow gap between runners to hand his stablemate Royal Descent (Redoute's Choice) another Group 1 second.

Trainer Chris Waller said the George Main victory proves Sacred Falls in much more than a wet tracker.

















He's a very good horse and it was good to see him win today on a good track," Waller said.

"He is not just a wet-tracker. Prior to coming to me he won a Group 1 in New Zealand on a pretty firm track and he showed Australia today that he is not just a wet tracker it is as simple as that.

"That is his fourth Group 1 victory now, all at a mile, so what more can you ask.

"It's just good when a plan comes off because he has been set for the race as soon as they said they were going to continue racing him.

"They are always there to win first and second-up, but how can you really screw them down when you need to be going towards races like today and races like the Cox Plate."

The son of O'Reilly is the third foal of winning Redoute's Choice mare Iguazu's Girl. He was a $160,000 purchase by Mulcaster Bloodstock, on behalf of Raffles Farm, from the Waikato Stud draft at the 2011 NZ Bloodstock Premier Yearling sale at Karaka.

Sacred Falls is a three-quarter brother to Group III winner and Ascot Vale Stakes (G1) runner-up Splashing Out the dam of Waikato Stud's Group II MRC Angus Armanasco Stakes winner Shopaholic (Pins).

Iguazu's Girl's dam (Lady) Iguazu, a daughter of the Bletchingly stallion Carolingian, won 12 of her 25 starts including two Group III's and six Listed stakes.

With two Cox Plate winners, Savabeel and Ocean Park, on the roster at Waikato Stud, Sacred Falls will be given the chance to join that duo before retiring to Waikato next year where he will stand alongside his father O'Reilly, the Leading Sire in New Zealand for the past three seasons.

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