Exciting
young stallion Star Witness posted a Black Type quinella in the Listed SAJC
Dequetteville Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday with his two talented
daughters Pearl Star and Typhoon Witness forging clear to fight out the finish.
Stakes-placed at the same venue back in February in the Listed SAJC Cinderella
Stakes, the Matt Laurie trained Pearl Star strode away to win the 1050 metre
sprint by a length and a half with Typhoon Witness doing an amazing job on
debut to be second.
A $105,000 Inglis Classic Summer Book purchase from the Widden Stud draft for
her trainer, Pearl Star has won over $60,000 in prizemoney for her big team of
owners.
Bred by the Laing Racing Syndicate, Pearl Star is the second foal and second
winner for Pearl of the Sea, a juvenile winner by Fastnet Rock from the family
of Group I VRC Sires Produce Stakes winner Spectatorial.
Pearl of the Sea has been a regular visitor to Star Witness and has yearling
and weanling colts by the sire and is due to foal to him again later this year.
Runner-up Typhoon Witness was retained to race by Sean Buckley's Ultra Racing
Syndicate and she too looks to have a very bright future being from the
well-bred Lady Larissa, a half-sister to Group I winner Casino Prince and stakes-winners
Tagus, Law of the Land and Metallurgical.
Pearl Star is the second stakes-winner for Star Witness and is one of six
stakes performers for the dual Group I winning sprinter, whose good colt The
Barrister ran a brave fifth in the Group I ATC Champagne stakes at Randwick
after leading for home.
Widden Stud's Star Witness has now moved to a clear second on the Australian First Season
Sires List.
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