It took 24 starts for
5-year-old Flying Spur mare Hazard to win her first stakes race but just one
more for her second, which came when she ran the top-class Catkins in
Saturday's $200,000 Group II Best Security Dane Ripper Stakes (1350m) at
Doomben.
The Lee and Anthony Freedman-trained mare is racing in rare
form, winning at Caulfield before claiming the Group III William Hill Proud
Miss Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville at her most recent start.
Bred by Darley, Hazard
powered home to defeat Catkins (Dubawi) by one and a quarter length with Bound
For Earth (Northern Meteor) a half-length back in third.
It takes the overall record of Hazard to 10 wins, 3 seconds
and 2 thirds from 25 starts for earnings of $551,615.
Darley Managing Director Henry Plumtre said the daughter of
Flying Spur had jumped out of the ground in recent weeks.
"Three weeks ago this mare was in Adelaide and
Queensland wasn't on our agenda," Plumptre said.
"But Lee said he would like to take her to Brisbane and
try to get into the Tatt's Tiara at the Gold Coast in two weeks time.
"That is where we will be heading now and the 1400
metres of that race should suit her very well."
Hazard is one of four Group winners out of the imported
Fantastic Light (USA) mare Dawn Attack (IRE) following Crucial (Nadeem),
Antelucan (Domesday) and Java (Medaglia D'Oro (USA))
Sadly Dawn Attack (IRE) died in November 2013.
Her final foal is a yearling Helmet colt named Jaywick.
