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Blue-blooded
Redoute's Choice colt Laser Flash opened his winning account at Canterbury on
Wednesday when scoring a dogged victory over 1900 metres.
The David Payne trained three year-old was having his second run back from a spell
after an unlucky third at Goulburn and relished the step up to a staying trip.
He cruised along for Glyn Schofield and found the line strongly to hold off a
determined challenge from last start metro winner Jordan to win by a neck at
his fourth start.
"The penny hasnlt quite dropped yet, although he's a nice horse," said David
Payne.
"I always thought he was my Derby horse, so he will be entered and then we'll
see if he can step up."
A $500,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Cressfield draft, Laser Flash races
for South African owner/breeder Markus Jooste and is the second foal and first
winner for juvenile stakes-winner Personify.
Winning rider Glyn Schofield was impressed with Laser Flash, who is entered for
the Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes on October 6.
"He stays all day and while there is a lot of speed in his pedigree, he doesn't
know that," said Schofield.
"He never felt like he would be beaten at any stage."
Laser Flash comes from a powerful Black Type family, his mother Personify (pictured) purchased
by Keiran Moore Bloodstock on behalf of Cressfield for $2million when she topped the 2008
Inglis Broodmare Sale.
By champion European sire Galileo (IRE), Personify is a half-sister to five-time
Group I winner and champion South African filly Laisserfaire, stakes-winners
Foreplay and Time Thief as well as the dam of Group winners Centennial Park and
Ballack.
The current two year-old from Personify, another colt by Redoute's Choice, was
passed in at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale this year and the mare has
already foaled this spring, producing a filly by More Than Ready (USA).
Class: Benchmark 68. Track: Good. Time: 1:57.05. Sectional Time: 0:37.25 at 600m. Prizemoney: $35,000 - 1st: $19,880 2nd: $6,950 3rd: $3,470. |
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| 1 | 7. Laser Flash | David Payne | G Schofield (5) |
$8
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54.0 |
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 3c Redoute's Choice
x Personify
(Galileo (IRE)
)Lot 401; 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale; Vendor - Cressfield, Scone; Buyer - Payne Racing Pty Ltd $500,000 |
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| 2 | LN | 2. Jordan | Ms G Waterhouse | N Rawiller (6) |
$2.50
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57.0 |
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3g Haradasun
x Mystifying (NZ)
(Last Tycoon (IRE)
) Lot 456; 2010 Inglis Australian Select Weanling Sale; Vendor - Coolmore Stud, Jerry's Plains; Buyer - Withdrawn |
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| 3 | 1.0 | 3. Queenstown | Ms G Waterhouse | Tommy Berry (7) |
$9
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56.5 |
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3f Stratum
x Regal Heights (NZ)
(Zabeel (NZ)
) Lot 1657; 2011 MM National Yearling Sale; Vendor - Armidale Stud; Buyer - STAR THOROUGHBREDS $60,000 |
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| 4 | 2.4 | 6. Daruna | David Payne | Nathan Berry (2) |
$26
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54.0 |
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| 3g Dalakhani (IRE) x Pas De Deux (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA) ) | |||||||
| 5 | 2.7 | 1. Clever Boy | C J Waller | J Bowman (1) |
$3.50
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58.0 |
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| 3c Street Sense (USA) x Vocabulary (Encosta De Lago ) | |||||||
| 6 | 13.6 | 4. Warbird | G A Ryan | C W Brown (3) |
$9
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55.5 |
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| 3c Stratum x Zalila (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ) ) | |||||||
| 7 | 14.8 | 5. Heart Of Joy | A J Cummings | P Robl (4) |
$17
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54.0 |
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| 3f Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) x Rubimill (Rubiton ) | |||||||
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