John Camilleri’s Fairway Thoroughbreds have bred superstars ranging from Golden Slipper winner Vancouver to world champion racehorse Winx and one of the bluebloods they have bred and sold is promising Dubawi mare In Italian, who resumed from a long lay off to win easily at Tampa Downs with a close relation to be offered at Magic Millions on Friday.
The Chad Brown trained four year-old mare was a TDN Rising Star when winning her maiden last May at Belmont and has been off the scene since then.
She reappeared in a one mile allowance on turf and bolted in by four and a half lengths and has now won two of three starts.
A 475,000 guinea Tattersalls October Yearling Sale purchase for Mike Ryan on behalf of owner Peter Brant, In Italian is a half-sister to two Australian stakes-placed horses in Villa Carlotta and Fasano being the fourth winner from four foals to race from Australian bred Group III winning Redoute’s Choice mare Florentina.
The family appears at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale with Segenhoe to offer Lot 669 on Friday morning, a stunning I Am Invincible filly, the second foal from Group II placed Street Cry (IRE) mare Villa Carlotta.
A half-sister to Group I winner Gathering from the Twyla branch of the famed Dancing Show family, Florentina was bred by Fairway Thoroughbreds and retained to race.
She had four foals in Australia before being sent to the Northern Hemisphere where she was covered by Dubawi producing In Italian followed by a Kingman colt that was born in the UK and then sent back to Australia with his dam in 2019 when she was safely back in foal to Kingman again to Southern Hemisphere time.
The Kingman colt was sold at Magic Millions last year in the Segenhoe draft with Tom Magnier paying $1.8million to secure the blue-blood, while his mother Florentina was sold in 2020 at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale for $650,000 to the Towell family’s Jananth Pty Ltd.
She did the right thing for her new owners producing a gorgeous Kingman filly last spring that has been entered for Inglis Easter 2022.
