Windsor Park Stud Celebrate Turn Me Loose Hot Run

Media Release - Tuesday March 15

Hot young sire Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj) further embellished his rising stocks when his exciting 3YO daughter Ancient Girl gained her first stakes success in the Morphettville Guineas in Adelaide yesterday.

The only filly in the field, Ancient Girl was a warm favourite on the back of her narrow defeat by Barb Raider in the Gr.3 Vanity Stakes at Flemington last month and she never gave her supporters any concern maintaining a relentless gallop over the 1600m trip to cruise to victory by just under three lengths.

Ancient Girl is the fourth stakes-winner for Turn Me Loose - image Racing SA

With her record now three wins from six starts trainer Clint McDonald is considering Ancient Girl’s future options.

“It is great for her owners who raced Turn Me Loose and own a share in him and it was important for them as the stallion is doing an amazing job,” McDonald said.

“He had a Group One winner yesterday and this filly has just won a Listed race, so he is a stallion who has gone to another level for sure.

“We have got the Australasian Oaks (Gr.1, 2000m) next month in mind and I think she will be an even better four-year-old mare.”

Bred by Dave Morris and Jason Thomasen, Ancient Girl was a A$150,000 purchase by McDonald Racing from Windsor Park Stud’s 2020 Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale draft.

Lickety Split defeats Team Te Akau to win G1 Sistema Stakes - image Trish Dunell

The stocks of Turn Me Loose have been in an upward trajectory recently with the triple Gr.1 winning son of Iffraaj siring three stakes winners inside three weeks, culminating with Lickety Split’s Group One success in the Sistema Stakes at Ellerslie on Sunday.

Turn Me Loose has had three SW's in three weeks!

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Race Result - Morphettville Guineas LR 1600m

Morphettville Track: Good(4) Time: 1:37.72

1

Ancient Girl

- 3f Turn Me Loose (NZ) x Herculaneum (NZ) (Elusive City (USA))

Tnr: C W McDonald Rdr: Jamie Kah 55.5

2

2.5

Harleymoven

- 3g Foxwedge (AUS) x Inishmore (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))

Tnr: D Clarken & O Macgillivray Rdr: R J Hurdle 57.5

Foxwedge

3

3.8

Set The Sails

- 3c More Than Ready (USA) x Jolie Brise (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))

Tnr: M Price & M Kent Jnr Rdr: B Melham 57.5

More Than Ready

4

6.1

Max Fire

- 3g Star Turn (AUS) x Witwatersrand (IRE) (Unfuwain (USA))

Tnr: Travis Doudle Rdr: P Gatt 57.5

5

6.4

Residue

- 3g Shooting To Win (AUS) x Amalgamate (AUS) (Zenno Rob Roy (JPN))

Tnr: R W Huxtable Rdr: Jessica Eaton 57.5

6

7.9

Alpine Beau

- 3g Alpine Eagle (AUS) x Liffeybel (AUS) (Bel Esprit (AUS))

Tnr: J Hickmott & C Riggs Rdr: J Maund 57.5

7

8.0

Benz Baron

- 3g Written Tycoon (AUS) x Prostar (AUS) (Starcraft (NZ))

Tnr: Grant Young Rdr: Ms E Finnegan 57.5

8

9.7

Water Into Wine

- 3g Sir Prancealot (IRE) x God's Child (AUS) (God's Own (AUS))

Tnr: T & C McEvoy Rdr: B Vorster 57.5

9

10.7

Coyote

- 3g Tivaci (AUS) x Salford Art (IRE) (Sir Percy (GB))

Tnr: Michael Hickmott Rdr: Todd Pannell 57.5

10

11.6

Tupoleu

- 3g Air Force Blue (USA) x Eight Eighty Eight (USA) (Maria's Mon (USA))

Tnr: S P Gower Rdr: O Ridge 57.5

11

12.5

Charm Slinga

- 3g Per Incanto (USA) x Shana Singa (NZ) (Danasinga (AUS))

Tnr: John Hyam Rdr: Will Price 57.5

12

16.5

Strike Eagle

- 3g More Than Ready (USA) x Assertive Eagle (AUS) (Danewin (AUS))

Tnr: T & C McEvoy Rdr: John Allen 57.5

13

18.2

Bamyan Buddha

- 3c Rich Enuff (AUS) x Carnivale (AUS) (Carnegie (IRE))

Tnr: Grant Young Rdr: D Tourneur 57.5

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