Judging from her dominant win over 1200m at Canberra on Sunday, we have not heard the last of the Invader debutant Sunshine In Paris.
Ridden by Alysha Collett for Annabel Neasham, Sunshine in Paris circled the field, displaying a brilliant turn of foot to leave her rivals in her wake.
The Matthew Smith-trained Winston Hills, also by Invader, was a safe two lengths back in second, with his stablemate Bokeem (Rubick) a distant six and a quarter lengths back in third.
Sunshine in Paris sold as an unraced 2yo at the 2022 Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale. Consigned by Blue Sky Premium, the Aquis-bred filly was a $90,000 purchase for Champagne Bloodstock.
She is a three-quarter sister to the Group III MVRC Typhoon Tracy Stakes and Listed Woodlands Stakes winner Macroura out of the Zabeel mare Zenaida.
A $240,000 purchase for Paul Willetts Bloodstock from the Willow Park draft at the 2021 National Broodmare Sale, Zenaida is a half-sister to the Horse of the Year in NZ in 2009-10, triple Group 1 winner, Vosne Romanee (Electronic Zone).
From the famous ‘Heights’ family, Zenaida had a weanling daughter of Dubious, knocked down to James Bester for $145,000 from the Three Bridges draft.
Zenaida missed to Bivouac last spring, but her talented daughter Macroura foaled an I Am Invincible filly on August 20.
Aquis Farms Invader has four lots catalogued for the Gold Coast in January.
