Talented four year old speed mare Madhi Girl became the sixth stakes winner for her sire Winning Rupert when she burned the turf to win the Listed Summer Scorcher 1000m at Ascot on New Year's Day.
The bonny mare made it a treble on the day for the Simon Miller stable, what a way to kick off 2026- and she was beautifully ridden by Willie Pike who was also having a banner day that would get even better half an hour later in the $1m Perth Cup!
Madhi Girl was the punter's darling and went to post a hot favourite over the in form Jaz Session (Sessions) and Luke Fernie's Rommel mare Desert Whisper.
On jumping Desert Whisper absolutely flew the gates and scooted out to a clear lead with roughie Oxbridge (City Place), 20/1 Celestial Storm (Zoustar) and 25/1 Cut The Talk (Oratorio) all pushing forward at a hectic pace.
The veteran Acromantula (Written Tycoon) has still got plenty of toe and was up there behind the leaders with Pike settling Madhi Girl beside him.
Jaz Session and Shaun O'Donnell had got back in the field with 6/1 Hanchi (Squamosa) and 8/1 Richanco (Rich Enuff) for company.
At the 500 Desert Whisper led them to the turn at full bore with Cut The Talk looming on her outside and Oxbridge doing it tough three wide.
Madhi Girl and Acromantula were looking for runs as the field rocketed into the straight with Jaz Session held up momentarily.
Cut the talk hit the front as Desert Whisper ran out of gas but Pike had angled Madhi Girl into the clear and said go girl!
She responded gamely and raced to the front as Cut The Talk could do no more. But here came the old boy Acromantula sneaking up the rail and Jaz Session finally in the clear was coming with enormous bounds down the center of the track!
It was a great finish but Madhi Girl had enough in hand to win by a long neck from Jaz session who continues her outstanding form for the Erkelens stable.
It was a case of “mission accomplished” for the Miller camp who deliberately bypassed the carnival to tackle this race with Madhi Girl fresh off two trials, and their mare now has the coveted black type to her name.
Her Summer Scorcher win advances Mahdi Girl's career to six wins and two seconds from fifteen starts for earnings of $504,430.
The racy filly was up and going early with her four juvenile starts yielding a win over the Ascot 1000m course in January 2024 and culminating in a brave second as an unfancied 40/1 outsider in the rich Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic (RL) at Pinjarra in February.
Madhi Girl returned victorious as a Spring three year old over 1000m at Belmont Park before tackling stakes grade in which black type eluded her, however she did register a strong second to quality sprinter Repossession in the Placid Ark Prelude.
The filly found the soft tracks of winter and being kept to 1000m much to her liking and strung together three wins over the trip in winter at Bunbury, Pinjarra and Belmont. It looks like she is a pure short course specialist!
The attractive chestnut was a $68,000 purchase for her owner Teleah Hulse from the draft of Western Breeders Alliance (Darling View Stud, Einoncliff Park and Westbury Park WA) as agent at the 2023 Perth Magic Millions Sale.
Madhi Girl was the second foal from her dam Very Angry Gal (Gingerbread Man) and is the first to earn black type for the mare, who was also trained by Miller and was a juvenile winner from only four race starts. Very Angry Gal has produced five consecutive fillies, all her foals.
Madhi Girl's year younger half sister by Hellbent is named Elle Vee and has just commenced racing in the west with a placing from two starts. She was an $80,000 2023 Inglis Australian Weanling purchase for K Doak from the Cannon Hayes Stud draft.
The mare's 2023 filly Profit Gal by Capitalist's talented son Profiteer was consigned by Scenic Lodge and purchased by Miller for $47,500 in a 2024 Inglis Online Sale, and is yet to race.
Very Angry Gal was also offered as part of an unreserved dispersal by Scenic Lodge through Inglis online in 2024, and was purchased by Mark Nelson for $32,500.
Her sire Gingerbread Man seems to be in the news every other week with a new winner and in this instance signals his value as a broodmare sire, which one would expect from a son of Shamardal!
It's interesting that Shamardal mares often pass on pure raw speed, while his sons get progeny capable over all distances.
In 2024 Very Angry Gal foaled a filly to Universal Ruler before missing to Winning Rupert. She was covered by Maschino for this year's progeny but none is yet entered in the studbook records.
Her dam Street Show by the mighty Zeditave was unraced but produced seven foals of which six were winners, her best the prolific sprinter miler Profit Street (Viscount) whose nine wins included the Listed HG Bolton Sprint and three G3 placings - he also ran a brave fourth in a G1 Winterbottom Stakes.
Street Show was a half sister to the dam of Bob Peter's Australian Champion 3YO Filly Delicacy.
Delicacy won the G1 SAJC Derby, the G1 Schweppes Oaks, the G2 WA Derby and the G3 WA Oaks in a superb Classic season. She won a G2 Perth Cup , G2 Champion Fillies and CB Cox Stakes as well as placing in a G1 Kingston Town Classic. They don't come any braver or tougher than the great daughter of Al Maher.
Madhi Girl's third dam Street Talk was a daughter of Sir Tristram's very influential Golden Slipper winning son Marauding and she possessed considerable talent with four Melbourne Listed Sprint wins to her name. She was a half sister to the durable and super genuine stakes winning galloper Palladium Star (50 starts, 9 wins, 16 placings) who was a crowd favourite of his time.
This family descends from Lady Sawino a daughter of the royally bred Nijinsky son Whiskey Road out of Talia by Century so there's plenty of genetic fire-power on Madhi Girl's damline which bodes well for her own career as a broodmare when the time comes!
This female line traces to the imported mare Happy Queen GB foaled in 1915, a daughter of the Dewhurst Stakes winner King William and is a branch of the 2-h family - taproot mare Martha Lynne.
From her descend the great and breedshaping sires Voltigeur, Lord Clifden, Bend Or and arguably the greatest of them all, Carbine! - as well as countless more Classic winners of both sexes.
The flying grey Godswalk who met with much success in Australia was a member of this family
Madhi Girl has no inbreeding within five generations but she is linebred to Nijinsky (sex balanced), Better Boy and his sire My Babu (sex balanced),Bletchingly and his sire Biscay (sex balanced) Relic (sex balanced) Aureole and Sir Tristram.
Her grand dam Street Show is bred x 2 to Blue Hen Boudoir by Mahmoud and this nicks especially well with Kenmare.
And she is linebred to the bluest of Hens in Best In Show with multiple lines to La Troienne.
Madhi Girl is the sixth stakes winner for Geisel Park Stud's Winning Rupert.
The super speedy G2/G3 winning son of champion sire Written Tycoon loves to get a fast filly and Madhi Girl is his fourth female stakes winner.
Winning Rupert is a beautiful type bearing the powerful stamp of his sire and stands at Geisel Park Stud in Myalup on a fee of $6,600.
