Winner: Happy Archer (Dubawi-So Tempted)
Race: Durban Thekwini Stakes G1 (1600m)
Sold for $23,000
Sale: 2009 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale
Vendor: Racetree
Buyer: Mark Terry
Owner(s): Mr SM Nathan
Trainer: Sean Tarry (South Africa)
Happy Archer as a yearling
Happy Archer confirmed her status as one of the rising stars of South African racing with a thrashing of her rivals in Saturday night’s Group One Durban Thekwini Stakes (1600m) at Greyville.
Sent out the favourite after a pair on impressive wins at her previous two outings on the track, the Dubawi filly relished the extra journey in the feature two-year-old contest and she cleared away for an easy win.
Star jockey Anton Marcus allowed Happy Archer to settle back in the field, in between runners, before making his move approaching the home turn.
Marcus was able to get the filly to the outside of runners in the straight and from there she was able to reel in the leaders and race to the front.
Happy Archer, a graduate of renowned Queensland thoroughbred nursery Racetree and half sister to this season’s Queensland stakes winner Femina Fashion, is trained by Sean Tarry.
She was purchased for just $23,000 at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale by Tarry’s brother and regular Gold Coast buyer Mark.
The exciting youngster is the 12th individual stakes winner for her sire – Dubawi, the Irish Two Thousand Guineas winning son of Dubai Millennium.
Her dam So Tempted, a winner in Adelaide over 1250 metres, is from the stakes performed and six time winning Semipalatinsk mare Hutt Star.
So Tempted, by Melbourne Cup winner Jeune, is therefore a full sister to Wakeful Stakes winner and VRC Oaks placegetter Lolita Star and a half sister to Adelaide Guineas winner Berezny.
So Tempted is doing a great job at stud and her two named foals to date are both stakes winning fillies.
As well as Happy Archer she is the dam of the Gold Coast Bracelet winner and Doomben Roses runner-up Femina Fashion.
Prepared at the Gold Coast by Trevor Whittington, Femina Fashion is a winner from 1200 to 1800 metres and has already earned her connections $189,800.
