Winner: Ringa Ringa Rosie (Bradbury’s Luck-La Guichet)
Race: BRC Hampden Stakes LR (1200m)
Sold for: $46,000
Sale: 2009 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale
Vendor: Emerald Thoroughbreds
Buyer: Laming Racing
Earnings: $128,100
Owner(s): Waragap Synd (Mgr: Mrs J Laming), G Carmody, Mrs S Carmody & Mrs R Tipper
Trainer: Bevan and Richard Laming (Jacobs Well)
Top jockey Chris Munce described Ringa Ringa Rosie a star in the making when she produced a barnstorming finish to win the listed $100,000 Hampden Stakes (1200m) at Doomben today.
Describe the Bradbury’s Lucky filly as “outstanding” Munce said he expected the filly to excel once she got out to distances of around a mile.
Allowed to settle back in the field, Ringa Ringa Rosie rattled home from last, down the outside of the track to win by a length and a half.
It was a performance that has Munce bubbling in the winner’s stall.
“She’s the real deal this filly,” Munce stated. “I’ve got no doubt she’s a Group One winner in the making.”
“To come from where she did and beat them the way she did I think she’s pretty bloody good.”
“She has a great nature and is a beautiful mover – she ticks all the boxes and once she gets to a mile she will excel.”
The filly, who was racing for the first time since an unplaced effort behind Military Rose in the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic, is prepared at Jacobs Well by the Laming family.
“Her runs last preparation were very good until she hit the wet tracks,” co-trainer Bevan Laming said.
“She’s well above average – but she is a dry track horse.”
Laming said the filly would race next in the Doomben Slipper (1350m) on May 2 prior to a crack at the Group One TJ Smith (1600m) across the road at Eagle Farm on June 12.
She wont run in the Group Two QTC Sires’ Produce Stakes.
“She’s a big, big filly and you couldn’t back her up. There’s only one week between them (the Sires’ and TJ Smith).”
But connections won’t risk their rising star. Should the tracks be rain affected she won’t run. In which case she would be aimed at the Melbourne Spring Carnival instead.
Laming knew the filly would acquit herself well after she worked solidly with a stablemate who later in the day would also win at stakes level.
“She worked at Ipswich with Crossthestart and the work was very good. She’s a top class filly.”
A $46,000 purchase from the draft of Emerald Thoroughbreds at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Ringa Ringa Rosie is a valuable youngster with a bright future ahead.
She is the first stakes winner for her sire – the Glenlogan Park based Redoute’s Choice stallion Bradbury’s Luck.
A winner of the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, regarded as one of the finest stallion producing races in Australia, Bradbury’s Luck also won the Canonbury Stakes in Sydney as a juvenile.
Ringa Ringa Rosie is from a Sydney two-year-old winning Al Hareb daughter of the Flight Stakes winner and Queensland Oaks runner-up La Caissiere.
As well as being the dam of Ringa Ringa Rosie’s dam La Guichet, La Caissiere is also the dam of dual Group One winner Dashing Eagle.
Another of her daughters, the three time South African winner Pacific Sunrise, is the dam of three stakes performers in that country including Group winners Pacific Warrior and Pacific Charm.
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