A FREAKISH result at the Sydney autumn carnival has been two winners of Group1 juvenile races, the fillies Mossfun and Peggy Jean, being the only runners to date for their broodmare sires.
The first of these winners has been the Mossfun, the annexer of the Golden Slipper at Rosehill Gardens on April 5. She is by Mossman and from Eye for Fun, an unraced mare who is the first broodmare to represent Arrowfield Stud's budding champion sire Snitzel.
Peggy Jean became the second leg of this double when she recorded an authoritative win in the million dollar Inglis Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. She is by the shuttling Danehill grandson Myboycharlie (by Danetime) and is the first foal of Lady of Love, another unraced mare who is the only one by her sire, Lago Delight, to have a runner.
Lago Delight is a former lightly raced speedy Encosta de Lago Melbourne Listed winner out of Sweet Delight, a Rancho Ruler winner of the W.H. Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley and the Cranbourne Cup. He stands at the Christoph Bruechert conducted Bombora Downs Stud, Bittern, Victoria.
His daughter, Peggy Jean's dam Lady of Love, is a half-sister to Prince of Dane, a Danehill winner of nine races and Group 3 second in South Africa. They are from Twig Amour, a Twig Moss winner and stakes placed half-sister to dual Group1 Lady Jakeo, dam of Red Arrow, a Red Ransom bred winner in Australia and America standing at Blue Gum, Euroa, Vic.
Bred by Ascot Heath Pty Ltd, NSW, sold in Sydney by Torryburn Stud at Torryburn in the lower Hunter for $46,000 at the Classic Sale to Triple Crown Syndications, Peggy Jean races out of the Gerald Ryan Stables for a big number of owners. They are small, however, compared to those who cheered her third dam, the Lunchtime filly Food for Love, on when she was a close second to Full On Aces in the 1981 Golden Slipper.
Trained at Muswellbrook by Pat Farrell and ridden by his apprentice Wayne Harris, Food for Love also at two won the Group 3 Magic Night, finished second in the Gimcrack and third in the Reisling. She was bred and raced by the George Ryder headed Australian Racing and Breeding Stables Ltd (ARABS), a company whose 1500 shareholders owned her.
Coincidentally, both the sires Mossman and Myboycharlie stand at the Vinery Stud in the Segenhoe Valley near Scone. The younger of these two sires, shuttler Myboycharlie, was the third top rated 2-year-old in Europe in 2007, a year he won three of four starts, including the Group1 Darley Prix Morny, and finished third in Ireland's Group1 National Stakes.
An Ireland foaled son, Bushranger, at two also won the Prix Morny and in addition England's Group1 Middle Park Stakes. He visits Eliza Park in Victoria.
Myboycharlie is from Dulceata, an Ireland foaled half-sister by champion miler Rousillon to imported Snowdrift, dam of brilliant Snippertson, Snowland and Portillo. - Brian Russell Media