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$1,000,000 filly scores at Bendigo.
The Tony and Calvin McEvoy-trained Enood (3 f Deep Field - Charming Estelle by Redoute's Choice) broke her maiden at Kilmore on Thursday, scoring a narrow victory in The Bendigo Club Maiden Plate (1100m).
A $1,000,000 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale purchase by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum from the draft of Arrowfield Stud, Enood beat Bethpage (Reward For Effort) by a nose with a length and a quarter back to Groovy Kinda Love (Smart Missile) in third.
"She's finally broken her maiden which takes a bit of pressure off," said McEvoy's stable representative Michael Shepherdson. "She's always shown good ability but lost her way last prep so Tony and Calvin decided to give her a good spell and let her mature."
Enood, who was having her seventh start and first since last August on Thursday, is the fourth foal out of Charming Estelle (Redoute's Choice) who is herself a daughter of Group 3 winner Estelle Collection (Stravinsky) making her a sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Lankan Rupee.
Charming Estelle has also produced the Listed winner Manhattan Street (Manhattan Rain) and was most recently covered by Arrowfield Stud's Dundeel (High Chaparral) last September having missed to Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) the previous year. Her Dundeel filly, now named Lankan Gold and in training with Anthony Freedman, was sold for $500,000 to Dean Hawthorne at last year's Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Enood becomes the tenth winner for her sire, the late Deep Impact (Sunday Silence), in Australia and New Zealand. From 23 runners he has produced five stakes performers headed by the Group 1 winners Fierce Impact, Tosen Stardom and Real Impact.
As a broodmare sire he is beginning to leave his mark globally with his daughters having produced 212 winners, seven stakes winners, including Grade 1 winner Kiseki (Rulership), and seven further stakes performers.
