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Hungry Heart becomes Frankel’s third Australian stakes winner
The Chris Waller-trained Hungry Heart (2 f ex Harlech by Pivotal) booked her ticket for the Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) in three weeks’ time with a victory in the Sweet Embrace Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Randwick on Saturday and in the process handed British-based sire Frankel (Galileo) with his 50th stakes winner - and third in Australia.
The two-year-old filly flew down the centre of the track to beat long-time leader Stellar Pauline (Not A Single Doubt) by three quarters of a length.
“She is obviously a very talented horse to win like this today and I think there’s more to come,” Waller said.
“We have thought she is a very good filly for a while. We haven’t complicated things.
“We thought enough of her to send her to Melbourne thinking we might be a Blue Diamond chance but we didn’t put too much pressure on her.
“She ran a good second and we thought, we’d leave the Blue Diamond and see how she ran today and she would tell us where she wants to go.”
The winner of the Sweet Embrace earns an automatic Slipper start and Hungry Heart will head straight to the $3.5 million race in three weeks.
The filly was purchased by Damon Gabbedy’s Belmont Bloodstock for $300,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the Yulong draft and she is out of British-bred Pivotal (Polar Falcon) mare Harlech, who was herself purchased by Seamus Mills Bloodstock and Yulong at the 2016 Tattersalls July Sale for 60,000gns. Yulong subsequently offered her carrying the filly at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Broodmare Sale and she failed to make her $540,000 reserve.
The filly’s third dam is the Group 3-winning Beraysim (Lion Cavern), who produced five winners headed by Listed winner Zoowraa (Azamour) who is the dam of Harlech. Further back this is the family of Grade 3 winner Ribbon (Her Majesty) - the dam of Grade 1 winner Risen Star (Secretariat) and Listed-winning pair Woven Silk (Danzig) and Silk Braid (Danzig).
Yulong will offer a Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) half-brother to the filly at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling and he will go through the ring catalogued as Lot 482.
The filly joins Miss Fabulass and Finche as the Juddmonte Farms-based stallion Frankel’s other stakes winners in Australia and there are nine yearlings set to go through the ring at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, which begins its two-day run on April 7.
Pivotal is one of the best broodmare sires in the world and Harlech becomes the stallion’s 105th stakes-producing daughter.
