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Congrats brings up 40th stakes winner.

In Good Health (5 m ex Fitness by More Than Ready) had no issues with a massive step in class when she landed the Heatherlie Stakes (Listed, 1700m) at Caulfield on Saturday and in the process provided former Vinery Stud shuttler Congrats (A.P. Indy) with his 40th stakes winner. 

Trained by Peter Moody, who was enjoying his first stakes winner since his return to the training ranks, the five-year-old mare beat Sircconi (Nicconi) by a nose, while Game Keeper (Fastnet Rock) was another quarter of a length away in third.

Moody said the win was 'very special' as the mare was part-owned by the Ramsey family, who had supported him from the start of his training career.

"And the Frith family from Roma in western Queensland, out in my country, it's so very gratifying," Moody said.

The mare is one of three winners out of the unraced More Than Ready (Southern Halo) mare Fitness and she becomes the first stakes winner in three generations of her family.

In Good Health's fourth dam produced Group 2 winner Leica Western (Best Western) - the dam of Australasian Oaks (Gr 1, 2000m) winner Leica Smile (At Talaq) and the grandam of Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) winner Redding (Nassipour). 

In 2018 Fitness produced a filly by Coolmore Stud's Triple Crown-winning shuttler American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) and she has most recently been covered by Vinery Stud-based sire Headwater (Exceed And Excel).

Congrats shuttled to Australia for four seasons and he now stands exclusively at Winstar Farm in Kentucky, where his fee in 2020 was advertised as US$10,000.