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Sammy breaks through at Wyong.
Triple Group 1-winning mare Samantha Miss' (Redoute's Choice) broodmare record is nearly as impressive reading as her racing CV with her son Sammy (3 c Medaglia d'Oro - Samantha Miss by Redoute's Choice) making it a perfect six winners from six runners as he shed his maiden status at the third attempt when landing the Australian Bloodstock Maiden Handicap (1200m) at Wyong on Friday.
Bred and owned by Strawberry Hill, the three-year-old colt ran twice as a two-year-old finishing third and second respectively and he put that experience to good use on Friday when beating Mashrabiya (Teofilo) by a length, while Princess Glamour (Lord Kanaloa) finished another three-quarters of a length further back in third.
Samantha Miss was purchased by her subsequent trainer Kris Lees for $1.5 million at the 2007 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and she would go on to win seven races, headed by three Group 1s; Champagne Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) and VRC Oaks (Gr 1, 2500m). Upon retirement the daughter of Redoute's Choice (Danehill) was offered at the 2009 Inglis Easter Broodmare Sale and was purchased by John Singleton for $3,850,000.
Her six winners are headed by Miss Fabulass (Frankel), whose biggest victory came when emulating her mother when winning the 2018 edition of the Tea Rose Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m).
In 2019 the mare foaled another filly by Juddmonte Farms stallion Frankel (Galileo) and was covered by Yarraman Park's star stallion I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) last November.
Samanatha Miss herself is out of Milliyet (Zabeel), making her a sister to Adelaide Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Cronus (Zabeel) and Group 2 winner Pravda (Zabeel), who finished second in the New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m).
Medaglia d'Oro (El Prado) shuttled to Australia for ten seasons, but did not return in 2018 and he resides at Darley's Jonabell Farm base in Kentucky, where his fee in 2020 was advertised as US$200,000.
