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Night Raid wins Atlantic Jewel Stakes
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Night Raid (3 f ex Raid by Pins) ran out a ready winner of Atlantic Jewel Stakes (Listed, 1200m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday and in the process handed Coolmore Stud’s second season sire Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro) with his second stakes winner and first in Australia.
The three-year-old filly came into the race off the back of breaking her maiden at Tatura on August 15 and she took the step into stakes company in her stride, beating Aidensfield (Dissident) by a long-neck, while Dirty Thoughts (So You Think) finished another nose away in third.
"It was a really good win today, it looked a bit tricky on the corner but she's good enough to win," Kent Jnr told Racing.com.
"It was a good test (for her). A Good (3) track, quality fillies that have done it before. She measured up. Hopefully we're looking at a (Thousand) Guineas campaign now, that would be the plan.
"We've got a few Vancouvers at home and we had the feeling that they would like a mile.
"This filly's dam was second in a Group 1 sprint in New Zealand. We're optimistic that she'll be scopey enough to be a miler."
Purchased by Sheamus Mills and Mick Price Racing for $160,000 at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the draft of her breeder Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, the filly is out of Listed winner and Group 1 placed mare Raid (Pins), making her a half-sister to Group 3-placed Mujallad (Redoute’s Choice) and Listed-placed Tarismo (Testa Rossa).
Raid herself is a sister to Purely Spectacular - the dam of dual Group 1 winner and now Widden Stud-based sire Stratum Star (Stratum) and dual Group 3 winner Prague (Redoute’s Choice), who finished second behind King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice) in the Sires' Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) last season.
After slipping to Exceed And Excel (Danehill) and missing to Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice), Raid has most recently been served by Darley-based sire Shooting To Win (Northern Meteor) last November.
The Coolmore-based son of Medaglia d’Oro’s (El Prado) first crop includes South African Grade 2 winner Mount Pleasant and he finished last season in Australia with 11 winners. Vancouver will stand the 2020 season at Coolmore Stud for $30,250 (inc GST), having stood the 2019 term for $44,000 (inc GST).
