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All Saints’ Eve lands Tibbie Stakes.
The late Sacred Falls (O'Reilly) sired his first stakes winner on Friday as his daughter All Saints' Eve (4 m ex Halloween by Encosta De Lago) added some valuable black-type to her CV in the Tibbie Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Newcastle.
Last seen winning over the same distance at Randwick on August 15, the John O'Shea-trained four-year-old mare finished with a flourish to beat Yamazaki (Real Saga) by three-quarters of a length, while Wandabaa (Wandjina) was another half a length away in third.
Raced in partnership that includes Waikato Stud, who stood her late sire Sacred Falls, and Anthony Mithen's Rosemont Stud, the filly is out of Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare Halloween, who has produced five other winners, from seven foals to race, headed by New Zealand 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Hasahalo (Savabeel), while she is also a sister her stablemate All Hallows Eve, who broke her maiden at Hawkesbury on September 10.
Hasahalo was sold to China Horse Club for a - at the time - online thoroughbred auction record price of NZ$670,000 on gavelhouse.com in March.
Halloween herself is out of Listed winner La Lagune (Danehill), making her a half-sister to Generous Nature (Carnegie) - the dam of Group 2 winner Savvy Nature (Savabeel) and Group 3 winner Addictive Nature (Savabeel).
The mare's 2018 colt by Savabeel (Zabeel) was purchased for Henry Dwyer Racing for NZ$230,000 at this year's New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka National Yearling Sale and in 2019 she produced another colt by Waikato Stud's champion stallion.
Halloween was purchased by Mark Chittack's Waikato Stud, who paid Hallmark Stud NZ$11,000 for the Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare at the 2013 National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale, and since the New Zealand operation have sold four of her progeny for an aggregate of NZ$584,000.
Multiple Group 1 winner Sacred Falls, whose oldest crop are four-year-olds, died from liver disease in December last year.
