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Filly hands late Windsor Park stallion Rip Van Winkle with 32nd stakes winner.

The late Windsor Park-based sire Rip Van Winkle (Galileo) was handed his 32nd stakes winner on Saturday as the Chris Waller-trained Subpoenaed (4 m ex Notice Received by O'Reilly) landed the Golden Pendant (Gr 2, 1400m) at Rosehill. 

Last seen finishing sixth in the Sheraco Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) on September 12, the mare bounced back finish powerfully to beat Emeralds (Sebring) by a length and a quarter, while Jen Rules (Redoute's Choice) came home another neck away in third.

"Tommy [Berry] pushed the button at the right time," Waller said.

"Those leaders just compounded over the concluding stages and she was dominant at the end."

The filly is one of two winners out of the five time-winning O'Reilly (Last Tycoon) mare Notice Received, who is herself a daughter of dual-winner Classique Royale (Royal Academy). 

Classique Royale herself is a half-sister to Group 3 winner Apple Danish (Danehill), while further back this is the same family as Aimee (Exceedingly Good), who landed the Ken Russell Memorial Classic (Gr 3, 1200m) in 2014. 

The filly becomes the 83rd stakes winner out of daughters of the late Waikato Stud-based sire O'Reilly. 

Rip Van Winkle's progeny is headed by Group 1-winning trio Te Akau Shark, Jennifer Eccles and Dick Whittington and died at Windsor Park in New Zealand last month.