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Truly Great shines in Peters Stakes
Arrowfield Stud-based sire Dundeel (High Chaparral) chalked up his 13th stakes winner on Saturday as his son Truly Great (5 g ex Truly Special by Jeune) landed the Peters Stakes (Gr 3, 1500m) at Ascot.
The Grant and Alana Williams-trained gelding was having his first try in stakes company and he proved too strong for his rivals, sauntering away to a length and a half win over Flow (Street Cry), while Moschard (Moshe) was the same distance away in third.
Raced and bred by prolific Western Australian breeder Bob Peters, the gelding is out of three time-winning Jeune (Kalaglow) mare Truly Special, making him a half-brother to Group 3 scorer Special Alert (Not A Single Doubt).
Truly Special herself is a daughter of Listed winner Reigning Belle (Military Plume).
Truly Special has been mated exclusively to Dundeel, producing colts by the sire in 2016 and 2017, while in 2018 she foaled a filly by the son of High Chaparral (Sadler’s Wells).
Dundeel stands at Arrowfield Stud for a fee of $66,000 (inc GST) and he is joined the roster this season by his son Castelvecchio, who is being offered to breeders at a fee of $33,000 (inc GST).
