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She’s Alight holds on in Jungle Classic
The late Cambridge Stud-based sire Tavistock (Montjeu) chalked up his 24th stakes winner as his daughter of She’s Alight (5 m ex Keep Alight by Keeper) broke through at stakes level for the first time in the Jungle Dawn Classic (Listed, 1400m) at Ascot on Saturday.
The Alan Mathews-trained five-year-old mare stayed on strongly to come on top of a thrilling battle with Special Choice (Redoute’s Choice), eventually beating her by a nose, while Chantrea (Puissance De Lune) was another neck away in third.
Purchased by John Chalmers Bloodstock Services at the 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock National Karaka Yearling Sale for NZ$65,000 from the Cambridge Stud draft, the mare is one of seven winners out of dual-winning Keeper (Danehill) mare Keep Alight.
Keep Alight is herself a daughter of dual Group 1 winner Our Tristalight (Sir Tristram) - the dam of 1998 New Zealand 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Danske (Danehill) and Listed scorer Eagle Rhythm (Rhythm), while further back this the same family 2011 New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Midnight Oil (Keeper).
She’s Alight’s sister - now named Our Tristabelle and she is unraced - was purchased by Platinum Thoroughbreds for NZ$45,000 New Zealand Bloodstock National Karaka Yearling Sale earlier this year.
Tavistock's progeny is headed by six Group 1 winners, including now Westbury Stud-based sire Tarzino, whose first runners hit the track this season. Tavistock died last year.
