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Provides Zoustar half-sister with a timely update ahead of Karaka next week

The Pinecliff Racing-owned Butter Chicken (3 f Savabeel - Scintillula by Galileo) provided her Zoustar (Northern Meteor) half-sister with a timely update ahead of her being offered at Book 1 of Karaka 2021 next week, when she scored a dominant victory in Wednesday’s 3YO Maiden Plate (1600m) at Pakenham. 

Trained by Grahame Begg, the filly was having her second career start after finishing a close second on debut at Cranbourne 13 days earlier. On Wednesday, she was settled last and started to make her move rounding the home turn. Into the straight she quickened well to pull right away in the closing stages for a good win. Write The Score (Written Tycoon) finished a length and three quarters away in second with another three quarters of a length back to The Admiral (Pride Of Dubai) in third. 

Butter Chicken was bought for NZ$800,000 by Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock at Book 1 of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2019 National Yearling Sale from the draft of Pencarrow Stud, who will offer the filly’s aforementioned half-sister as Lot 94 https://www.nzb.co.nz/sales/21kaa/94 at next week. 

Butter Chicken is the second foal out of the Irish Group 3 winner Scintillula (Galileo) who also finished second in the 2012 Moyglare Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 7f). Her second dam is Scribonia (Danehill) who produced six other winners including stakes winning Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) pair Cuis Ghaire and The Major General.