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Second stakes win for son of Dundeel

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Entente (4 g Dundeel - Nextess by Stratum) added a second stakes race to his record with an impressive win in the Albury Cup (Listed, 2000m) on Friday.

Victorious in the Carbine Club Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m) at Randwick in April last year, the gelding hit the front after the home turn and stayed on strongly to beat The Lord Mayor (Rock ‘N’ Pop) by two lengths. The Doctor’s Son (Dr Doute’s) was another nose away in third. 

Entente was purchased by Shaun Dwyer Thoroughbred Racing for $105,000 at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in 2018 from the Bombora Downs draft and he is out two time-winning mare Nextess (Stratum) - making the gelding a three-quarters brother to Group 3 placed High 'n' Dry (High Chaparral). 

The gelding is the first stakes winner for four generations of his family, while his second dam Regal Tess (Bluebird) and third dam Knight’s Contessa (Eldag) - were both Listed-placed. 

Nextess died in 2017 having produced just two foals. 

Dundeel, who has three crops of racing age, has sired five Group 1 winners; Atyaab, Castelvecchio, Super Seth, Yourdeel and Truly Great. 

The Arrowfield Stud-based stallion has 14 lots catalogued at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, which gets underway on April 6.