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All Hallows' Eve shows her class in James HB Carr Stakes
All Hallows’ Eve (3 f ex Halloween by Encosta de Lago) emerged out of her family’s shadow and announced herself a high-class filly in her own right when she landed James HB Carr Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) at Randwick on Saturday and in the process became the fourth stakes winner for her late Waikato Stud-based sire Sacred Falls (O’Reilly).
Last seen running sixth in the PJ Bell Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Randwick on April 10, the John O’Shea-trained filly stayed on strongly to beat Elizabeel (Power) by a quarter of a length, while I Say Hello (Iffraaj) was another neck away in third.
"She's had not a lot of luck with barriers and today is the first time she drew a gate where she could get a nice run in the race and she has been crying out for 1400 metres,” said O’Shea.
“This is the race we set her for when she came back into work so it's a nice little plan to come together and it's just testament to a wonderful group of people we have at home doing all the work. There's a young French lass called Ali who rides her every day and she's done a great job with her."
Of the filly’s future plans, O’Shea said: "We will just see how she is. To be honest, she's still in tremendous form so we will just see how she is when she gets home and what's available for her but she's got a very bright future."
Raced in partnership that includes Waikato Stud, who stood her late sire Sacred Falls, and Anthony Mithen’s Rosemont Stud, the filly is out of Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare Halloween, who has produced six other winners, including her Group 3-placed stablemate and sister All Saints’ Eve and New Zealand 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Hasahalo (Savabeel).
Hasahalo was sold to China Horse Club for a - at the time - online thoroughbred auction record price of NZ$670,000 on gavelhouse.com in March last year.
Halloween herself is out of Listed winner La Lagune (Danehill), making her a half-sister to Generous Nature (Carnegie) - the dam of Group 2 winner Savvy Nature (Savabeel) and Group 3 winner Addictive Nature (Savabeel).
The mare’s 2018 colt by Savabeel (Zabeel) was purchased for Henry Dwyer Racing for NZ$230,000 at last year’s New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka National Yearling Sale and he is now called Lampkin Lane and is unraced. In 2019 she produced another colt by Waikato Stud’s champion stallion.
Halloween has proved a shrewd purchase by Mark Chittack’s Waikato Stud, who paid Hallmark Stud NZ$11,000 for the Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare at the 2013 National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale, and since the New Zealand operation have sold four of her progeny for an aggregate of NZ$584,000.
Sacred Falls’ quartet of stakes winners are headed by this season’s New Zealand 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Aegon and the stallion died in 2019.
