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Triple Group 1 winning daughter of All Too Hard set to be sold in May
Triple Group 1 winner Forbidden Love (All Too Hard) is the latest addition to the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale which will be held on the Gold Coast in May.
Forbidden Love was bought by her former co-trainer Richard Freedman for $150,000 at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the draft of Bhima Thoroughbreds.
She went on to win eight of her 29 career starts and placed in a further six.
Her first Group 1 victory came in the Surround Stakes (1400m) at Randwick in February 2021 as a three-year-old. She then won the Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick last March before adding the George Ryder Stakes (1500m) to her resume two weeks later.
"She's an incredibly tough mare," Richard said.
"Always willing in every aspect of her work and always fronted up on race day to give her all, in all types of conditions.
"While she may not have won every start, you know she was giving everything she had to give every time she stepped out on the track.
"Her temperament was her best attribute and everyone loved having her in the stable.
"I went to the sale with a budget, working off a limited criteria, and she was the filly that ticked all the boxes. She not only fit the physical criteria, she is a lovely colour and had the temperament of a good filly. All Too Hard was starting to do well with his fillies and More Than Ready was already well established as a successful broodmare sire."
The five-year-old mare will be sold by Newgate Consignment.
"She was a great mare to have, a very tough mare," co-trainer Michael Freedman noted. "This time last year she was at the peak of her powers. When she was at her best she had this amazing acceleration. The kind of horse you love to train."
"The George Ryder (was my favourite Group 1 win), weight-for-age, over 1500 metres, which was probably at her outer distance range, but every Group One win of hers was great, but if I had to single one out that would be it."
"The fact that she had the ability to race up on speed, which she did in just about all her runs, and she had the ability to really accelerate off that."
"She is a big, strong mare with a beautiful deep girth on her, large hind-quarter, from a physical point of view she had all the attributes of what you look for in a good racehorse."
