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Tycoon Ruler; Zabeel; Choisir, Sebring; Stratum
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TOUGH Tycoon Ruler gelding Jet Style made it back to back stakes wins with his success in Saturday's Listed Tattersall’s Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm.
Jet Style broke through for his sire’s maiden stakes success in the Listed Beach House Bar Handicap at his previous start and made it two black type wins in succession with a game win over Biggles on Saturday.
Jet Style was a $17,000 purchase at the 2006 Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses In Training Sale. The gelding has now won more than $230,000 with his latest success.
Tycoon Ruler (Last Tycoon x Sweet Delight, by Rancho Ruler) is the sire of 50 winners of 155 races with the six-year-old Jet Style (Tycoon Ruler x Over And Over, by Baryshnikov) boasting five wins and six placings from 32 starts.
Jet Style is out of the Baryshnikov mare Over And Over, a half sister to the stakes winner Varino (Varick) from the family of the Japanese G1 winner Eishin Deputy (French Deputy).
* THE nine-year-old veteran Fiumicino became the oldest stakes winners still racing by champion sire Zabeel when he won his first race in almost three years in the Listed ATC Frank Underwood Cup at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
Fiumicino, winner of the 2007 AJC Derby, had not won since his second G1 success in the 2009 BMW at Rosehill as a five-year-old.
Fiumicino (Zabeel x Latte by Maroof) was purchased by owner Nick Moratis at the 2005 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale from the draft of Cambridge Stud for NZ$425,000.
He has now raced 39 times for six wins and six thirds and has earned $3,007,025 prize money. He missed racing during 2010 and 2011 through injury.
His dam Latte is a daughter of the champion mare Horlicks (Three Legs), winner of six G1 races including the Japan Cup.
Horlicks is also the dam of 2000 Melbourne Cup winner Brew (Sir Trsitram) and G2 winner Bubble (Sir Tristram).
* CHOISIR colt Resistant collected a VOBVIs Gold bonus for his owners with his strong Caulfield win at his second start on Saturday.
Prepared by Mick Price, Resistant was fourth in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes at his first start and improved on that effort to score by a long head and collect $82,000 in prizemoney and bonus for his syndicate who paid $85,000 for him as a yearling.
Resistant (Choisir x Swinging Babe, by Encosta de Lago) was bred by Cathy Hains and is the first winner for the stakes-placed Encosta de Lago mare Swinging Babe.
* FLYING filly Australia Day gave her first crop sire Sebring his third victory when she streeted her opposition over 1050m at Morphettville on Saturday.
Sebring, a G1 Golden Slipper and G1 AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner, is also the sire of other early 2YO winners Bring A Ring (Sebring x Hennessy Waltz, by Hennessy) and Criterion (Sebring x Mica’s Pride, by BiteThe Bullet).
The Len Smith-trained Australia Day (Sebring x Helluva Party, by Dante’s Fury) is the first foal to race out of Sydney winner Helluva Party (Dante’s Fury x Formal Invitation, by Be My Guest).
The mare is a half-sister to stakes winners Hysterical (Wolverton) and Don Bellotto (Bellotto).
Australia Day cost $130,000 as a yearling and has yearling half-brother by Starcraft.
* GOLDEN Slipper winner Stratum followed up his G1 success with Southern Lord in the Levin Classic in NZ on Friday with a 2YO winner at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
All The Talk, a colt by Stratum from Weekend Gossip (Hussonet), showed the benefit of race experience to win his second start for trainer Gary Portelli.
All The Talk, a $40,000 yearling, had finished third to the highly rated youngster Charlie Boy on debut at Rosehill.
His dam Weekend Gossip is a half sister to the triple G1 winner Mentality and has also produced Straturbo, second at Canterbury on Friday night.
