When you breed as many horses as John Singleton does you would not think you would have to be buying yearlings, but one that he did purchase in 2019 broke the ice as a short priced favourite at Taree on Tuesday.
A flashy chestnut with a white blaze reminiscent of so many of the good Not a Single Doubt fillies, La Girl started her career with a couple of runs for the Lindsay Park team last year finishing fourth on debut in the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes and fifth in the MM Ballarat Clockwise Classic.
Transferred to Kris Lees, La Girl was third on July 1 at Randwick on the Kensington track when resuming from a lengthy spell and always looked a good thing in the 1250 metre maiden a Taree.
She was determined to the line for Andrew Gibbons to score a nose win over Royal Charge with four lengths back to the next horse.
A $360,000 Magic Millions purchase for Singleton’s Strawberry Hill Stud from the Lime Country Thoroughbreds draft, La Girl was bred by Makybe and is the third winner from La Fluorescent, a half-sister to Group II winners Savvy Nature and Addictive Nature.
The family has a neat mix of speed and stamina and also features Group I winning filly Hasahalo, so La Girl will prove a good addition to the Strawberry Hill broodmare band in the future.
Lime Country Thoroughbreds sold the current yearling, a colt by More than Ready (USA), from La Fluorescent on behalf of Makybe at Magic Millions this year to Spendthrift Australia for $900,000 and she has a weanling filly to follow by Zoustar and is back in foal to him again.
