Talented sprinter Ancestry has a great winning strike rate and found his best form at Moonee Valley on Saturday to lead all the way and win the Listed MVRC Abell Stakes (1200m) with a bold front running performance.
A four year-old gelding by little known Kooringal Stud based sire The Brothers War (USA), Ancestry closed out his spring campaign with a Listed success on Oaks Day, but was out of the placings when resuming from a spell in the Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate last month.
Dropped back in grade for this assignment by his trainer Phillip Stokes, Ancestry was perfectly rated in front by Michael Poy and was always in control before powering clear to win by more than two lengths.
“That was an easy watch. After the first 100m he had it won, it was the Ancestry of old,” said a delighted Phillip Stokes.
“He’s back and now we can build on that.”
The most expensive yearling ever sired by The Brothers War, Ancestry was an $80,000 Magic Millions purchase for Dalziel Racing/Peter Moody Racing from the Kooringal Stud draft and has the overall record of nine wins from 15 starts with prizemoney in excess of $520,000.
Bred by Kooringal Stud, Ancestry is a half-brother to Group II winner Diamond Tathagata, so is the second stakes-winner for his dam Maltese, who has done an exceptional job with five foals to race all winners.
A half-sister to stakes-winner Jestarella Boy by Tale of the Cat (USA), Maltese has a weanling colt by Kooringal Stud’s exciting young dual Group I winning sire Prized Icon and is back in foal to him again.
Ancestry is the first stakes-winner for The Brothers War, a stakes-winning son of champion US sire War Front, that still stands at Kooringal on a fee on application basis.
