What an incredible broodmare band would be made from the contestants of the two Group races for mares on Saturday, the Group II Let's Elope Stakes at Flemington and the Group II Sheraco Stakes at Kembla Grange.
The Emirates Park homebred Marboosha may not boast the sexiest pedigree, but she has few peers on the score of consistency.
The furthest the daughter of Dream Ahead (USA) has finished back in nine starts is her two and three-quarter length fourth behind Isotope, Odeum and Bella Nipotina in the Listed Darby Munro Stakes (1200m) on Golden Slipper day.
Marboosha meets up with an old foe in the Group II Sheraco Stakes (1200m) at Kembla.
The top-class Written Tycoon mare Written Beauty finished in front of Marboosha at Canterbury in June last year before edging out Marboosha in the Group III Red Roses Stakes (1100m) at Flemington on Victoria Oaks day.
Following a spell, Marboosha opened her stakes account in the Listed VRC Incognitus Stakes (1100m) on the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap and Group 1 Australian Cup undercard at Flemington in February.
After her fourth in the Darby Munro and second in the Group III PJ Bell Stakes at Randwick, Marboosha won the Group III Gold Coast Guineas (120m) in May.
On Saturday, the 4yo Peter and Paul Snowden-trained mare resumes off the back of three rather uninspiring barrier trials.
In four starts first up, she has three wins and a second.
Emirates Park's association with the family dates back to the imported Diesis mare Mahboobah (USA).
From six named foals, Mahboobah (USA) has just two minor winners from five to race.
The lone foal not to reach the track was Boom Boom Baby, a daughter of the unheralded Emirates Park stallion True Hero (USA).
Boom Boom Baby put some much-needed class into the family, leaving four winners from five to race headed by the Group III VRC Maribyrnong Plate winner and $570,500 earner Boomwaa (Mutawaajid).
But there is little doubt the real class came from Boom Boom Baby's only non-winner Boom Time Savings.
A daughter of Secret Savings, Boom Time Savings kick-started her career with two seconds at Randwick, the latter relegating the future 4-time Group 1 winner Danleigh into third place.
Trained by Graeme Rogerson, Boom Time Savings then chased home Plagerize in the Group II Silver Slipper.
At her next start, the daughter of Secret Savings started the second favourite behind Miss Finland in the Group II Reisling Stakes. While she finished in front of the champion, she again found one too good in Pure Energy, with the brilliant Gold Edition back in third.
Boom Time Savings closed out her career with a fourth behind Miss Finland in the Group 1 Golden Slipper.
If she was the hope of the side, Boom Time Savings has, to date, proved slightly disappointing at stud.
When she was sold barren for just $2,000 at the 2019 Inglis Great Southern Sale, she had three winners from four starters headed by the Tralagon Cup winner Severn Road (Al Maher).
But her unraced daughter Boomex (Exceed And Excel) was about to inject new life into the family as the dam of Marboosha and the talented, Ciaron Maher-David Eustace-trained, 3yo filly Burum (Artie Schiller) who won her only start last season at Mornington.
Burum carries the Emirates Park silks, having failed to make her $100,000 reserve at the 2020 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale from the draft of Stockwell Thoroughbreds.
It was enough encouragement for the new owners of Boom Time Savings to send her to American Pharoah (USA) in 2019 and Justify (USA) last year, but sadly with no result.
Boomex has had better luck. She has a 2yo Flying Artie colt named Boominartie, purchased by Ciaron Maher Bloodstock for $130,000 out of the Emirates Park draft at the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
After foaling a No Nay Never colt last spring, Boomex was covered by I Am Invincible.
If the immediate family of Mahboobah (USA) seems a touch light on for stakes-winners, it does not take much delving to learn that this was a family revered in the latter part of the 20th century.
Her third dam Chris Evert (Swoon's Son), was a superstar on the track earning wins at the elite level in the Coaching Club American Oaks, Aqueduct Acorn Stakes and Belmont Mother Goose Stakes.
Her daughter Six Crowns (Secretariat) is the dam of the champion Chief's Crown (USA), who spent a couple of seasons at Arrowfield Stud, and the dual Grade 1 winner Classic Crown (Mr Prospector).
Chris Evert (USA) is the second dam of Grade II winner Revasser and is the third dam of multiple Grade I winner Sightseek, Yellow Ribbon Stakes winner Tates Creek, and Prix de la Foret (FR-I) winner Etoile Montante.
The family earned Group 1 honours in Australia in 2019 when Revasser's grandson Kings Will Dream (Casamento) captured the Turnbull Stakes.
Chris Evert's half-sister All Rainbows (Bold Hour) won three stakes races and was Grade I-placed.
She is the dam of 1988 American champion 3yo filly Winning Colors (Caro), one of only three fillies to win the Kentucky Derby. She is also the second dam of 2003 Japan Cup winner Tap Dance City (Pleasant Tap).
Marboosha's 4-time Group 1 winning sire Dream Ahead (USA) spent seven seasons (2012-2018) shuttling to Emirates Park.
The son of Diktat proved a reliable source of winners without siring the top horse needed to keep him commercial.
Dream Ahead (USA) has built a more impressive resume north of the equator with Group 1 winners Al Wukair (IRE), Donjuan Triumphant (IRE), Dream Of Dreams (IRE), and Glass Slippers (GB ).
