West Australia’s favourite son Playing God added a new stakes-winner to his tally on Sunday when six year-old gelding Holy Enchantment scored a dominant win as favourite in the $150,000 Listed Pinjarra Cup (2300m).
Trained by Stephen Miller and ridden by Brad Parnham, Holy Enchantment was coming off a last start third in the Bunbury Cup and ran right up to the at form to win by nearly two lengths taking his overall record to five wins and 11 placings from 29 starts with prizemoney in excess of $476,000.
A $36,000 Magic Millions Perth purchase from Mungrup Stud for Millfields Park, Holy Enchantment is the bets of two winners from unraced McFlirt mare Majantic, a full sister to stakes-winner Global Flirt.
Majantic has a yearling filly and weanling colt by Playing God and was covered by Splintex last year.
Holy Enchantment is the 18th stakes-winner for Playing God, whose fortunes are on the rise with his yearlings selling for up to $625,000 at the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale this year.
Standing at Darling View Thoroughbreds, Playing God runs at 69% winners to runners and 10.4% SW to runner. He was super popular last spring covering his biggest ever book of 144 mares at a fee of $33,000. That’s a far cry from his early years at stud when he stood for as little as $4,400 and covered an average of around 50 mares in each of his first four seasons.
