Kerrie Tibbey’s Goodwood Farm often send a small, but select draft to the Magic Millions Adelaide yearling sale, and Saturday’s Listed Magic Millions Bright Shadow Stakes winner In Flight (Flying Artie) joins $11.9m earner Private Eye as another graduate of the farm purchased by the very same connections at the Adelaide sale.
After narrowly missing out of her first black type victory when second in the Listed Hawkesbury Gold Rush (1100m) behind Dragonstone (Mikki Isle) last start, trainer Joe Pride decided to send his consistent 4yo mare in Flight to Queensland, and the added bonus of a wet track arrived on race day.
Starting the favourite just ahead of Godolphin’s 5yo mare Kin (Impending) who had finished third in the Hawkesbury Gold Rush, the pair dominated the betting with only one other runner stating under double figure odds in the ten-horse field.
Racing in a mid-field position throughout, jockey Jason Collet needed to shoulder his way out as they came around the home turn, and once into clear running she accelerated strongly to pull clear and score by a length and three quarters.
Unlucky trapped wide throughout, the James Cummings trained Kin worked home into second, a length ahead of Midnight In Tokyo (Kobayashi).
Becoming the tenth individual stakes winner for Blue Gum Farm’s Flying Artie, who was also a yearling graduate of Goodwood Farm, In Flight is the first stakes winner and second stakes performer for the Listed-winning, imported Stravinsky mare Waveline (IRE) who was herself a $10,000 purchase for Tibbey via the Inglis Digital platform when carrying the daughter of Flying Artie.
A winner of the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes at three, Flying Artie has been represented by 10 stakes winners headlined by Group 1-winning sprinters Artorius and Asfoora and is listed to stand at a fee of $11,000 (inc. GST).
