Brazen Beau featured with a stakes double on Saturday and for a sire noted for his sprinters it was interesting that both of his new stakes-winners won over a trip and Mating Call, who won the Group III SAJC Auraria Stakes (1800m) is headed next to the Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks (2000m).
The Godolphin homebred colt Diameter was the first stakes-winner of the day for Brazen Beau taking out the Listed ATC Fernhill Mile (1600m) at Randwick, read about him here.
Trained by Dan Clarken and Oopy MacGillivray, three year-old filly Mating Call was competitive in some good fillies races in Melbourne last spring running third in the Group II VRC Edward Manifold Stakes and fifth in the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas.
She was third up from a spell into this race and produced a strong finish for apprentice Emily Finnegan to charge home and score a half length win over stakes-winning Ghaiyyath (RE) filly Freedom Flame.
Mating Call is a South Australian homebred for Robert Hill-Smith’s Bacchus Bloodstock and with two wins from seven starts and prizemoney in excess of $174,000 is a filly on the up.
While her sire Brazen Beau is very much a speed influence, Mating Call has plenty of stamina to call on from her female family.
She is the best of three winners from five foals to race from stakes-placed High Chaparral (IRE) mare Monopole, who won up to 2100m and is from Group III ATC Adrian Knox Stakes winner Raise, a full sister to Group I ATC Australian Oaks winner Rena’s Lady.
Monopole had a yearling colt by State of Rest (IRE) sell in the Cornerstone Stud draft at Magic Millions Adelaide this year for $80,000 to Angas River Contractors Pty Ltd and she had a colt last spring by Royal Meeting (IRE) before going to Move to Strike.
Mating Call and Diameter take Darley based Brazen Beau to 32 stakes-winners and the filly is his first stakes-winner at a distance beyond 1600m which is not that surprising when you look at her pedigree and see her first two dams are by Epsom Derby winner High Chaparral and Victoria Derby winner Arena.
