The first day of the big two day Scone meeting on Friday attracted a large crowd to watch some great racing with a blueblood filly by I Am Invincible starting a short priced favourite before going on to win by daylight.
Trained by Paul Messara and Leah Gavranich, Chains of Love was first up from a spell in the 1100m Class 1 event following two runs at Scone last spring that produced a debut second and then a brilliant win.
Tuned up with a recent trial, Chains of Love was ridden by Aaron Bullock and made a mess of her rivals when careering away to win by four and a half lengths, so has now won two of three starts with the potential of a lot more to come.
Retained to race by her breeders, John Messara, John Leaver and Alan Jones, Chains of Love is a full sister to stakes-winner Waltz on By and half-sister to Group II placed Duvana being the fifth winner from five foals to race from Group I MRC Thousand Guineas winner Stay With Me.
Stay With Me was bred by the same partnership at Arrowfield and she is the best of seven winners from Champion 2YO and 3YO Filly Miss Finland, whose G1 wins came in the Golden Slipper, Australian Guineas, Thousand Guineas, VRC Oaks and Arrowfield Stud Stakes.
Arrowfield sold a yearling Dundeel filly from Stay With Me at Inglis Easter this year for $525,000 to ARJB Consulting / de Burgh Equine and after missing the following year appears to now be in foal to Too Darn Hot (GB).
