Widden Stud’s gorgeous stallion Russian Camelot (IRE) is a showstopper in the looks department and his lightly raced four year-old Veyepee is stamped very much in his image and posted his fourth win from five starts at Mornington on Saturday.
Trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, Veyepee was having his second run back from a spell in the Benchmark 84 event over 1600m and crushed his rivals to win by nearly two legnths with Blake Shinn in the saddle.
Veyepee was a $140,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Dream Thoroughbreds / Bluegrass Bloodstock (FBAA) / Anthony Freedman Racing and is a half-brother to stakes-placed Ceccheti from Group III placed Savabeel mare Vandancer.
With four wins from five starts and prizemoney just shy of $180,000, connections will be looking to get his rating up as he works through his grades towards Black Type goals later in the spring.
Bred by Widden, Veyeypee is the third winner from three foals to race from Vandancer, a full sister to stakes-winner Queen Sabeel, the dam of Group III winner Sagunto. Going back further it is the family of the great front running champion of the 1980’s Vo Rogue.
Pedigree gurus will be fascinated with this pedigree for another reason as Veyepee has a unique 4 x 4 x 4 triple cross of champion sire Sadler’s Wells, which is not something you see every day and certainly not in Australia.
Widden Stud sold a full brother to Veyepee at Magic Millions last year to Matt Cumani for $125,000 and Vandancer was covered again last year by Russian Camelot after producing a colt by Bruckner and a filly by Doubtland.
The only sire son of champion staying sire Camelot at stud in Australia, Russian Camelot stands at Widden Victoria a fee of $11,000.
