Karuta Queen’s Half-brother Another Brave Heart
30-01-2012
KARUTA QUEEN, the Neville Layt (Queanbeyan) trained Turangga stud bred Not a Single Doubt filly who has turned in some dazzling front running displays in recording six wins, including appearances in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast (Magic Millions 2YO Classic), and who was runner up to Black Caviar in the Schillaci at Caulfield last spring, looks set to rocket to more glory in the autumn.
The 3-year-old, one bought at the Gold Coast yearling sales for $30,000, looks poised for more success when she returns to racing in Sydney, following a trial win by a spectacular 17.5 lengths at the Canberra meeting on January 17. The company was modest, but she covered the 900m in 0:50.64 and the 600m in 33.33. Her effort came 24 hours after her yet to be raced juvenile half-brother Brave Prince suggested he could be another brave hearted performer for champion Queensland sire Show a Heart (Glenlogan Park) with a1000m trial win at Perth’s Belmont Park. In the all conquering Peters Investment ownership and trained by Grant Willliams, Brave Heart was purchased for $230,000 at last year’s Perth Magic Millions yearling sale.
Sold for $55,000 carrying the foal that was to become Brave Heart at the Magic Millions National mare sale in 2009, the dam Card Queen is now owned the Durham Lodge stud at Muchea in Western Australia. She has been to their resident Danehill sire Blackfriars in each of the last three seasons, producing a filly in 2010 and a colt late last August. A very fast filly who won five metropolitan races up to 1200m, including a Blue Diamond Prelude, and third placed in four Listed stakes, Card Queen is by one of the fastest horses produced in Australia, Final Card. In winning six sprint races, he included what is now known as the Patinack Farms Classic at Flemington in equal course record time for 1200m.
Deceased in 2006, Final Card was a half-brother to Gold Ace (set new record time for the Flemington1200m) and by Elounda Bay, an Australasian Champion Sprinter who won the VRC Newmarket over 1200m at Flemington in a new track best. Elounda Bay’s sire Zephyr Bay and his sire Biscay were two of them most scintillating speedsters to grace Australian racing. The value of having Final Card in pedigrees was shown again on Saturday (January 21) when the Mark Kavanagh trained Happy Angel lowered the1000m track record to 0:56.72 in winning at Morphettville. Now winner of five races, all short of 1200m, she is bred for speed, being by the Swettenham stud bred Rory’s Jester sire Happy Giggle and from Angel’s Wings, a daughter of one of Danzig’s best sprinters, Anabaa, and the Final Card stakes placed Happy Card.
A winner of four stakes in Melbourne in his six starts at two, Happy Giggle started his stud career in South Australia, but is now at Mornmoot, Whittlesea,Victoria on $4,400 (2011 fee). Also represented by a winner last week in Singapore, Happy Giggle’s 145 winners include progeny successful Flemington, Caulfield, Moonee Valley, Sandown, Rosehill, Morphettville, Cheltenham, Launceston, Hobart, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia.
Happy Angel is a sister to Giggling Angel (ten starts, won by 6.5 lengths Murray Bridge 900m, second Moonee Valley, third Morphettville) and a half-sister to lot 313 in the catalogue for the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling sale on March 13-14. She is by Mugharreb (USA), a stakes winning son of the Mr. Prospector sire Gone West.
Courtesy of Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service
