Cavalry Rose Has a Golden Slipper Heritage

02-02-2012

CAVALRY ROSE, the winner on debut at Rosehill Gardens for a Triple Crown Syndicate and the Gerald Ryan stables of this year’s $250,000 Inglis Classic for 2-year-olds who graduated from their Classic sale, in doing so showed all the courage and ability that saw her sire Charge Forward and paternal ‘half-brother’ Headland each exhibited in finishing second in the Golden Slipper.

Now a prominent Arrowfield stud sire who went on to win the San Domenico and The Galaxy before retirement after the autumn at three, the Red Ransom product Charge Forward went within a short head of Slipper glory when it was won in new race record time by Dance Hero in 2004.  He went close to attoning for this loss when his first crop daughter Headway finished second to the More Than Ready gelding Phelan Ready in 2009.

Headway had earlier won the Sweet Embrace and later as an early 3-year-old was successful in the Group 1 Ascot Vale.  Now owned by the young Victorian powerhouse Makybe (Tony Santic), Headway delivered a colt on August 14 last season by Redoute’s Choice and went to Fastnet Rock on September 11.  Headway (dam by Flying Spur) is bred on similar lines to Cavalry Rose, both of them being from mares by Danehill sires. Danehill is also the sire of the dam of Solar Charged, the Charge Forward filly who finished sixth in the 2010 Slipper after taking the AJC Kindergarten. At three she won the Group 3 MRC Thoroughbred Club Stakes and in Sydney finished second in the San Domenico and Silver Shadow and third in the Challenge Stakes.

Although Cavalry Rose, a filly bred by G. Briscoe and sold through the Widden Stud at the Classic sale for $85,000, is a mid August foal and went into the race with a four lengths January 6 trial win, she showed a lot of immaturity and looked to have lost her chance in the last 100m. She picked herself up and surged to victory.  Cavalry Rose is the result of the mating of Charge Forward with Alberton Rose (deceased last September), a handy sprinter in New Zealand by the Patrick Hogan bred Danehilll sire Danske, a winner of the New Zealand 2000 Guineas and Auckland Guineas, and from the Straussbrook Listed 2-year-old winner who stood in New Zealand.

A son of the Bletchingly sprinter Opera Prince, Straussbrook won the STC Pago Stakes, STC George Ryder Stakes and Canterbury Stakes, finished second in the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes, third in the STC Todman Slipper Trial and AJC All-Aged Stakes and fifth in the Golden Slipper.

 Courtesy of Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service 

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