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Group 1 Oaks Win Highlights Scone Treble

20th Mar 2010

Graduates of the Scone Select Yearling Sale took the spotlight on racing’s centre stage today, with a stakes treble for the sale highlighted by Small Minds leading home a quinella for Patinack Farm in the Group 1 Schweppes Oaks at Morphettville.

SMALL MINDS ($48,000 2008 Scone, 3f Canny Lad-Princess Marigold) was a shock winner of the Listed Adelaide Guineas last start and punters paid the price again for not taking notice of that as she went around at $31 before winning today.

The filly was prepared for sale by Jacaranda Park Stud and provided a breakthrough Group 1 win for Patinack Farm’s head trainer John Thompson, who also landed the quinella in the 2006m feature.

Runner-up No Evidence Needed has a Fusaichi Pegasus half-sister to be offered by Princes Farm as Lot 445 at next month’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Small Minds' win followed a Scone double at Rosehill earlier in the day.

HOT DANISH ($32,000 2005 Scone, 6m Nothin’ Leica Dane-Hot ‘n’ Breezy), who was sold by Holbrook Thoroughbreds, has been a longtime flagbearer for the Scone Yearling Sale and she added further to her outstanding record when proving too good in the Group 2 Canterbury Stakes.

It was the mare’s 12th win and took her earnings beyond the $1.2million mark. A breakdown of her wins underlines what a wonderful mare she has been for connections: 4 Group 2’s, 1 Group 3 and 4 Listed races.

Les Bridge will now seek to rectify the one remaining blemish on her scorecard – a Group 1 victory, having placed twice previously at the highest level.

Earlier, WELKOM GOLD ($30,000 2006 Scone, 5g Johannesburg-With Ease Louise) took out his first stakes race when proving too speedy in the Listed Maurice McCarten Stakes.

The five-year-old Southern Cross Breeders graduate is now the winner of five races and $240,000 in prizemoney.

The 2010 Scone Yearling Sale will be held at White Park, Scone, on May 13.