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Group Treble For Redoute's Choice

12th Sep 2011

Racing And Sports - Saturday, 10 September 2011

King's Rose, Rekindled Interest and Master of Design delivered a stunning Group 2 treble and $420,000 prizemoney for champion sire Redoute's Choice at Moonee Valley and Rosehill on Saturday.

Rekindled Interest struck first, swooping wide from the back at Moonee Valley to beat Alcopop and favourite Whobegotyou in the $300,000 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes.

It was the 4YO gelding's third win from 10 starts and his second Group win at Moonee Valley, following last year's G1 AAMI Vase win over the Cox Plate distance of 2040 metres.

A return to Moonee Valley for this year's $3 million Cox Plate is now likely.

From the Irish-bred Rainbow Quest mare Rekindled Affair, Rekindled Interest - like his promising 3YO brother Rekindled Alliance and their 2YO sister - was born and raised at Bellerive Stud for owner-breeder Jonathan Munz.

Rekindled Affair, who died in December 2009, descended from Stolen Date, a half-sister to the great broodmare Best In Show, third dam of Redoute's Choice.

Master Of Design , bred at Arrowfield Stud by the Arrowleave Joint Venture, was sold from the Arrowfield draft for $2.1 million at the 2007 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

He was originally purchased by John Ferguson for Sheikh Mohammed but was later on sold to his current syndicate of owners.

Master Of Design became the 77th stakeswinner by Redoute's Choice after taking an early lead in the $200,000 G2 Sebring (Theo Marks) Stakes to hold off Torio's Quest by a half neck.

The lightly raced 6YO entire is from the Last Tycoon mare Urge To Merge, a winning sister to the dam of 2010 Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy and the dam of South African G1 winner Suntagonal.

Urge To Merge is foaling this spring to Charge Forward and will visit Arrowfield's new sire Beneteau.

Dr Gene Tsoi's high-class 4YO mare King's Rose (ex Nureyev's Girl by Nureyev) comp;leted the big Group treble for Redoute's Choice with her second Australian G2 victory, in the $200,000 Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley.

The 2010/11 New Zealand Filly of the Year has now won eight of her 14 starts and $542,474, including the 2010 NZ 1000 Guineas and last month's G2 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.

Her next target is the G1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington on 2 October, three weeks before the Cox Plate.

Redoute's Choice's 3YO daughters Hurriyet, from Milliyet and a sister to champion filly Samantha Miss, and Lipari, from the G1 winner Tully Thunder, added to huge day for their sire with their first black type performances by filling the minor placings in the Listed Morphettville Guineas.

These performances contributed to Redoute's Choice's outstanding start to 2011/12, which sees him on top of the Australian General Sires' list with 33 winners, three Group winners and prizemoney of more than $1.4 million after only 41 days of the season.