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OAKS WIN A PREMIER MOMENT FOR MAKYBE

7th Nov 2007

ARAPAHO MISS ($22,500 2006 Melbourne Premier, 3 f Danehill Dancer (Ire) - Happy Heart (FR) outstayed the best three-year-old fillies in the country to win the 2007 VRC Crown Oaks Gr1 and in the process gave high profile racehorse owner Tony Santic another dimension in the thoroughbred business - as a successful breeder and seller of top class racehorses.

ARAPAHO MISS became the second stakes winner of the Flemington Melbourne Cup Carnival to be bred and sold through William Inglis & Son by Santic's breeding operation based in Gnarwarre Victoria. This seasons best two-year-old EXCEEDINGLY GOOD ($400,000 2007 Easter) is also a graduate from the property formerly known as Smytzer's Lodge but renamed Makybe after his history making mare Makybe Diva, a three time winner of the Melbourne Cup Gr1.

ARAPAHO MISS was part of an inaugural draft of yearlings to be offered at sale by Santic. She graduated from the same Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale as WEEKEND HUSSLER ($80,000 MELB. PREMIER), who has dominated his age group this spring.

Victorian Inglis Director Peter Heagney commented " Tony has made a significant commitment to breeding for the commercial market and this early success bodes well for his Makybe operation and for the momentum the Victorian Breeding Industry continues to build."

Inglis provided the only sale graduates to win stakes races on Oaks Day via a trio of fillies appropriately containing ‘Miss' in their names with MISS MARIELLE ($330,000 2006 Easter)and MISS JUDGEMENT ($360,000 2007 EASTER B'MARE) taking out the two stakes races that followed the Oaks.

Leading owner and breeder Tony Santic