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Shadwell’s Juvenile Entisaar Sprints to Group 1 Victory

24th May 2015

In a busy afternoon of feature racing at Scottsville in South Africa, Inglis Easter graduate Entisaar showed she has an exciting future in winning the Group 1 Allan Robertson Championship over 1200m.

Entisaar (More Than Ready x Purrpurrlena) has won three of her four career starts, which have all been at Stakes level. The two-year-old filly is trained by Mike de Kock and races in the famed blue and white colours of Shadwell Stud owned by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum.

The daughter of More Than Ready was one of the top chances in the race along with stablemate and fellow Inglis graduate Shaama, but Entisaar used her great race experience to good advantage dashing away over the final furlong to a strong victory over Princess Royal and Madame Dubois.

“She [Entisaar] looked really good in the ring and she was baulked for a run for a while which probably suited her with a lot of speed on upfront and she kicked on well. She is by More Than Ready which do tend to go on and are fairly decent sprinters,” said Mike de Kock.

It was back to back Allan Robertson Championships for Mike de Kock with now triple Group 1 winning filly Alboran Sea taking out the race last year. Yesterday the star sprinter finished a game second in the WFA Group 1 South African fillies sprint having already won a Group 1 this preparation.

"All three fillies will now be spelled for the remainder of the season. Alboran Sea and Entisaar have done enough and Shaama is still quite immature,” reported de Kock.

Replay of Entisaar’s victory in the Group 1 Allan Robertson Championship at Scottsville can be viewed HERE

Entisaar is the first foal out of Catbird mare Purrpurrlena, her second foal is a full sister to Entisaar and has been retained to race in Australia by her breeder Alan Green of Echo Beach Bloodstock.

The stunning dark bay filly was sold by Vinery Stud for $300,000 at the 2014 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and is yet another victorious Inglis graduate for the Shadwell South Africa selection team which consists of Racing manager Angus Gold, trainer Mike de Kock and Jehan Malherbe of Form Bloodstock.

Saturday’s result capped off a terrific week for Mike de Kock and Inglis graduates in South Africa with Entisaar, Majmu and Alboran Sea all taking out accolades at the Racing Associations Highveld Feature Season awards.

Majmu will be out to become only the thirteenth filly in the 118 year history of the Group 1 Durban July (2200m) to win South Africa’s premier race when she lines up next month. The last filly to win the race was the great Australian bred and Inglis sold Igugu, which was trained to victory by Mike de Kock in 2011.

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