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Regally Related Smart Missile Filly Opens Winning Account
June 2, 2021

A trio of expensive yearling purchases searching for their first win did battle over 1400m in the opening event at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. It was Kia Ora Stud and partners that could breathe a little easier after the Smart Missile filly Alighted did enough to open her winning account. At the same time, connections of a pair of I Am Invincible geldings, $1.4million Captivare and the $1.3million Volterra will have to wait for another day.

Alighted a $360,000 Magic Millions yearling

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$1million for Humma Humma
May 25, 2021

The million dollar mares keep coming at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale with Denman‘s Group 3 winning daughter  Humma Humma snapped up by Widden Stud for $1million.

Humma Humma wins the Listed Alinghi Stakes at Caulfield - image Grant Courtney
Consigned by Widden on behalf of her ownership group, Humma Humma was trained throughout her career by John McArdle and was a fast and consistent sprinter winning at two and training on to win six races and place 10 times earning over $650,000 in prizemoney.

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Peltzer to Twin Hills
May 24, 2021

Peltzer, the unbeaten two year old and Group 2 winning three year old by So You Think, has been retired to Twin Hills Stud for the 2021 breeding season. He will stand at a fee of $16,500 inc GST.

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Auction-bound mare’s first foal a stakes sweetheart
May 20, 2021

Well-related mare She’s A Sweetheart (Show A Heart) has benefitted from a timely black type lift ahead of her joining a star-studded cast at the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale. Owner Greg Kolivos supplemented She’s A Sweetheart into the auction where she will be offered in foal to Champion stallion Fastnet Rock as part of the Newgate Consignment as Lot 1367.

The Joe Pride-trained Ballistic Lover (Smart Missile) is the mare’s only foal to race to date and she has fashioned the tidy record of five wins and three placings from her 11 appearances and most significantly claimed the Listed Denise’s Joy S. at her latest outing.

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Smart Missile Filly Wins Denise’s Joy Stakes
May 17, 2021

There were a lot of very happy Tricolours Racing Syndication owners at Rosehill on Saturday when talented Smart Missile filly Ballistic Lover led all the way to win the Listed Denise’s Joy Stakes (1100m) claiming her first Black Type success and bringing an important update for her dam, who will be offered at Magic Millions.

Ballistic Loves wins the Denise's Joy Stakes - image Steve Hart.

Well prepared by Joe Pride, Ballistic Lover won her first run back from a spell at Doomben last month and freshened up again for this assignment she was all business from the jump.

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21 for Smart Missile
May 17, 2021

Ballistic Lover (3 f ex She’s A Sweetheart by Show A Heart) landed the Denise’s Joy Stakes (Listed, 1100m) at Rosehill yesterday to earn Smart Missile (Fastnet Rock) his 21st individual stakes winner. The Joe Pride-trained filly was having her second start in stakes company, after running unplaced in the Brian Crowley Stakes (Listed, 1200m) in the spring, and eased to a two-anda-half-length win, despite her unfancied odds of $18.

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Cherry Tortoni “in a different class” in Adelaide Guineas
May 12, 2021

Cherry Tortoni landed a dominant three-length victory in the Adelaide Guineas at Morphettville on Saturday in a performance that had race caller, Brett Davis, labelling the three-year-old a ‘different class’ to his competitors.

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Family ties to continue Humma’s legacy
May 11, 2021

Redgum Racing’s affinity for the progeny of well-performed racemare Humma Mumma (Bel Esprit) has made it easier for trainer John McArdle to farewell her first stakes-performed daughter, Humma Humma (Denman), at the upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

Saturday’s G3 Proud Miss S. at Morphettville, the scene of Humma Humma’s first Group success last year, will mark the end of the road for the galloper who put her family on the map, and she will line up against a field of 16 in Saturday’s race.

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20 for Smart Missile
April 4, 2021

Yao Dash (4 g Smart Missile x Rahy Storm by Rahy) skipped away with the Doncaster Prelude (Gr 3, 1500m) to secure his place in the Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) as he became the 20th individual stakes winner for his sire Smart Missile (Fastnet Rock).

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20th Stakes-Winner for Smart Missile
April 3, 2021

Newhaven Park bred and sold Yao Dash became the 20th stakes-winner for his Twin Hills based sire Smart Missile when scoring a resounding victory in the Group III ATC Doncaster Prelude (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Yao Dash wins the G3 Doncaster Prelude - image Steve Hart.

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