Tag: Olly Tait

Bobby’s Kitten Represented by First Australian Winner

Lanwades stallion Bobby's Kitten (Kitten's Joy), whose daughter Sandrine (GB) added last week's G2 Duchess of Cambridge S. to her victory in the G3 Albany S. at Royal Ascot, was represented by his first winner from his lone Southern Hemisphere-sired crop when the debuting Cecil Street Lad (Aus) ran out a 3/4-length winner Wednesday at Sandown in Victoria.

Bred and raised by Olly Tait's Twin Hills Farm in New South Wales, the gelded son of Just A Girl (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}) was the $4.40 (17-5) second favorite and landed better than midfield one out and one back in the slipstream of Stonestreet Farm's $8 chance Mura Mura (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}). Pulled out into the clear with 400 metres to travel, Cecil Street Lad boxed on gamely, hit the front inside the final 50m and inched clear.

One of 30 listed Southern Hemisphere-bred foals, Cecil Street Lad fetched A$55,000 as a yearling at the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale in March 2020, then realized a final bid of NZ$320,000 from Richard Laming Racing/John White Bloodstock at New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready To Run Sale last November (see below). He is one of two winners to race from his dam, who was acquired by Twin Hills for A$50,000 in foal to former 'TDN Rising Star' Rubick (Aus) (Encosta de Lago {Aus}) at the 2017 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale in 2017.

Bobby's Kitten, who flew home to win the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint as a 3-year-old in 2014, is the sire of 25 winners to date, a number that also includes G2 Beresford S. runner-up Monaasib (GB).

 

WATCH: Cecil Street Lad breezes at the 2020 NZB Ready To Run Sale

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American-Bred Lemon Pop Takes Derby Prep at Tokyo

The first of four races on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, the 1600-meter Cattleya S. (allowance), took place Saturday on the eve of the G1 Japan Cup at Toyko Racecourse, with US-bred Lemon Pop (Lemon Drop Kid) running his record to two wins from as many starts with a convincing victory.

The 7-5 second choice, a debut winner in a 1300-meter newcomers’ event at Tokyo Nov. 7, broke without incident and was ridden positively from gate one by Keita Tosaki to sit in the wake of pacesetting Takeru Pegasus (Jpn) (Dunkirk), favored at 4-5 off a nine-length maiden victory over Saturday’s track and distance Nov. 7. Sitting the pocket into the long Tokyo straight, Lemon Pop rolled away from the fence to come after the front-runner and wore that one down to take it by a cozy 1 1/2 lengths (see below). It was a gap of 10 lengths back to Plus Ultra (Jpn) (Discreet Cat) in third.

Lemon Pop races for Godolphin and was purchased on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed’s operation by Harry Sweeney’s Paca Paca Farm for $70,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September sale out of Padraig Campion’s Blandford Stud consignment. The chestnut was bred by Olly Tait, who served as chief operating officer of Darley for 15 years prior to his departure in 2014, and his wife Amber.

Lemon Pop was produced by Unreachable (Giant’s Causeway), an unraced daughter of five-time GSW Harpia (Danzig), a full-sister to the legendary Danehill, MGSW Shibboleth and GSW Eagle Eyed. Another full-sister to Harpia–Family–bred European GSW, Hong Kong SW and UAE Group 3-placed Dundonnell (First Defence).

The Cattleya Sho offered Derby points on a 10-4-2-1 scale. The second leg of the series is the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun (1600m) at Kawasaki Dec. 16, followed by the Listed Hyacinth S. back at Tokyo in February and the Fukuryu S. (allowance) at Nakayama.

WATCH: Lemon Pop (1) wins the Cattleya S. (allowance) at Tokyo

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