La Bella Dame Delights Syndicate
- Monday, 23 September 2002 00:00
Lightly raced filly La Bella Dame scored a knockout win over her more fancied
rivals in the MRC Jumeirah International Plate Gr 3, leading to some jubilant scenes in
the mounting yard featuring her large syndicate of more than 20 owners. The Mick Price trained miss had won three of four prior starts but yesterday's win was her debut appearance in stakes company.
La Bella Dame was bred and offered for sale by Middlebrook Valley Lodge near Scone and was purchased at the 2001 Classic Yearling Sale for $30,000 by United Syndications.
She's the first foal of the unraced Snippets mare Nobellocove, a daughter of stakes-winning Melbourne filly Crazy Neaux.
Her sire Royal Academy (USA) has enjoyed a well deserved resurgence in popularity and is currently serving at Coolmore Australia this spring following two seasons exile in Brazil.
He was the
leading Australian first crop sire in 1997/1998 with runners such as Kenwood Melody and
Piccadilly Circus, but despite the early success fell from commercial favour only to zoom
back with horses the calibre of Bel Esprit, Royal Courtship, Regal Kiss, Phoenix Park, and
company.
Highly rated Lashed (2001 Premier $40,000), an Encosta de Lago filly from the Graeme Rogerson stable, powered home for third behind La Bella Dame. In the past the filly has proved a challenging ride for her jockeys by refusing to travel up on the bit and work into her races.
Whether it was the "magic hands" of Patrick Payne or just the benefit of a winter spell and some new found maturity, either way the filly raced far more tractably and looms as a leading fancy in all the big fillies events.
PICS - Quentin
Lang.
Media Release - Wm Inglis & Son