Australian Listed Winners – Week ending 6 December 2009

Australian Listed Winners - Week ending 6 December 2009

5/12...MODE STAKES  (LR)  DOOMBEN  1200M
1.  SWISS ROSE  3f  Thorn Park-Finishing School  (Royal Academy)
O-Heinrich Bloodstock; B- Mapperley Stud
T-Gillian Heinrich (Gold Coast);  J-Brad Stewart
$70,000 - 2008 NZ B/stock Premier Sale;  V-Windsor Park
2.  Madeittothemoon 3f Magic Albert-Our Promise (Luskin Star)
3.  Moama (3f  Mossman-Annecy Miss  (Anabaa)
Swiss Rose did best in a three-way photo finish to win the Mode Stakes by a short half head. The win provided her NZ-based sire Thorn Park with his seventh individual stakes-winner.  Purchased for $70,000 at Karaka's Premier Sale, Swiss Rose hails from a precocious family that includes last season's G1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward for Effort (Exceed and Excel) and G2 Maribyrnong Plate winner Catnipped (Rory's Jester).  A half-brother to Swiss Rose by Falkirk has been catalogued for Karaka 2010 in the Windsor Park Stud draft.

5/12...FESTIVAL STAKES  (LR)  ROSEHILL  1500M
1.  RABBUKA  6g  Giant's Causeway-Explosive  (Fappiano)
O/B-Gooree Park Stud (Mgr: E Cojuangco & A Baddock)
T-Gai Waterhouse (Randwick);  J-Josh Parr
Retained by breeder
2.  Parfumier  7g  Belong To Me-Patou  (Covetous)
3.  Ahdashim 4h  Elusive City-Clinique  (Dance Floor).
Rabbuka showed no ill effects off a 27-week lay-off, leading all the way to win the Festival Stakes by just over a length.  "He always races well fresh and three trials had him hard and fit," jockey Jash Parr said.  "He's just a tough open handicapper and makes his own luck.  He was never going to get beaten."
Rabbuka now has won 7 races from 18 starts including the oomben Handicap and Listed Peter Gallagher Stakes.  Rabbuka is one of six winners for the stakes placed Explosive and is half-brother to G1 Coolmore Stakes winner Northern Meteor (Encosta de Lago) who is now based at Widden. 

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