Promising RACETREE bred middle distance entire SPACECRAFT kicked off his current campaign with a super all the way win in the S.A.J.C Penny Edition stakes on Saturday at Morphetville.
SPACECRAFT has now won 3 races and $163k in stakes earnings.
Apart from his recent victory SPACECRAFT finished 2nd in the G2 M.V.R.C AAMI VASE last season.
SPACECRAFT is by international star sire GALILEO from the OCTAGONAL mare DEMANDING which is domiciled at RACETREE.
SPACECRAFT an $85k 2008 Magic Millions purchase is well related in a family that boasts Black Type throughout including the Champion 2 year old of his season TIERCE.
TIERCE the TRIPLE CROWN victor won 11 races and 2.2million in stakes including the Golden Slipper.
DEMANDING is proving to be an outstanding purchase for RACETREE'S Managing Director Kevin Dixon with 4 foals to races for a 100% winning strike rate and includes the dual Black type winner and W.A.T.C Derby placegetter PHENOMENONS. By Giant's Causeway, Phenomenons is proving versatile winning from 1100m to 2200m and has collected $221k in stakes earnings.
DEMANDING a product of super racehorse and now sort after broodmare sire OCTAGONAL was a winner of two races in WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Racetree Managing Director Kevin Dixon believes that DEMANDING will continue to produce winners as she has a Fastnet Rock youngster due any day now. Plus a 2 year old HOTEL GRAND filly in work with Kelly Schweida (to be retained by Racetree). Also Demanding has a cracking yearling filly by Rock of Gibraltar in the 2011 Magic Millions sales on the Gold Coast. Demanding is due to visit Commands in the next few weeks for this years breeding season.
"Demanding has really done the job for us here at Racetree" said Mr Dixon.
"She (Demanding) deserves her chance with quality sires like Fastnet Rock and Commands. he added.
Racetree's Group One Success in South Africa
Leading Queensland Nursery Racetree has proven itself once again as one of the leading genuine sellers/breeders of star racetrack performers with the brilliant filly Happy Archer scoring a Gr1 victory in South Africa.
Happy Archer confirmed her status as one of the rising stars of South African racing with a thrashing of her rivals in Saturday night's Group One Durban Thekwini Stakes (1600m) at Greyville.
Sent out the favourite after a pair on impressive wins at her previous two outings on the track, the Dubawi filly relished the extra journey in the feature two-year-old contest and she cleared away for an easy win.
Star jockey Anton Marcus allowed Happy Archer to settle back in the field, in between runners, before making his move approaching the home turn.
Marcus was able to get the filly to the outside of runners in the straight and from there she was able to reel in the leaders and race to the front.
Happy Archer, a graduate of renowned Queensland thoroughbred nursery Racetree and half sister to this season's Queensland stakes winner Femina Fashion, is trained by Sean Tarry.
She was purchased for just $23,000 at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale by Tarry's brother and regular Gold Coast buyer Mark.
The exciting youngster is the 12th individual stakes winner for her sire - Dubawi, the Irish Two Thousand Guineas winning son of Dubai Millennium.
Her dam So Tempted, a winner in Adelaide over 1250 metres, is from the stakes performed and six time winning Semipalatinsk mare Hutt Star.
So Tempted, by Melbourne Cup winner Jeune, is therefore a full sister to Wakeful Stakes winner and VRC Oaks placegetter Lolita Star and a half sister to Adelaide Guineas winner Berezny.
So Tempted is doing a great job at stud and her two named foals to date are both stakes winning fillies.
As well as Happy Archer she is the dam of the Gold Coast Bracelet winner and Doomben Roses runner-up Femina Fashion.
Prepared at the Gold Coast by Trevor Whittington, Femina Fashion is a winner from 1200 to 1800 metres and has already earned her connections $189,800.
Racetree will offer a Henny Hughes colt ex SO TEMPTED at 2011 Magic Millions and is currently in foal to RACETREE Freshman sire HOTEL GRAND ..... Racetree Managing Director Kevin Dixon has advised that SO TEMPTED will be mated with Champion Sire Flying Spur.
