Classy three-year-old Reset filly Set For Fame produced an excellent effort at Eagle Farm on June 5 to take the G2 Dane Ripper Stakes by a length from Acquired and last start Stakes winner Wealth Princess.
One of the best of her age group, the Peter Moody-trained filly has now won four times from 10 starts, including three at Stakes level. A G2 winner and G1 placed during the Melbourne Autumn carnival, Set For Fame is likely to target the G1 Winter Stakes at Eagle Farm on June 26, the race won last year by Commands mare Russeting.
Bred by Mr Robert Crabtree, the filly is the first foal of the winning Dehere mare Northpoint and was purchased by Moody from the Inglis Premier sale for $75,000.
Having a very good run at present, recording seven winners in the last 14 days, Reset currently sits third behind fellow Darley stallions Lonhro and Exceed And Excel on the third-season sires table.
The next race on the Eagle Farm card saw talented two-year-old colt Pressday (Domesday) record his second G2 victory in the space of a fortnight with a length victory in the Sires’ Produce Stakes.
Stepping up to the 1400m for the first time, the Chris Waller-trained colt sat handy behind the leading division before pulling his way to the lead as the field headed for home to score by a length.
All going well, Pressday will back up in the G1 Champagne Stakes over a mile at Eagle Farm next Saturday, where he is currently the favourite for the final G1 event for two-year-olds this season.
Bred by Mr R D See, Pressday is out of the Kaaptive Edition mare Kaaptive Empress, a winner of nine races and a half-sister to the dam of G1 winner The Mighty Lions. Kaaptive Empress has a filly foal by Danzig’s G1 winner Librettist on the ground and was covered by Domesday last season.
Pressday is one of four Stakes horse for the son of Red Ransom from just 17 starters. G1 filly Divorces, plus Exchanges and Domesky have given Domesday the best Stakes horse to runners ratio of any of the current first-season sires.
Both Reset and Domesday (pictured) will stand the upcoming breeding season at Darley’s Northwood Park at $22,000 and $11,000 including GST respectively.
Later in the day three-year-old Lonhro filly Tromso recorded a second placing in the Listed Daybreak Lover Plate to give her sire his 34th Stakes horse overall.
