Best On Breeding

Mark Smith - Thursday April 23

Redoute’s Choice is having his best season with his two-year-olds in over a decade while Anthony Freedman has been unveiling a seemingly endless stream of successful debutants - both combine to feature in Saturday’s Best On Breeding.Charm School wins at Sandown on debut - image Racing Photos

Pinecliff Racing’s Charm School will look to build on her winning debut at Sandown on April 13 when she contests Saturday’s Group III Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville Parks.

The daughter of Redoute’s Choice was given every chance that day by Mark Zahra and she looked to be treading water at the 200 metres before knuckling down impressively in the final 100 metres to defeat the Akeed Mofeed (GB) filly Malicorne by three-quarter of a length with the stakes-placed Rubick filly Masseuse a short-head back in third.

She looked very raw that day and the stable admitted she has plenty to learn but left little doubt they hold Charm School in high regard.

Knocked down to Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, on behalf Jonathon Munz, for $480,000 out of the Arrowfield stud draft at the 2019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Charm School is the second live foal of the Northern Meteor mare Mont Zero.Charn School a $480,000 yearling

Purchased by Peter Collier for $240,000 from the Teeley Assets Dispersal in 2014, the stakes-placed Mount Zero is a granddaughter of the Vain mare Salamore whose great granddaughter Tallow is the dam of this season’s Golden Slipper hero Farnan.

Mount Zero is a daughter of the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview winner Beauty School (Royal Academy) out of Salamore whose dam Salire (Realgar) was a half-sister to the crack Biscay filly Lowan Star.

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At the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale earlier this year, Arrowfield Stud consigned a Not A Single Doubt filly out of Mount Zero that was knocked down to Stonestreet Stables for $650,000.

Mount Zero has a weanling colt, which is one of just 26 live foals from the final crop of Redoute’s Choice, and she was covered by Redoute’s Choice’s 5-time Group 1 winning son The Autumn Sun last spring.

Incidentally, another mare with a colt from the final crop of the great Redoute’s Choice is the dual stakes-winning Ain'Tnofallenstar (Starcraft) who is the dam of the Anthony Freedman-trained, two-year-old Dundeel colt, Ain'tnodeeldun who will be looking to improve on his two fourth-placings when he contests Saturday’s Listed Anzac Day Stakes at Flemington.

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