Japanese Oaks Winner has a Shadwell Connection

Mark Smith - Sunday May 23

With the Shadwell Farm dispersal in progress at the Gold Coast, the horse that started it all for Sheikh Hamden in Australia, Nouvelle Star, featured as the fifth dam of Sunday’s Group 1 The Yashun Simba (Japanese Oaks) winner Uberleben (JPN).

The crowd favourite Sodashi lost her unbeaten record with a fighting eighth, but all honours went to Mirco Demuro on the Takahisa Tezuka-trained Uberleben.

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The daughter of Gold Ship came from midfield to hit the line strongly in defeating the second favourite Akaitorino Musume (Deep Impact) by a length with Hagino Pilina (Kizuna) a nose back in third.

Making her seventh start, Uberleben was winning for the first time since a successful career debut over 1800m on a heavy track at Tokyo in June last year.

She closed out her juvenile season with a third behind Sodashi in the Group 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. She finished third in her first two starts at three in the Group III Flower Cup and Group II Flora Stakes.

The charismatic Gold Ship gets his first Group 1 winner

A three-quarter brother to the stakes-winner Meiner Fanrong (Stay Gold), Uberleben becomes the first Group 1 winner for the hugely entertaining, 6-time Group 1 winner Gold Ship (Stay Gold).

Her dam Meine Theresia (Roses In May) was a winner in three starts. She is a daughter of the top-class Meine Nouvelle (Brian’s Time) who won the Group 1 Hopeful Stakes in 2002.  

Meine Nouvelle is out of the Zabeel mare Meine Pretender(NZ) a half-sister to the Group II STC Reisling Slipper Trial winner Star Of Nouvelle and the South African Group II winner Double Reef.

That trio are out of Nouvellie’s Star’s influential daughter Giladah (IRE) by the great Mill Reef.

A daughter of Luskin Star Nouvelle Star bowed out of racing when Brent Thompson guided her to a win over River Rough in the 1984 Group II Linlithgow Stakes. She spread her influence far and wide after being sent to the northern hemisphere for broodmare duties.   

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