Friday night’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley has attracted a superb field with any of the eleven runners capable of playing a hand in the finish.
It is doubtful that September Run will start at double figures too many times. The daughter of Exceed And Excel has drawn barrier one and is likely to get back in the field with the three-year-olds Profiteer (Capitalist) and Shaquero (Shalaa) expected to set the pace.
We will put our faith in John Allen navigating a passage on September Run. She was a fast-finishing third behind two of her opponents on Friday, The Inferno (Holy Roman Emperor) and Portland Sky (Deep Field), over the same track and distance in the Group II McEwan Stakes on September 4.
September Run’s big payday came in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes down the straight 1200m at Flemington in October last year.
The Chris Waller-trained filly powered home over the top of another two of her opponents on Friday, Swats That (Shamus Award) and Wild Ruler (Snitzel).
Hermitage Thoroughbreds bought September Run for $380,000 out of the Blue Gum Farm draft at the 2019 Inglis Premier Yearling sale.
The daughter of Exceed And Excel is the second foal of the Street Cry (IRE) mare Pittsburgh Flyer, a homebred for Greg and Jenny White of Alpara Lodge in South Australia.
Trained by Lee and Shannon Hope, Pittsburgh Flyer won the Group III GH Mumm Stakes at Flemington and defeated Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner and Golden Slipper runner-up Earthquake in the Listed MSS Security Stakes (Moomba Plate) (1100m).
Pittsburgh Flyer was beaten less than a length when fourth behind Flamberge, Fell Swoop and Heatherly in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m).
Pittsburgh Flyer is a daughter of Warning Zone (SAF), the Champion 2YO Filly in South Africa in 2002-03.
The Group II Golden Slipper winner at Greyville, Warning Zone (SAF) was a private purchase by Team Valor after finishing third in the Group 1 Triple Tiara 1600 over a mile at Newmarket.
She made a winning stakes debut in America when capturing the Listed Marie G. Krantz Memorial Hcp at Fair Grounds.
Warning Zone (SAF) was retired after her next start when injured after finishing fifth in a Gr III at Fair Grounds.
Hancock Quality Bloodstock purchased Warning Zone for $450,000 on behalf of the Whites at the 2007 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale when in foal to Rahy.
Warning Zone (AF) was a daughter of the Lyphard stallion Elliodor (FR), who had a long and successful career spanning twenty-four seasons at stud.
Perhaps the secret of his longevity was that he was hardly overworked. Elliodor (FR) had 14 foals in his first crop and a handful in his third and covered relatively small books his entire career.
Exported to Australia in 2007, Warning Zone (SAF) had four foals in her adopted homeland before her death in 2014.
Pittsburgh Flyer was by some distance the best of the quartet on the track, but she has two other daughters, Springbok Girl (Flying Spur) and Alsariaa (Street Cry), to keep the line going.
Pittsburgh Flyer was bought by Go Bloodstock/Paul Moroney Bloodstock for $500,000 when offered by Coolmore at the Alpara Lodge Breeding Stock Dispersal at the 2018 National Broodmare Sale.
The American Pharoah (USA) filly she was carrying was sold to Eddie Hirsch for $100,000 at the 2020 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Named My Yankee Girl, she is in training with John Salanitri.
Pittsburgh Flyer has a yearling filly by Merchant Navy and foaled a brother to September Run on August 30.
