Shocking’s Progeny Starring at Stakes Level

Media Release - Sunday April 3

A stellar black-type season for Shocking continued on Saturday at Randwick where his daughter Nerve Not Verve outstayed her

Other stakes winners include Lincoln King who won the G3 Wellington Cup and Kilowatt who won the Listed Dunedin Gold Cup.

Nerve not Verve wins at Randwick on Saturday - image Steve Hart.

Shocking was also to the fore today as the broodmare sire of Proisir two-year-old Waitaki, who finished a brave third in the G1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes at Awapuni.

Nerve Not Verve was bred by Graeme Hunt under his Cambridge Hunt banner and was sold for $60,000 at Karaka, where she was offered by Curraghmore, to the bid of bloodstock agent Bruce Perry.

Originally raced by a syndicate headed by Wellington owner Lib Petagna, Nerve Not Verve has sported the colours of prominent businessman Richard Pegum since August last year

Trained by Michael Moroney, the six-year-old boasted solid lead-up form having won at Moonee Valley last month and then finished runner-up in the G3 Epona Stakes at Rosehill.

Rider Regan Bayliss kept the leaders within his sights in the Chairman’s and Nerve Not Verve’s depths of stamina prevailed in the closing 400 metres for the seventh win of her career.

“She’s a really good staying mare. I’ve always been a believer that she would stay, even though some of the jockeys told me that they didn’t think she would,” Moroney said.

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“I think the combination of her learning to relax a little bit more in this sort of ground she’s obviously adept in it. She’s done a great

rivals to triumph in the G2 Chairman’s Quality over 2600 metres.

It credited the Rich Hill Stud stallion with his eighth individual stakes winner for the 2021-22 term spearheaded by G1 Toorak Handicap hero I’m Thunderstruck, who was a gallant second in the G1 Doncaster Handicap.

Earlier in the season in Australia, Elephant won the G3 Sandown Stakes, Defibrillate landed the Listed Mornington Cup Prelude and Dragon Storm claimed the Listed Sandown Cup.In New Zealand, Shocking’s daughter Self Obsession was victorious at Group 2 level in the Royal Stakes, Sir Tristram Fillies’ Classic and the Lowland Stakes before running second in the G1 New Zealand Oaks  and was just named joint Filly of the Year. job.

“We’ve got a little to think about now whether we head to Queensland or what we do with her.

“She’s deep into her preparation, but as you know with mares like that they can stay in form and she’s done a really good job.”

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