First Stakes Win for Capitalist Mare

Tara Madgwick - Saturday May 27

Graham and Linda Huddy are great supporters of racing both on the track and in after racing life care and they got a great result when their Peachester Lodge colours were carried to victory in the Listed BRC Helen Coughlan stakes (1200m) by progressive Capitalist mare Comrade Rosa.

Comrade Rosa claims a first stakes win - image Grant Courtney

Trained by Tony Gollan, Comrade Rosa has been racing in great form this year and improved on a last start stakes placing to land her first Black Type win.

Taken back from a wide gate, Comrade Rosa let down with a big run out wide for Ryan Maloney to win by the best part of a length.

“So happy for (owners) Graham and Linda. They put so much into racing - not just with me but all throughout Australia,” said Tony Gollan,

"They buy these really nice fillies as yearlings and to win a stakes race for them means the world to me. They're huge supporters.

"I was really disappointed when I saw the barriers at the start of the week. I just didn't know whether she had (it) to come from the barriers that far back to win but she just swooped on them.

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"She had improved a lot in two weeks in appearance and there's a lot more to come. I think when we step her out to the 1300 metres of the Dane Ripper in a couple of weeks, you'll see her better again.”

Comrade Rosa was bred and sold by Kitchwin Hills.

A $100,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Peachester Lodge from the Kitchwin Hills draft, Comrade Rosa has five wins and five placings from 17 starts with prizemoney in excess of $288,000.

Comrade Rosa was bred by Kitchwin Hills and is the best of four winners from stakes-winning Redoute’s Choice mare No Looking Back, whose dam Mirror Mirror won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, a race that was famously taken from No Looking Back on protest.

No Looking Back was sold at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale last week for just $40,000 in the Blue Sky Premium Consignment to M & C Bloodstock in foal to Written By.

Comrade Rosa is the 13th stakes-winner for Newgate Farm’s Capitalist and is his seventh this season.

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Race Result - Magic Millions Helen Coughlan LR 1200m

Eagle Farm Track: Good(4) Time: 1:10.71
1
Comrade Rosa
- 4m Capitalist (AUS) x No Looking Back (AUS) (Redoute's Choice (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: Ryan Maloney 55.5
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Seller: Peachester Lodge, Peachester, Qld
Buyer:
MM Gold Coast National Weanling Sale $375,000
Seller: Kitchwin Hills, Scone, NSW
Buyer: Peachester Lodge Pty Ltd
2
0.8
Salateen
- 5m I Am Invincible (AUS) x Salma (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: B Shinn 56.5
I Am Invincible
3
1.1
Aureus Angel
- 5m Turffontein (AUS) x Miss Marriott (AUS) (Sebring (AUS))
Tnr: Chris Munce Rdr: Damien Thornton 55.5
4
2.1
Juan Diva
- 6m Snitzel (AUS) x Peron (AUS) (Husson (ARG))
Tnr: Richard & Will Freedman Rdr: J R Collett 57.5
5
2.2
Sneaky Five
- 4m Fastnet Rock (AUS) x Small Minds (AUS) (Canny Lad (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: James Orman 57.5
6
2.3
Hellfest
- 4m Fastnet Rock (AUS) x Mid Summer Music (AUS) (Oamaru Force (AUS))
Tnr: James Cummings Rdr: Tim Clark 57.5
7
2.4
Self Indulgent
- 4m Foxwedge (AUS) x Indulgent (AUS) (Stravinsky (USA))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: Ben Thompson 55.5
8
3.0
Brookspire
- 5m Hinchinbrook (AUS) x Be Inspired (AUS) (Zabeel (NZ))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: J B Mc Donald 55.5
9
3.8
Deep Rouge
- 5m Deep Field (AUS) x Bouzy Rouge (AUS) (Snitzel (AUS))
Tnr: B J Lockwood Rdr: M R Du Plessis 55.5
10
4.1
Promise Of Success
- 7m Dansili (GB) x Summer School (IRE) (Street Cry (IRE))
Tnr: J A O'Shea Rdr: B Melham 58.5
11
4.2
Euro Belle
- 6m Eurozone (AUS) x Feline Flyer (AUS) (Catbird (AUS))
Tnr: Ms G Heinrich Rdr: Tyler Schiller 55.5
12
4.3
Extremist
- 4m Extreme Choice (AUS) x Rubinacci (AUS) (Johannesburg (USA))
Tnr: R L Heathcote Rdr: Angela Jones 55.5
13
4.9
Airstrike
- 4m Rubick (AUS) x Flying Strike (AUS) (Stravinsky (USA))
Tnr: B J Lockwood Rdr: Madeleine Wishart 55.5
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