King of Naples Keeps Winners Coming for Your Song

Tara Madgwick - Saturday July 29

Gooree Stud based Your Song had a treble of winners on Friday and kept the ball rolling on Saturday when his progressive three year-old King of Naples scored a determined win in the Benchmark 72 event at Randwick.

King of Naples wins at Randwick - image Steve Hart

Trained by John O’Shea, King of Naples was a last start winner at Canterbury and repeated the effort in tougher grade to win the 1300m contest by a neck for Nash Rawiller over the favourite Plundering.

A $170,000 Inglis Classic purchase for his trainer from the Gooree Park draft, King of Naples has been very consistent with the overall record of four wins and five placings from 13 starts with prizemoney in excess of $200,000.

He is the best of three winners from stakes-placed Ocean Tempest, a half-sister by Bel Esprit to stakes-winner Ruling Dynasty and to the dam of stakes-winner Ever The Same.

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King of Naples comes from the best family in the Australian Studbook claiming Dancing Show (USA) as his third dam with his stakes-placed grand-dam Makarova being a half-sister to Group I winners Umatilla, Hurricane Sky and to the dam of Redoute’s Choice.

Gooree Park bought Makarova at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in 1999 when the daughter of Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch (USA) topped the sale at $1.2million.

Your Song stands at Gooree Stud, test your mare with a Hypo mating.

A Group I winning son of Fastnet Rock, Your Song stands at Gooree Park at a fee of $5,500.

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Race Result - Marcellin College Randwick (Bm72) 1300m

Randwick Track: Good(4) Time: 1:16.59
1
King Of Naples
- 3g Your Song (AUS) x Ocean Tempest (AUS) (Bel Esprit (AUS))
Tnr: J A O'Shea Rdr: N Rawiller 59.5
2
0.2
Plundering
- 3g Shooting To Win (AUS) x Backless (NZ) (Cape Blanco (IRE))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham Rdr: Zac Lloyd 60
3
0.3
Gently Rolled
- 3f Press Statement (AUS) x Exultation (AUS) (Lonhro (AUS))
Tnr: Bryce Heys Rdr: H Van Der Hoven 55.5
4
1.0
Terrestar
- 3f Zoustar (AUS) x Sous La Terre (AUS) (Pierro (AUS))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: Tyler Schiller 52
5
1.6
Star Mistress
- 3f Star Turn (AUS) x Arctic Success (AUS) (Big Brown (USA))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: Tim Clark 56.5
6
1.7
Venelope
- 3f Kingman (GB) x Fastnet Sun (IRE) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher & D Eustace Rdr: J R Collett 54.5
7
1.9
Nosey Parker
- 3g Choisir (AUS) x Ellie's Gem (AUS) (High Chaparral (IRE))
Tnr: P M Perry Rdr: S Clipperton 57
8
2.0
Strait Acer
- 3g Headwater (AUS) x Money Wanted (AUS) (Wanted (AUS))
Tnr: Edward Cummings Rdr: J Parr 57.5
9
2.5
Little Baia
- 3f All Too Hard (AUS) x La Passe (AUS) (Street Sense (USA))
Tnr: Bjorn Baker Rdr: Rachel King 52
10
3.8
Capitol Queen
- 3f Capitalist (AUS) x Claudia Jean (AUS) (Not A Single Doubt (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher & D Eustace Rdr: Dylan Gibbons 54.5
11
3.9
Whinchat
- 3g Russian Revolution (AUS) x Natchwhali (NZ) (O'reilly (NZ))
Tnr: David Pfieffer Rdr: J Ford 54
12
5.2
Pure Hydrogen
- 3g Exosphere (AUS) x Samra (AUS) (Wily Trader (AUS))
Tnr: John Thompson Rdr: R Dolan 55
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