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Team Celestial Legend Strike for Another Son of Dundeel

Mark Smith - Monday April 8

When you’re on a good thing, stick to it!

Together again Bon Ho and Les Bridge (image Steve Hart)

After hitting the heights with the Dundeel colt Celestial Legend in Saturday’s $4,000,000 Star Doncaster Mile, Bon Ho’s Legend Racing, Mark McStay’s Avenue Bloodstock, and trainer Les Bridge teamed up again to purchase a son of Dundeel at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.(lot 402)

The trio had the final say at $400,000 for Arrowfield Stud’s colt, which is out of the Group 1 SAJC Schweppes Oaks winner Abby Marie, a sister to Group 1 AJC Australian Oaks winner Absolutely and a three-quarter sister to Group III winners Runaway and She’s Clean.

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Abby Marie’s half-sister Life In a Metro (Fastnet Rock) is the dam of the Group II MVRC Sunline Stakes winner Quantum Mechanic and the multiple Group II winner in South Africa, Mount Pleasant (Vancouver). 

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