First Stakes-Winner for Kobayashi

Tara Madgwick - Saturday May 4

You can’t underestimate a tough, fit filly in good form and the Les Ross trained Mishani Lily is just that and she proved too good for the colts when taking out the Listed BRC Dalrello Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday to credit her sire Kobayashi with his first stakes-winner.

Mishani Lily kicked off her career with a debut win last September and has raced consistently since then coming into this assignment with three wins and two placings from seven starts.

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Far more experienced than her rivals, Mishani Lily led for home under Vlad Duric and held all challengers off to win by half a length over late closing I Am Invincible colt Embassy.

She clocked a brilliant 56.89 for the 1000m running her last 600 33.40.

“Sufferin’ succotash- they can’t run any faster than that!” said Les Ross.

“She can muster along and under the weights, she was pitchforked in at 55kg.”

A homebred for Mike Crooks and his Mishani Enterprises, Mishani Lily has now won four of eight starts banking over $440,000.

She is the best of two winners from winning Written Tycoon mare Sweet Savannah, who traces back to Group II WATC West Australian Oaks winner Mystic Chantry with this family also producing this season’s dual Group I winning mare Magic Time, who is interestingly also by a sire son of I Am Invincible in Hellbent.

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Sweet Savannah was one of 104 mares covered last spring by Aquis based Kobayashi, a stakes-winning son of I Am Invincible that stood last year at a fee of $8,800.

Kobayashi has had a good season with his two year-olds siring five winners from 11 starters and they include Mishani Aloha, who won the $500,000 Aquis Jewel.

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Race Result - Ladbrokes Dalrello Stakes LR 1000m

Eagle Farm Track: Soft(5) Time: 0:56.89
1
Mishani Lily
- 2f Kobayashi (AUS) x Sweet Savannah (AUS) (Written Tycoon (AUS))
Tnr: L G Ross Rdr: V Duric 55
Kobayashi
2
0.4
Embassy
- 2c I Am Invincible (AUS) x Dendee (AUS) (Denman (AUS))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: James Orman 57
I Am Invincible
3
2.8
Zouna
- 2c Zousain (AUS) x Campagna (AUS) (Camelot (GB))
Tnr: L J Mayfield-Smith Rdr: Adin Thompson 57
Zousain
4
3.2
Madrina
- 2f Street Boss (USA) x Armed For Action (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: A Hyeronimus 55
5
4.1
Lead Me On
- 2g Brutal (NZ) x The Seductress (AUS) (Snitzel (AUS))
Tnr: Chris Anderson Rdr: M Rodd 57
6
5.9
Espinho
- 2c Written Tycoon (AUS) x The Broken Shore (AUS) (Hussonet (USA))
Tnr: A & S Freedman Rdr: Ryan Maloney 57
7
6.5
Devine Force
- 2f Cosmic Force (AUS) x Munjai (AUS) (Trusting (AUS))
Tnr: Chris Munce Rdr: R Dolan 55
8
7.4
Pareto
- 2g Pierata (AUS) x O'rachael (AUS) (Northern Meteor (AUS))
Tnr: D A McColm Rdr: Kyle Wilson-Taylor 57
9
7.7
The Hamo
- 2g Better Than Ready (AUS) x News Release (AUS) (Press Statement (AUS))
Tnr: P & W Hulbert Rdr: M R Du Plessis 57
10
13.2
Carravilla
- 2f Pierata (AUS) x Tinto Fino (NZ) (Ocean Park (NZ))
Tnr: Chris Munce Rdr: Martin Harley 55
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