Another Stakes Winner Sold by Yarraman Park

Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 11
The China Horse Club, Newgate Farm and partners enjoyed stakes success on Thursday when the Listed Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford was won by four year-old gelding Calanda, a $200,000 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling purchase from the Yarraman Park draft.

Calanda as a yearlingPrepared by Peter and Paul Snowden, Calanda has been fourth, second and fourth again in recent stakes starts and scored a well-deserved win in the 1200 metre sprint.

Ridden by Blake Shinn, the son of Snitzel scored a long head win taking his overall record to six wins from 16 starts with prizemoney topping $545,000.

Purchased by China Horse Club/ Michael Wallace Bloodstock from the Yarraman Park draft, Calanda is a half-brother to Group II winners Silverstream and Speedy Natalie and is the seventh winner from stakes-winner Speedy Bell, who died in 2016.



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