Wentwood Grange Winning Double

Media Release - Tuesday November 19

Wentwood Grange savoured a trans-Tasman double at the weekend and the Hawkins family will be looking for further reasons to celebrate at this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale.

They bred and race impressive Tauranga winner Miss Bo Peep and also bred and sold Group performer Harlow Mist, successful at the feature Newcastle meeting.

Miss Bo Peep winning at Tauranga on Saturday.   Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images)

Wentwood will be hoping that roll continues into the two-year-old sale when they offer a pair of youngsters by Hello Youmzain and Almanzor deep into Thursday’s session at Karaka.

Astern four-year-old Miss Bo Peep was untested on Saturday to account for her Rating 65 rivals over 1200 metres and now has consecutive wins from three outings for trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott.

She is a daughter of Wentwood’s Gr.1 Railway (1200m) winner Miss Raggedy Ann, who unfortunately died foaling Miss Bo Peep.

“It was a great shame, but she gave us a lovely filly and when she was born, she was obviously never going to go to a sale,” Dean Hawkins said.

“Lance and Andrew got her for obvious reasons because they trained the mother.”

Miss Bo Beep had won her previous start at New Plymouth, a venue where Miss Raggedy Ann broke her maiden and subsequently joined elite level company with her boil over win in the Railway.

“She came down the outside, Tasha Collett rode her, and she paid about 100-1 and we had a little bit on her,” Hawkins said.

Contributer four-year-old Harlow Mist has now won four of her 13 starts from John Sargent’s Randwick stable and was also third in last season’s Gr.3 Wakeful Stakes (2000m).

“She’s a quality mare and showed a lot as a spring three-year-old and it was great to see her win that Midway so impressively,” Hawkins said.

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She is out of the late Cullen mare Sila Jasak, who won on three occasions and was twice placed at black type level.

She was a daughter of the three-time Group One winner Grand Archway and a half-sister to stakes winning siblings Stand Tall and Seul Amour.

Harlow Mist was sold by Wentwood to Tricolours Racing & Syndications at Karaka for $85,000.

“It was a shame to have also lost Contributer, we had a share in him,” Hawkins said.

They do have a daughter of Sila Jasak in the Preferment mare Preferential, who has won three times for trainers Ben, Will and JD Hayes and will join their broodmare band at the end of her career.

Meanwhile, Wentwood’s pair of juveniles will be offered during the second session of the Ready to Run Sale through the draft of Pertab Racing.

“We’ve got a Hello Youmzain colt and an Almanzor gelding and Kurtis has done a great job with them, so we’ll see how they go,” Dean Hawkins said.

The Hello Youmzain, Lot 355, boasts a pedigree close to Wentwood hearts with her dam the Stravinsky mare Crescendo, a half-sister to Gr.3 Cuddle Stakes (1600m) winner Leigh Valley who produced the Gr.1 Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) winner Valley Girl.

The son of Almanzor, Lot 392, is a half-brother to the multiple winner and Gr.1 Diamond Stakes (1200m) placegetter O’Rachael with their dam the Snippetson mare Guessed. – LOVERACING.NZ News Desk

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