G3 Winner Rumbled Again – Well That was Left of Centre!

Tara Madgwick - Sunday December 1

Darley stallion Night of Thunder will stand at Dalham Hall in 2025 at a fee of €150,000, but earlier in his stud career he shuttled to Australia for one season in 2016 and a filly born in that foal crop won her first stakes race on Saturday at Caulfield at age seven.

Rumbled Again wisn the G3 Summoned Stakes at 25-1 - image Grant Courtney

Ridden by Craig Williams, Rumbled Again produced a career best performance in the Group III MRC Summoned Stakes (1400m) to win by three quarters of a length crediting her trainer Michael Trotter with his first stakes-winner.

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Rumbled Again was retained to race by her breeders and has the overall record of seven wins and 10 placings from 36 starts with prizemoney topping $500,000.

Rumbled Again and happy connections - image Grant Courtney

She is the 59th stakes-winner worldwide for Dubawi’s top class son Night of Thunder and has an interesting profile as she is the last foal of her dam Adulate, who was 19 when she was born.

An unplaced half-sister by Flying Spur to Group II winner Spargo from Group II winner Adraanito, Adulate has proven a much better producer than a racehorse.

Retired from stud duty officially in 2019, Adulate had 10 named foals that all raced and seven of them won with Rumbled Again the last to be born and the first to gain Black Type.

It is very rare that a mare would have that many foals to perform at a certain level and then out of the blue a Group winner appears, although to be fair Night of Thunder is a very different class of stallion to all of those she visited beforehand.

Hindsight is a great judge though as at the time Night of Thunder was covering Adulate, he just another intriguing shuttle horse to consider at a fee of $16,500!

Night of Thunder was a one season visitor to Australia for Darley.

That lone crop of Australian conceived foals has produced 46 runners and 40 of them have won and six are stakes-winners headed by Group I winner Kukerachi with the SW to runner strike rate for those horses at 13%.

Night of Thunder’s overall statistics show him at 12% SW to runner with five Group I winners to his credit including the William Haggas trained rising four year-old Economics, who promises to be a G1 star on the Euro scene in 2024.

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Race Result - Tile Importer Summoned Stakes Gr3 1600m

Caulfield Track: Heavy(8) Time: 1:39.71
1
Rumbled Again
- 7m Night Of Thunder (IRE) x Adulate (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))
Tnr: Michael Trotter Rdr: Craig Williams 56
2
0.8
So Glamorous
- 4m So You Think (NZ) x Glamorous Miss (AUS) (Redoute's Choice (AUS))
Tnr: G M Begg Rdr: Damian Lane 56
So You Think
Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale $230,000
Seller: Edinglassie Stud, Muswellbrook
Buyer: Grahame Begg Racing Pty Ltd
3
1.1
Electric Impulse
- 5m Cable Bay (IRE) x Studio City (AUS) (Teofilo (IRE))
Tnr: Henry Dwyer Rdr: Ben Allen 56
Inglis Gold Yearling Sale $4,500
Seller: Collingrove Stud, Euroa
Buyer: Basham Thoroughbreds
4
2.1
Queen Of Dragons
- 4m Pierro (AUS) x Entrancing (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: Peter Snowden Rdr: B Shinn 58
5
4.1
Zaszou
- 4m Zoustar (AUS) x Zasorceress (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ))
Tnr: P Stokes Rdr: D W Stackhouse 56
6
8.1
Bon Mistress
- 4m Bon Hoffa (AUS) x Miss Galato (AUS) (Skalato (AUS))
Tnr: K & K Keys Rdr: Zac Spain 56
7
9.8
Poifect
- 4m Pierro (AUS) x Without Exception (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))
Tnr: Ben, Will & Jd Hayes Rdr: M Zahra 57
8
10.6
Regal Vow
- 5m Swear (AUS) x Regime (USA) (Empire Maker (USA))
Tnr: Charlotte Littlefield Rdr: Beau Mertens 56
9
14.1
Elphinstone
- 4m Street Boss (USA) x Inflection (AUS) (Shamardal (USA))
Tnr: T & C McEvoy Rdr: L Currie 56
10
14.5
Mollynickers
- 4m Pierro (AUS) x Just One Moment (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: P G Moody & Katherine Coleman Rdr: L Nolen 56
11
20.5
Serasana
- 4m Snitzel (AUS) x Twilight Royale (AUS) (Testa Rossa (AUS))
Tnr: R Griffiths & M De Kock Rdr: Jye McNeil 59
12
24
Delicious Tycoon
- 6m Written Tycoon (AUS) x Rockolicious (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: Gavin Bedggood Rdr: Ethan Brown 56
13
39
Queues Likely
- 4m Massaat (IRE) x Bakoura (GB) (Green Desert (USA))
Tnr: Bjorn Baker Rdr: Rachel King 58
14
89
Stylish
- 4m Lonhro (AUS) x Alaskan Rose (NZ) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: Michael Moroney & Glen Thompson Rdr: W Egan 56
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