Encryption's Cifrado MM Bound After Stakes Win No 4

Breednet - Sunday December 15

Encryption’s high-quality son Cifrado landed stakes win number four and first for this season in the Listed Ascot Green Lough Neagh over 1300m at Eagle Farm.

Eurfeka Stud's super consistent Encryption

After jumped strongly from his outside gate, rider Boris Thornton resisted the urge to push on and let his mount drift back to last before coming with a strong circling run and had the race in his keeping a good way from home, defeating Prince Of Boom (Spirit Of Boom) by 2.2 lengths with Strait Acer (Headwater) third.

Cifrado had won the Spirit Of Boom Plate (G2) and Qld Sires Prodice (G2) as a juvenile before a few indifferent runs as a three year-old saw him gelded before winning the Vo Rogue Plate (G3) last December.

His Lough Neagh victory came after two runner-up efforts at his two runs from a spell this time and he will now press on to the Magic Millions meeting at the Gold Coast in January.

“Three big runs on heavy tracks is a great effort,” said Thornton.

“Rex has always had a great opinion of him as have I. I still don’t think we’ve seen the best of him yet.”

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The win takes his record to five wins, six seconds, and a third from 21 starts with earnings of $1,355,025.

Bred by Black Soil Bloodstock, Cifrado was a $320,000 purchase for Cliff Little from the Eureka Stud draft at the MM Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Cifrado is one of two stakes winners for Excites mare Madame Fly, a half-sister to Group III winner Chapter And Verse and has also left Listed winner Miami Fleiss but sadly died in 2021.

Encryption stands at Eureka Stud at a fee of $11,000 and is currently safely ensconced in the top 10 stallions of his third-season cohort by earnings and winners, a position he also maintained as a first and second season sire.

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Race Result - Ascot Green Lough Neagh LR 1300m

Eagle Farm Track: Heavy(10) Time: 1:17.99
1
Cifrado
- 4g Encryption (AUS) x Madame Fly (AUS) (Excites (AUS))
Tnr: R G Lipp Rdr: Boris Thornton 59.5
MM Gold Coast Yearling Sale $320,000
Seller: Eureka Stud, Cambooya, Qld
Buyer: Cliff Little
2
2.2
Prince Of Boom
- 6g Spirit Of Boom (AUS) x Dazzling Display (AUS) (Red Dazzler (AUS))
Tnr: R L Heathcote Rdr: V Duric 59
Spirit Of Boom
MM Gold Coast March Yearling Sale $20,000
Seller: Eureka Stud, Cambooya, Qld
Buyer: Adrenaline Thoroughbreds
3
3.6
Strait Acer
- 5g Headwater (AUS) x Money Wanted (AUS) (Wanted (AUS))
Tnr: A J Cummings Rdr: M Rodd 56
Headwater
Inglis Ready2Race Sale $25,000
Seller: WBF Thoroughbreds, Robertson
Buyer: R Wade
Inglis Australian Weanling Sale $20,000
Seller: Vinery Stud, Scone
Buyer: Rathden Bloodstock Services / WBF Thoroughbreds
4
4.7
The Drover
- 8g Bon Hoffa (AUS) x Purrpurrperam (AUS) (Mossman (AUS))
Tnr: John Holcombe Rdr: Ms N Beriman 56
5
5.7
Ovidius
- 7g Snitzel (AUS) x Tears I Cry (USA) (Chester House (USA))
Tnr: K R Kemp Rdr: Justin Huxtable 56
6
7.3
Midnight In Tokyo
- 5m Kobayashi (AUS) x Orabelle (AUS) (Casino Prince (AUS))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Rdr: Bailey Wheeler 54
7
12.4
Gently Rolled
- 5m Press Statement (AUS) x Exultation (AUS) (Lonhro (AUS))
Tnr: Bryce Heys Rdr: Angela Jones 54
8
23.7
Royal Merchant
- 5m Merchant Navy (AUS) x Seventhchic (AUS) (Seventh Reason (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher Rdr: Kyle Wilson-Taylor 58
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