Lady Shenandoah Caps Arrowfield 24 Hour Stakes Surge

Tara Madgwick - Sunday March 16

When exceptional three year-old filly Lady Shenandoah won the Group I ATC Coolmore Stud Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday she put the finishing touch on a remarkable 24 hours for Arrowfield Stud bred and sold horses.

Lady Shenandoah is the first 3YO filly since subsequent Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy to win the Coolmore Classic as a 3YO- image Bradley Photography

Read about the win of Lady Shenandoah here.

Arrowfield’s John Messara was in awe of Lady Shenandoah’s tenacity following today’s victory.

“She’s good, she’s very good, you can’t do more than what she’s done so far,’’ Messara said.

“You just don’t see it. You don’t see horses winning three Group 1s in their first seven starts. She’s unbelievable. She’s had a tough little campaign and really been tested but she’s delivered at every point.

“It’s also another big result for Snitzel, he’s having a bumper season yet again. There’s not a week goes by without another Stakes horse for him and it didn’t surprise me to see this filly come out and do what she did today.’’

Arrowfield will offer Lady Shenandoah’s Maurice half brother (ex Star Pupil) at next month’s Easter Sale at Riverside as Lot 187, as part of a draft that also includes siblings to the likes of Switzerland, Shoals, Super Seth, Kenedna, Profondo, Estriella and others.

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“He’s going to be popular, isn’t he,’’ Messara said.

“We’ve got some lovely horses coming to Easter, gee it’s a nice draft and I’m really very excited to get back to Riverside in a couple of weeks to offer them to the buying bench.’’

Lazzura was a $500,000 MM purchase from Arrowfield - image Bradley Photography

Earlier in the day Lazzura (3f Snitzel) won the Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes – read here.

Skyhook was a $575,000 MM purchase from Arrowfield - image Bradley Photography

Skyhook (2c Written Tycoon) also won the Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes to earn his crack at the Golden Slipper – read here.

Verona Rose was a $40,000 Inglis Classic purchase from Arrowfield - image Bradley Photography

On Friday, unbeaten filly Verona Rose (3f Castelvecchio) won the Group III Kembla Grange Classic, read here.

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