With his star colt Cool Archie set to run as favourite in this weekend’s Group I BRC JJ Atkins (1600m), Newhaven Park’s Cool Aza Beel kept the momentum going with a new winner at Doomben on Wednesday in Kahlua Girl.
From the in-form Paul Shailer stable, Kahlua Girl was overdue for a win after placing at her first three starts and then running sixth on that atrocious Gold Coast track in the Group III Ken Russell Classic won by Beadman.
She bounced back here to score a determined head win for Michael Rodd in the 1200m maiden beating the fast finishing favourite Crash the Party, a daughter of Brave Smash (Jpn).
A $40,000 Magic Millions purchase form Newhaven Park for Shailer Racing/Julian Blaxland Bloodstock (FBAA)/High Calibre Racing, Kahlua Girl is the third winner from four foals to race from well bred Flying Spur mare Down the Hatch.
A daughter of Group II winner Toast of the Cast, Down the Hatch is a half-sister to the dam of Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth, now one of the most exciting young sires in New Zealand.
Newhaven Park sold a full sister to Kahlua Girl at Inglis Classic this year for $30,000 to Matthew Smith Racing.
A Group I winner by Savabeel from an elite Australian female family, Cool Aza Beel stands this spring at Newhaven Park at a fee of $16,500.
