Evaporate crowned a stellar period for his sire across the Tasman when he produced a gallant performance to land the thick end of the stake in Saturday’s Gr.3 Sandown Stakes (1500m).
The Ben, Will and JD Hayes-trained four-year-old is a Little Avondale Stud homebred son of resident sire Per Incanto.
“He had an outstanding week in Australia with eight winners, capped off by Evaporate,” Little Avondale Stud principal Sam Williams said.
The farm had also earlier celebrated a victory at Te Rapa with the Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott-prepared She’s All That.
Evaporate was sold through Sledmere Stud’s draft at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for A$330,000 on behalf of Little Avondale, who wisely remained in the ownership.
The multiple Group winner and $3.5 million The Kiwi (1500m) runner-up had also overcome a hiccup in his lead-up to the Sandown feature.
“He was carrying topweight (59kg) and missed a bit of work with a virus, they got on to it early and it was fantastic to see him back,” Williams said.
“The Hayes boys have done a wonderful job with him at Lindsay Park and the Golden Eagle (A$10 million, 1500m) is his main target and now he’s also got the Toorak (Gr.1, 1600m) in front of him.”
Evaporate is a son of the unraced Animal Kingdom mare Savanna, whose two foals to race have been successful.
“He’s from my favourite family of Sound Lover, she was an incredible mare whose progeny won around 60 races,” Williams said.
“The family has had four stakes winners by Per Incanto, Evaporate, Belluci Babe, Pure Incanto and Magnum.
“Savanna is in foal to him again and hopefully she’s carrying a filly so we can keep it.
“I sold a Bivouac filly (for $100,000) out of her last year, Jim Bruford bought her and he’s got a smile from ear to ear because Bivouac got his first Group One winner at the weekend, so it was a double whammy for him.”
Meanwhile, She’s All That impressed in her first-up victory over 1200m at Te Rapa in the Little Avondale silks to take her record to two wins from eight appearances.
“She hadn’t had a race day start for some time and I thought in the last 100m that her fitness may have told, but she had her ears back and when she hit the line put them straight forward like a good horse,” Williams said.
“It’s great for the syndicate, they’re a great bunch and one of the lease syndicates we do and a lot of them were also in Roch ‘N’ Horse and Belluci Babe.”
She’s All That is a daughter of former Little Avondale resident Time Test.
“He’s second on the sires’ premiership for individual winners and for prizemoney, I might have to get a boat and got to Turkey and sneak him back out!” Williams said.
She’s All That is out of the Per Incanto mare Imadreamer, who had a filly by Profondo last season before a successful visit to Hello Youmzain. – LOVERACING.NZ News Desk
