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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
She’s Bulletproof. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Racing Photos) Trainer Charlotte Littlefield is confident that She’s Bulletproof will ‘go to a different level’ in the Group 3 Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes (1200m) at Sandown on Saturday. The Shooting To Win mare has only finished outside of the placings once in her ten-start career, with her most recent effort being a second-place finish in the Listed Black Pearl Stakes (1200m) at Geelong on January 4. Since then, She’s Bulletproof impressed in a Pakenham jump-out on January 21, winning with authority. “Sage Duric rode her and she won by a long margin,” Littlefield told Racing.com. “The way she accelerated, it was like she developed another string to her bow and really let down a different way that I’ve not seen before. “She’ll go to a different level on Saturday. I’m going there a lot more prepared. I think last start, she may have just gotten away from me a fraction, (I) had her a little bit heavy. “We’ve done a few things differently, we’ve managed to rip a few kilos off and I think she’ll be going into this race a lot better physically so I think she’ll really show a different finish on Saturday.” She’s Bulletproof will be ridden by Mark Zahra for the first time in Saturday’s Group 3 contest. Horse racing news View the full article -
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Multiple stakes winner Last Leaf (Not This Time) (hip 56) brought the highest price at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Winter Mixed Sale Tuesday when bringing a final bid of $140,000 from Joey Peacock. Peacock purchased the 6-year-old broodmare prospect in the name of Senor's Senoritas to support his recently retired G1 Saudi Cup winner Senor Buscador (Mineshaft). Last Leaf was the only six-figure offering at the one-session Mixed Sale, which was downsized from its two-day 2024 format. In all, 212 horses sold Tuesday for a gross of $3,098,700, an average of $14,617 and a median of $7,500. From a catalogue of 342 head, 270 horses went through the ring and 58 were reported not sold for a buy-back rate of 21.5%. A filly by McKinzie (hip 70) was the auction's highest-priced short yearling. Bred by Don and Jackie Duppenthaler and Wade and Donna Russell and consigned by Summerfield, the dark bay filly sold for $97,000 to Lambholm, agent. She is out of Picolata (Bellamy Road). Peacock Continues Buscador Buying Spree in Ocala Joey Peacock has been active at the breeding stock sales from November to January in preparation for the start of Senor Buscador's stud career next month at Lane's End. Tuesday's sale topper was his 13th purchase of the season. “Marette Farrell is our agent and our advisor on this,” Peacock said Tuesday. “She talked to me about this mare [Last Leaf] yesterday and said she was really excited about her and hoped that we could get her for a price that was within our budget. It looks like that all came together, so we are really excited to have her.” A five-time stakes winner and four times graded-placed, Last Leaf (Not This Time) RNA'd for $300,000 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale three months ago. On the board in 20 of 30 starts, the mare won seven times and earned $622,058 for Monarch Stables. She was consigned Tuesday by G. Martinez Training, agent. “We like to see mares that are coming off the racetrack that have done a couple of things: run early in their careers–2 and 3-year-old wins are important–and shown a lot of speed and durability,” Peacock said of his wish list for mares heading to Senor Buscador's first book. Senor Buscador was a three-time graded winner on the racetrack. In addition to his victory in last year's Saudi Cup, he won the 2023 GII San Diego Handicap and 2022 GIII Ack Ack Stakes. He was also second in last year's GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational and third in the G1 Dubai World Cup. He will stand his first season at stud this year at Lane's End for $7,500. Peacock purchased four mares to support the new stallion at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, led by Kelsey's Cross (Anthony's Cross) (hip 710), who was purchased for $225,000. At the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Peacock acquired eight mares, led by Candy Kitty (hip 1345) for $95,000. “This one makes 13,” Peacock said of the roster of mares he has acquired for Senor Buscador. “And then we have another mare that we already own that is my wife's that we will breed to Buscador also, so we are up to 14 mares to get him kicked off. We still might shop. We don't have to buy any more, but I told Marette if she sees something that she is absolutely in love with, then we can talk about it. But I feel like we have enough.” Last Leaf | Lauren King Eleven of the newly acquired mares were purchased in-foal and Peacock said the plan will be to sell those babies. “We will have those to sell either as weanlings, or short yearlings, or yearlings, just depending on where they are at the stages of different sales,” he said. “We will likely sell all those and then recycle the money into more mares for that second year.” As for Senor Buscador's first foals, Peacock said, “We will likely sell quite a few of them, but we are going to pick a couple out of every crop probably to race ourselves. I like to put horses in [trainer] Todd Fincher's hands because I trust him and he's done such a wonderful job for us. I would love to see him get his hands on some of the Buscador babies. Whether we buy some at auction or keep some of the ones that we raised, I will make sure that we put a couple every year in Todd's hands.” Fincher currently has three of Senor Buscador's siblings in training: 4-year-old filly Aye Candy (Candy Ride {Arg}); 3-year-old Rose A (Hard Spun); and 2-year-old The Hell We Did (Authentic). “[Fincher]'s got all three of those following right behind Buscador,” Peacock said. “He leaves some pretty big horseshoes to fill, but hopefully they can rise to the occasion.” The mare responsible for it all is the remarkable Rose's Desert (Desert Gold), whose first four foals are all stakes winners. She produced a filly by Into Mischief last year and is currently carrying a colt by Uncle Mo. Her daughter, stakes-winner Our Irish Rose (Ghostzapper) is due to foal a Not This Time baby any day now. Senor Buscador | Benoit Peacock is full of confidence as Senor Buscador begins his stud career. “We are excited,” he said. “We believe wholeheartedly in his bloodlines and his pedigree. The Mineshaft, A.P. Indy bloodline is phenomenal and our mare, Rose's Desert, everything she has had can run. So we feel really good about his chances. It's going to be up to him to prove it, but we are certainly going to support and try to give him the best chance to succeed. We feel like he has a really good chance of being an important sire.” The post Last Leaf Has Senor Buscador Date After Topping OBS Winter Mixed Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Miss Roumbini after winning the 2025 Magic Millions Fillies & Mares. Photo: Darren Winningham After a successful three-start campaign, culminating in victory in the Magic Millions Fillies and Mares Classic (1300m), the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Miss Roumbini will be aimed at the Sydney autumn carnival. The Zoustar mare’s next likely target is the Group 2 Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on March 1. “She’s enjoying a well-deserved week off in a nice green paddock up in Queensland and then she’s hopping on a bus back down to our Rosehill stables,” Kent Jnr told Racing.com. “There’s a lovely program of mares races for her in Sydney which will really suit. There’s a lot of options. “She could run at the end of February or early March.” The Group 3-placed Miss Roumbini has won four of her past five starts, including the Eureka Stockade Plate (1200m) at Ballarat. Kent Jnr added that if she can maintain her form, the four-year-old may also target a race like the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) at Rosehill on March 15. Miss Roumbini is currently a $15 winning hope with horse racing bookmakers for the Coolmore Classic. Horse racing news View the full article -
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