Mare Responds For First Group 1

[Wandering Eyes]

The connections of Prompt Response (Aus) (Beneteau {Aus}) are Everest dreaming after the 4-year-old mare backed up a pair of seconds on Saturday with a breakthrough first win in Group 1 company in the Tattersalls Tiara at Doomben. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott pupil has been consistent in black-type company throughout her career, and indeed had already picked up a pair of Group 2 wins this season: the G2 Breeders’ Classic going 1200 metres at Warwick Farm on Feb. 10 and the G2 Emancipation S. over 1550 metres at Rosehill on Mar. 31. Upped to a mile for the G1 Queen of the Turf S. at The Championships, Prompt Response had to settle for second, and she filled the same position in the June 9 G2 Dane Ripper S. over this 1350 metre track and trip.

Taking full advantage of a rail berth on Saturday, Prompt Response stalked the pace and cut the corner into the straight under Blake Shinn. After opening up an advantage of about three lengths once they straightened, she stayed on to win by 1 1/4 lengths from a fast-finishing Shillelagh (Aus) (Savabeel {Aus}), with Super Cash (Aus) (Written Tycoon {Aus}) staying on for third.

Co-trainer Adrian Bott said connections would be interested in fielding offers from Everest slotholders.

“We would now like to train her as a purely speed horse and look at a place in the The Everest. I think she would be up to that race,” he told Racenet.com.au. “The phone won’t be turned off, don’t worry.”

Pedigree Notes…

Prompt Response is the second Group 1 winner for the late champion first-season sire Beneteau, joining the marathoner Lasqueti Spirit. The dam, Prompt (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), had set a precedent with the sire when producing the Group 3-winning gelding Prompt Return (Aus) by him the year before Prompt Response, and her first foal was the listed-placed Diamond Glow (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}). She has a yearling colt by Dissident and a colt foal by Medaglia d’Oro to come. Prompt Response is inbred 3 x 3 to Danehill, that former multiple champion sire having sired Beneteau’s sire Redoute’s Choice and Prompt’s sire Exceed and Excel, both of those champion sires in turn.

Saturday, Doomben, Australia
TATTERSALLS TIARA-G1, A$500,000, Doomben, 6-23, f/m, Open, 1350mT, 1:18.51, Good.
1–PROMPT RESPONSE, 57.0, m, 4, by Beneteau
1st Dam: Prompt, by Exceed and Excel
2nd Dam: Amnesia (NZ), by Desert Sun (GB)
3rd Dam: Please Remember (NZ), by Don’t Forget Me (Ire)
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-R K Hamer & M S Sowerby; B-Mr R
Hamer QLD; T-G Waterhouse & A Bott; J-B Shinn; A$305,000.
Lifetime Record: 27-6-10-1, A$1,481,350. *Full to Prompt
Return, GSW-Aus, A$362,990; 1/2 to Diamond Glow (Bel
Esprit), SP-Aus, A$161,935. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for
the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Shillelagh (NZ), 57.0, m, 6, Savabeel–Trocair, by Flying Spur.
O-C R Grace & Mrs S Grace; B-C R Grace, Central, NZ; T-C J
Waller; J-M J Walker; A$102,500.
3–Super Cash, 57.0, m, 5, Written Tycoon–Super Bucks, by Dash
for Cash. O-S B Millar, P J Robinson & M S Millar; B-Millar
Racing and Breeding SA; T-Andrew Noblet; J-Jamie Kah;
A$52,500.
Margins: 1.3 len, 1.4 len, 1.5 len. Odds: 3.20, 13.00, 9.00.
Also Ran: Savanna Amour, Daysee Doom, Invincibella, Invincible Gem, Siren’s Fury, Moss Trip, Volpe Veloce, Champagne Cuddles, Just Dreaming, French Emotion, Missrock, Pedrena, Miss Wilson. Click for the Racing Post result. Click for the free Arion.co.nz catalogue-style pedigree.

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