Break Card heads treble for Danzero

Winners every week – that’s what Danzero has delivered in Australia during July and his excellent run continued today with three winners in less than two hours.

Attractive three-year-old filly Break Card (ex Fleur de Jazz by Fairy King; bred by Torryburn Stud) opened Danzero’s account when she scored by an authoritative 2.3 length margin over 1200 metres at Randwick. It was her fourth career victory, and her third this season, taking her prizemoney to just under $180,000. Torryburn Stud is also the breeder of this season’s talented Group 2-winning juvenile filly Chance Bye (by Snitzel ).

As it happens, Break Card is raced by a syndicate managed by John Baxter, whose Ruane Stud bred Danzero’s next winner for the day, the four-year-old gelding Brawled (ex Next To Me by Covetous). He won at Townsville, carrying 60.5 kg and breaking 58 seconds for 1000 metres to score his fourth, and most valuable victory in 12 starts.

Less than sixty minutes after that, four-year-old gelding Gusrick (ex Sculpture’s Blue by Arch Sculptor; bred by Mr B.N. Allan, Mrs M. Allen and Mr & Mrs P. Shanahan) broke his maiden at Newcastle, in the process becoming Danzero’s 501st individual winner.

These performances took Danzero’s win tally for the month to thirteen and his total wins for the season to 132. For the seventh consecutive season his total prizemoney exceeds $3 million, and he is yet again among Australia’s top 25 sires.

Other metropolitan winners by Danzero during July are three-year-old geldings Antiguan (Warwick Farm, 1600m, 14 July) and Stoneblack (Moonee Valley, 2040m, 3 July), and four-year-old mare Glaze (Morphettville, 1250m, 3 July).

Outstanding Hong Kong G1 winner Happy Zero, G2 winner Extra Zero and SW Danzylum head the list of Danzero’s 95 southern hemisphere winners in 2009-10.

Danzero, the sire of 7 Group One winners among his 35 stakeswinners, stands the 2010 season at Arrowfield at a fee of $16,500 inc. GST.