75th stakeswinner worldwide for Hussonet
Hussonet posted his 75th stakeswinner worldwide, and his seventh in Australia this season when his three-year-old daughter Girl Hussler (ex Vecchia Signora by former successful Arrowfield sire Snippets) won the BRC Daybreak Lover Plate 1400m LR at Eagle Farm on Saturday in a smart 1.22.43.
It was very nearly a memorable trifecta for the champion sire son of Mr. Prospector as Latin News (ex Email Me by Danehill) finished an unlucky third, beaten for second by Tromso, and Hus Der Lieften (ex Sunday Valentine by Sunday Silence) was fourth.
Bred & co-owned by W. Bugno, Girl Hussler is trained by David Payne who told Thoroughbred News, “She is a very good filly, I think people underestimated her. She should have won her last race carrying 58kg and she had already met Tromso and beat him.
“She will go to the paddock now. She is a young filly and she has done enough.”
Girl Hussler is Hussonet’s second Australian three-year-old stakeswinner in 2009-10, following Latin News’ Gosford Guineas LR win in April. Latin News then enhanced his record considerably with a very fine effort for third behind Albert the Fat and Melito (by Redoute’s Choice ) in the BRC BTC Cup G1 on 15 May.
Three races after Girl Hussler’s victory, Hussonet’s five-year-old son, and Bellerive sales graduate, Ego’s Dare (ex Almond Essence by Seattle Slew; bred by Gainsborough Stud Australia Ltd & Arrowfield Group Ltd) put more black type on his record when he ran third in the QTC Cup G2. He’d previously won the AJC Hall Mark S. LR in April.
Hussonet, Australia’s leading active sire of Group One winners, is available to approved mares for foal shares only in 2010.
