A diamond career

An $80,000 Melbourne Premier purchase Alinghi was trained by Lee Freedman.

As a 2YO she won Victoria’s richest race for 2YO’s – the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes. At 3 she won the G1 Newmarket Handicap – a sprint race won by some of racing’s greats including Placid Ark, Schillaci, Bernborough, Wakeful, Ajax, Takeover Target and Weekend Hussler.

During Alinghi’s short career she beat a number of G1 winners including Hollow Bullet and another three-year-old champion – Fastnet Rock.

Alinghi was never unplaced until her last start in Australia (her sixteenth start), when she finished fourth in the G1 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick.

Arrowfield Stud negotiated to purchase the filly and she was then sent to the United States where her race conditioning was taken over by US Racing Hall of Fame trainer Robert Frankel.

In her first start racing in the Stud’s colours Alinghi won the Grade 3 Ballston Spa Handicap(1700m) at Saratoga on 30 August 2005 before finishing 8th in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes at Keeneland in Kentucky. The mare unfortunately had to be retired after that start when she suffered a tendon injury at trackwork.

Alinghi arrived at Arrowfield on 24 Jan 2006 and was covered in her first season at stud by Champion Sire Hussonet (USA). This mating produced a filly called Line Honours (in keeping with the nautical theme of her dam’s pedigree).

Line Honours is currently in training with Lee Freedman.