Redoute’s Choice 3YOs open the throttle
Redoute’s Choice ‘s 2007 crop produced yet another head-turning debut winner yesterday when Best Choice (ex Jade Tiara by Bureaucracy) prevailed in a tough finish to the 1250m Maiden Handicap at Canterbury yesterday.
A full-brother to Group One-placed Sister Madly (who runs in Saturday’s STC Research S. G3), and half-brother to world champion sprinter Silent Witness, Best Choice was bred by Mr M. King and purchased for $275,000 by Apollo Ng at the 2009 Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
When asked how long since he’d had a horse as promising as Best Choice, his trainer Clarry Conners replied, “Probably Mouawad.” In a brief but stellar career in 1996 & 1997, Mouawad won seven, including three Group 1 races.
“I think he is a pretty special horse,” the trainer said of Best Choice. “I’ve got a really, really big opinion of him.”
Ninety minutes or so before Best Choice appeared in Sydney, Shadwell Stud’s 3YO filly Maraaseem (Redoute’s Choice-Warm Smytzer by Zabeel) won at Sandown in Melbourne, her second win in four starts from the David Hayes stable. Assistant trainer Tom Dabernig said of her afterwards, “She’s got a great temperament and constitution and is lovely and sound so we’ll push on from here and keep raising the bar.”
The reigning champion sire of Australia, Redoute’s Choice has had eight individual 3YO winners in the first six weeks of this season. He stands at Arrowfield at a 2010 fee of $176,000 (inc. GST).
