The final few weeks of the 2007/08 racing season gave us good reason to look forward to the new domestic year of competition. A couple of our resident stallions made pleasing headway during the winter months, by virtue of notable metropolitan victories interstate…

Easily the biggest milestone of July ’08 was the Rosehill Gardens success of Lavished. A first-crop daughter of HALF HENNESSY, Lavished displayed admirable battling qualities to score in a close finish on the Sydney metropolitan program, attracting worthy praise in the aftermath.

Of course, Lavished was also her sire’s first winner when scoring at Kembla Grange. Following her second successive victory for the Bede Murray stable, the south-coast trainer mentioned that the AJC Oaks was a race he would target with the daughter of HALF HENNESSY later in her Classic season.

Very much to her credit, Lavished finished her juvenile racing season with prizemoney of $98,800. The fact that her Rosehill win was posted over 1400 metres gives every reason to believe that she will prove effect over a range of distances during the remainder of her promising career.

ZARIZ is another Riverdene Stud stallion heading in the right direction. During July alone, the multiple Group winning sprinter had winners in three different states of Australia, with his profile probably the largest in South Australia.

Indeed, at Cheltenham on July 25, Zaazorro ran an impressive 58.17 seconds to beat 11 other rivals in the $22,000 SAJC Port Lincoln Handicap over 1000m. Notably, just two days later Zaazorro’s full-brother Zaazip saluted in a Sabis Two-Year-Old Handicap staged at Port Augusta over 1100 metres.

Zaazorro and Zaazip proved to be two of 27 individual winners for ZARIZ in 2007/08.

On the BOBS Stallion Activity Listing of 2007, ZARIZ is accredited with 12 individual bonuses amounting to $75,000. As worthy as the figure might be, it was the prolific MARWINA that again did best of Riverdene Stud’s stallions in respect to this acclaimed incentive scheme.

In typical fashion, MARWINA chiming-in with no fewer than 21 individual bonuses of approx. $105,000 in yet another consistent season of performance by this ultra-reliable breed.

Enemy of Average’s acclaimed half-brother Exceed And Excel continues to impress the GB/Ire racing industry with his first crop 2-year-olds to race. At much the same time as he was officially recognised as Australia’s leading first season sire, E&E had his 13th 2-year-old winner in the northern hemisphere.

Only a few shares remain available for purchase in Enemy of Average. Considering the exploits of his half-brother, this is a rare opportunity indeed!

Pedigree of the Month: Zazzorro & Zaazip

Two victories posted by full-siblings Zazzorro & Zaazip within 48 hours of each other serve as a very positive sign for owners of MARWINA mares looking to use ZARIZ.

Damsire of Zazzorro and Zaazip is none other than Blazing Sword, a son of Marscay, sire too of MARWINA, a prolific Riverdene Stud stallion with the make-up to prove very effective as a broodmare sire. Indeed, the fact that MARWINA also carries Vain through his own dam, the celebrated Orwhina, is very much in his favour in this capacity.

The Toowoomba maiden success of Commizarations also substantiates these claims. This gelding is also a product of ZARIZ over a Biscay-line stallion, in this case Opera Prince, a notable son of Bletchingly.

Significantly, of ZARIZ’s 2007/08 winners, the likes of Worthily (damsire Boutade), Chicken Bob (damsire Marscay), Zarvista (damsire Paint The Stars) and Undine (damsire Zephyr Zip) are all from daughters of Star Kingdom (Ire) line stallions. Including Zazzorro and Zaazip, the principal representative of the line four of five cases is Biscay.