Freed From Desire, for whom this was a first stakes score. She is now one of a trio of Narrow Creek-bred stakes winners trained by Peters, with three-year-old filly Sprinkles landing the Gr3 Three Troikas Stakes on New Year's day. Rounding out the stud's black type quartet is Stuart Pettigrew's fine galloper Bold Fortune. A daughter of Flower Alley, she first caught the eye with a smart victory in the Gr3 Yellowwood Handicap
and followed up in the Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge. At yesterday's Vaal meeting , this talented filly made it four wins in a row when turning on the afterburners to get up on the line over 1800m. Everett had snapped up her dam Plata Parana at auction with Bold Fortune in utero. As for Freed From Desire, her Swallow Stakes victory also boosted the fortunes of her sire Jackson, who started his stud career at birthplace Highlands, before moving to Heversham Park Stud in Gauteng last season.
She joins Pretty Young Thing and Eva Eileen as the third stakes winner for the triple Gr1 winning son of Dynasty. It is worth noting that all three are fillies, as are Jackson's Gr1-placed daughters Can You Feel It and Kailene. "Paul Peter also trained Freed From Desire's dam Musical Romance," remarked John. "A big, scopey mare, she has a striking Buffalo Bill Cody colt at foot and is once again in foal to him. In fact, I sent nine mares to him this past season, which tells you how impressed I am with his foals!" Musical Romance is a winning
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MJ puts another subject on the spot! 21 Narrow Creek-bred Sprinkles wins the Gr3 Three Troikas Stakes on 1 January