This Party girl rocks
BROADMARSH trainer Brendan McShane was not surprised when his stable newcomer Party in Style led throughout to score an impressive win at her Tasmanian debut in a class one handicap over 1009 metres in Devonport on Sunday.
Party in Style ($11) began her racing career in Victoria with the Matthew Ellerton and Mark Zahra stable but after seven starts that produced a maiden win at Kilmore in November last year, she was placed on the market.
That’s when prominent owner Charlie Beadman stepped in and paid $15,000
for the well-bred four-yearold on a William Inglis online sale. Beadman was keen to secure the-then three-year-old filly because she is well-bred being by Toronado from the Hard Spun mare Party Talk.
She was purchased with the intention of sending her to Levendi, the stallion the Beadmans and McShane are standing at Broadmarsh Stud this season.
“The plan with this mare has always been to breed with her and she will be covered by Levendi late this season, probably around December.” McShane said. “We will keep our options open as far as where she goes on the racetrack, but I would expect she
could make it to the decent races during the summer carnival. It will be a matter of waiting to see what she does next start and go from there.”
Connections are hoping Party in Style can be as strong over 1200n as she was last Sunday over the shorter trip.
“I would expect this mare to be able to run the same sectional times over 1200m that she did over 1000 and if that eventuates, we probably have ourselves a mare that will be capable of being very competitive in some of our quality races.
“She was unknown on the synthetic, but we definitely know now she is more than capable on it, but I believe she
is going to better when she steps out on the turf in Launceston.”
McShane said his team is breaking in the Dundeel colt they purchased at this year’s Adelaide yearling sale, and he is excited about his prospects.
“We paid $130,000 for the Dundeel colt bred by Gerry Harvey and the best part is he has retained a share in the colt,” he said.
AFTER having a race taken off him courtesy of an upheld protest in Devonport last Sunday week, trainer Nigel Schuuring emerged from last Sunday’s meeting with a winner in Madetobebroken that scored an emphatic maiden win over 1150m.
Schuuring’s four-year-old mare Has the Look was first past the post in a class one, but a protest lodged by the rider of the third placed horse, Gee Gee Can Win, lodged a successful protest claiming interference in the home straight.
The margin was 1-1/2 lengths, but stewards took a dim view of the horse darting in sharply, stopped Gee Gee Can Win in his tracks.
But as is often the case in racing, one door closed an another one opened for the battling trainer and given the way Madetobebroken treated his rivals, there are more wins to come.