Athiri provided yet another example of the significance of Lonhro in the Australian breeding world when she scored a dominant victory in Saturday’s Listed Nudge Stakes at Eagle Farm.
A filly conceived when her sire was a mere teenager, Athiri is one of 90 Stakes winners for the 22-year-old Lonhro who carried his championship qualities as a racehorse to similar heights as a stallion, a role in which his winners-to-runners ratio runs at 72.5 per cent.
The win was Athiri’s fifth and her second in succession at Listed level and made her eligible to run in the $1 million Magic Millions Fillies and Mares at the Gold Coast on Saturday 16 January.
Athiri won on debut as a two-year-old, showing considerable talent in some of Australia’s best juvenile races, but she failed to add to that success at three.
