The Peter Snowden-trained Parables looks to be yet another potential star for her sire Lonhro after recording an impressive victory in the G3 Silver Shadow Stakes at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
Sitting out the back in the 1200m event the Woodlands Stud-bred filly unleashed a powerful kick up the rails to win by a length going away.
“She’s very exciting and hopefully she goes on from this, but in my mind I feel confident she will,” Peter Snowden told Racenet. “With that turn of foot it will take her a long way.”
The other Group Three event on the card, the Up And Coming Stakes, was taken out by Canny Lad three-year-old Blackball, another Woodlands Stud graduate out of the Grand Lodge mare Excommunicate, who was winning for the second time. Less than two lengths away in third was the Street Cry colt Sea Lord, a $400,000 yearling purchase at NZB’s Premier Yearling Sale.
The 1400m Listed race earlier in the day went the way of the consistent Strategic mare Illuminates, who was runner-up to Typhoon Tracy in the G1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes in April and already has two other Stakes victories to her name. Illuminates was bred by Gerry Harvey and is a daughter of Dazzle Light, by Danzero.
Rounding off a successful day for Darley-sired runners in Sydney, Pinwheel, by Lonhro, narrowly missed out on victory in the Listed Shimano Show County Quality Handicap when finishing second by half a length, while at Moonee Valley Lonhro sired another Listed place-getter, The Ruffian, who was runner-up in the Essendon Nissan McKenzie Stakes.
