First-season sire Ad Valorem, whose first southern hemisphere runners are due to hit the track later this year, sired his first Black type winner on 2 June when his daughter Samaden took the Listed Premio Alessandro Perrone, run over 1100m at Rome’s Cappanelle racecourse.
Always prominent, the two-year-old filly was settled just off the early leader and quickening well on the inside rail once past the 200m marker, battled impressively close to home to win by a head.
This was her second victory, having broken her maiden by six lengths over 1200m on 11 May. Samaden is the first foal to race out of the Monsun mare Salpiglossis, a half-sister to Italian 1000 Guineas winner Sadowa.
Ad Valorem, who rounded off an unbeaten juvenile campaign with victory in the G1 Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket, was placed in two of Europe’s premier mile contests – the G1 St James’s Palace Stakes (where he was second behind Shamardal) and the G1 Sussex Stakes – at three before returning at four with an outstanding victory in the G1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. He has sired three individual winners to date and stands at Kelvinside at a fee of $11,000 including GST.
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