Lamasery secured further black-type success for his sire Commands by taking out the Colin Stephen Handicap over 2400m at Rosehill on September 24. After travelling just off the speed throughout, jockey Brendan Avdulla got the gelding into the clear where he showed great determination to claim the prize in the last few strides carrying the top weight of 57 kilograms.
Bred by Woodlands Stud and out of Quest for Fame mare Verse, Lamasery has now won 9 out of his 15 starts and made it back to back wins at stakes level.
Commands is coming off a highly successful 2010-11 season which saw him earn honours as the leading sire of individual winners setting an unprecedented benchmark of 155 winners. The sire of ten Australian Stakes winners last season, highlighted by the G1-winning Erewhon and G2 winner Soul, as well as juvenile Stakes winners Altar and Atomic, Commands is now the sire of 41 individual Stakes winners.
Standing at Darley Kelvinside at a fee of $66,000 (inc GST), Commands has achieved G1 winners in each of his last three seasons and is right up there with the best stallion-sons of the immortal Danehill to stand in Australia.
