The winners keep flowing for Authorized

While Castello Aragonese continues to look like an exciting prospect in the northern hemisphere for his sire Authorized – recording his second consecutive Stakes win on Sunday – the Darley stallion has been enjoying a run of success across Europe lately, with some extremely impressive winners in recent days.

On 14 July, three-year-old colt Masserano made a successful seasonal debut with a four-length win in France, while a few days later Andre Fabre’s well-bred  filly Samana Cay won well over 2000m at Vichy. Samana Cay is out of the multiple Stakes-winning Mark Of Esteem mare Tessa Reef who is herself out of a full sister to none other than Miesque.

On 20 July, Zamdy Man progressed from a first-time-out place at Sandown when storming to a four-length victory at Newmarket. The following day, Authorization made all to take a competitive 2000m maiden at The Curragh, winning by a length with the third-placed horse a further four-and-a-half lengths back. 

On 23 July, Godolphin’s Surprise Moment was a hugely impressive winner at Windsor on her racecourse debut, flying from the rear of the field to beat clear favourite Courage by half a length. Her paternal half-brother Zanotti also gave a good account of himself in third – finishing some 14 lengths ahead of the rest of the field.

Authorized also looks to have a smart three-year-old in the making in Guarantee, who has now recorded two wins from three starts, most recently at Ripon where he won by three-and-three-quarter lengths.

With six Black type performers on the board so far this year, and many of his runners now building on the promise they have already shown, it could well be an Indian summer for Authorized.

Set to arrive at Darley Kelvinside towards the end of August to cover his fourth southern hemisphere book of mares at a fee of $22,000 (inc. GST), Authorized has been well supported by breeders to date with his first crop of yearlings selling up to $200,000 earlier this year in the sales ring. With only a handful of his initial crop named so far, some to watch out for include the bay colt Boast, a half-brother to triple G1 winner Yell, Save The Date, a grand-daughter of G1 winner Chlorophyll and the brown colt Complacent, who is closely related to triple G1 winner Dracula.

For more up to date information on Authorized, or any of the remainder of Darley's current stallion roster, please click here to view the 2012 Online stallion brochure.