Second Stakes win for Detours

Settling in a mid-field position after jumping away from a wide barrier, four-year-old Ad Valorem mare Detours kept up her good second-up record, recording a tough win in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast on 4 May.

A winner of the G3 How Now Stakes first-up last campaign during the Melbourne Spring, the Peter Snowden-trained mare was ridden to perfection by jockey Damien Brown to win by a short neck, defeating Karuta Queen and Tiger Hill filly Punch On to maintain her 100% win record at the trip of today’s race.

A winner of five races from 15 starts and over $380,000 in earnings, the Ad Valorem mare was bred by Darley and is out of the Octagonal mare Hairpin, a three-quarter sister to the dam of the recent G3 Chairman’s Stakes winner Hioctdane as well as a half-sister to the dam of Strategic’s G3-winning, G1-placed Aichi.

The victory of Detours is the second Stakes win in the space of a few days for a daughter of Ad Valorem after the win in the United States of Julie’s Love, who was also winning her second career Stakes race.

With six G1 or G2 performers in his first two Australian crops, including G2 winners Free Wheeling, Pied A Terre and Meliora , Ad Valorem will stand the forthcoming breeding season at Kelvinside at a fee of $11,000 (inc. GST).