The Chris Waller-trained Summer Dash (Shamardal)produced an excellent effort on Wednesday afternoon at Canterbury to take the three-year-old handicap over 1400m by a length.
Jumping away from the inside barrier, jockey Tim Clark allowed Summer Dash to find his feet before forcing his way through a narrow gap with a furlong to go to record an impressive victory.
The sire of not only this season’s dual G1 winner Faint Perfume, but a further 11 southern hemisphere Stakes horses, Shamardal currently has the best winner to runner strike rate of any of the top-20 stallion in Australia, with the win of Summer Dash only further enhancing the reputation of the sires ability to produce quality runners. With the lucrative Brisbane Winter carnival only a few weeks away, Summer Dash is a prime candidate to head north and continue his sire’s winning ways.
Out of the Diesis mare Elegy, Summer Dash was bred by Mr PK Siu and is raced by Tony Bott’s Evergreen Rich Syndicate. From the family of fellow Darley stallion and 2006 World Champion three-year-old Bernardini, Elegy foaled a bay colt to another of Darley’s leading sires, Commands last season.
Shamardal will stand the 2010 breeding season at Kelvinside at a fee of $66,000 including GST.
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