25 Dec 2019Pretty To Sea closed off a memorable Boxing Day at Ellerslie for Cambridge Stud when she won the Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap at Ellerslie.
The farm had earlier celebrated success with the juvenile Taroni, who is now comfortably in the Karaka Million line-up.
Pretty To Sea enjoyed the strong pace and she thundered home from back in the field to confirm plans for a Group One tilt.
“The Lindsays have had such a run of bad luck so hopefully this cheers them up a bit,” trainer Stephen Marsh said.
There was good, genuine speed in the race and I’m just so proud and now onto the G1 Railway S.”
A half-sister to stakes winner Bonny O’Reilly (NZ) (O’Reilly {NZ}), Pretty To Sea was bred and sold for NZ$150,000 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale by Waikato Stud.
She is out of Pretty, who is a half-sister to the multiple Group 1 winners Glamour Puss and Vision And Power.
It’s also the family of the G1 Coolmore Classic winner Steps In Time (Danehill Dancer {Ire}).