The only surprise about Poetic Justice’s success at Te Rapa was that it took the four-year-old so long to break through.

Our homebred son of Almanzor relished the step up to 2400 metre to post his maiden success at his 15th appearance and followed eight previous runner-up finishes.

“He has been really frustrating with the number of seconds he’s run,” trainer Tony Pike said.

Poetic Justice settled well back on the fence before edging forward near the turn and the four-year-old wound up strongly in the closing 250 metres to put away his Rating 65 opposition.

“He’s got plenty of ability and hopefully he’ll get a fait of confidence from this,” Pike said.

“He is a promising stayer and will continue to improve.”

Poetic Justice was bought out of our Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale draft for A$330,000 and is a son of the English-bred Street Cry mare Prose Poem, who was secured on our behalf by agent John Foote for 65,000gns at a Tattersalls Mares’ Sale.

Prose Poem is out of the G1 French Oaks winner Latice, a half-sister to two-time elite level winner and sire Lawman, who also left the dual Listed winner Fencing.

Poetic Justice is an older half-brother to the promising Pierata filly Sea Poem, sold by us for A$160,000 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, who has a win and a placing from two starts for Lindsay Park.

We sold Prose Poem’s colt by Sword Of State to Te Akau’s David Ellis for $50,000 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale in January and the mare is currently in foal to Chaldean after producing another son of Sword Of State last season.

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Regency Happy Star’s hot run of form in Hong Kong continued with the son of Lonhro completing the second leg of a homebred double for us at Sha Tin.

He followed the earlier winning lead of Embellish’s son Chateau Le Peche when he accounted for his Class 5 rivals over 1400 metres under rider Alexis Badel.

The well-related Regency Happy Star kicked off a treble for trainer David Eustace and his third victory and two placings from his last five starts.

“He’s had a terrific season, just gaining confidence and relaxing very well now in his races,” Eustace said.

“Obviously, the distance and the track were perfect for him and he’s been ridden beautifully by Alexis.

“It’s going to start to get a bit tougher, but hopefully we can have one more go in Class 5. I think we probably should for one more run.”

Regency Happy Star was purchased out of our New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale draft in 2021 by the late Stuart Hale for $200,000 and was a trial winner here before relocating to Hong Kong.

He is a half-brother to G1 Spring Champion Stakes winner El Castello and the first foal of the Fastnet Rock mare Word Games.

She is a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Fiveandahalfstar (BMW Stakes, Victoria Derby) and has produced a pair of fillies by Almanzor in the last two season and is in foal to our new stallion Chaldean.

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Multiple Hong Kong placegetter Chateau Le Peche has posted his breakthrough success at Sha Tin.

Trained by Jimmy Ting, the four-year-old was belatedly successful over 2000 metres in the hands of Jerry Chau.

We bred and sold Chateau Le Peche who is a son of our resident sire Embellish and the late Rock Of Gibraltar mare Lovetrista.

She was a gifted performer who won the G2 Waikato Gold Cup and Listed Soliloquy Stakes and finished third in the G1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas.

She has produced six winers at stud and her last foal is a yearling sister to Chateau Le Peche, bought out of our New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale draft by Wallace Thoroughbreds for $65,000.

From the famed Eight Carat family, Lovetrista is out of the two-time Group One winner Tristalove who left elite level success story and sire Viking Ruler.

The family continues to triumph at Group 1 level with recent G1 Australian Guineas winner Feroce the latest to add his name to the roll of honour.

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