Brantley bred to be good
Brantley bred to be goodBrantley advanced strong claims to being the best pacer in South Australia today when he downed a smart field at the Geelong metropolitan meeting last weekend.
It was his 10th success for the season and the seventh from his past eight starts. Brantley, a five-year-old, has only been sparingly raced, having averaged 13 starts a season. In four seasons of racing Brantley has won 16 races and has been 10 times placed from 53 starts for $88,927.
By the Artsplace horse Art Major, he is out of Asabella, by In The Pocket from Mio Bellisimo, by Smooth Fella from Krina Bella, by Lordship from the NZ Derby winner Bellajily, by Van Dieman.
Brantley is a half-brother to the multiple Group winner Ohoka’s Bondy 1:53.6 ($388,148), the former top NZ racemare Dancing Diamonds 1:57.8 ($343,276), the Gloucester Park winner Code Red 1:55.1 ($132,639), the Menangle victor Elderberry Stride (1:51.7) and promising three-year-old Hands On (1:55.5), a winner at Invercargill recently.
The grand-dam Mio Bellisimo was only lightly raced but she left nine winners including the Queensland Derby winner Torbello (1:56.1), Alert Falcon 1:54.4 ($297,895), The Gammalite winner The Cavalier 1:56.8 ($248,434) and the NZ Group 2 winner Black Flash.
A daughter of Mio Bellisimo in Christisimo 1:57.2 (by Christian Cullen) figures as the dam of the high class WA pacers Miss Sangrial 1:55.5 ($244,748) and Sangue Reale 1:53.6 ($181,640).
Unbeaten Damysusfrom the family of Preux Chevalier
Damysus, a most impressive winner at Globe Derby Park last
weekend, and who is undefeated in three starts to date, is one of the best
four-year-olds in SA at present.
A late
bloomer, the gelding broke down before he ever raced and has been a difficult
horse to produce at his peak but proved himself a young pacer of good ability.
By the Mach Three horse Auckland Reactor, he is out of the Western Terror
mare Ninkasi (1:58.8), dam also of the Melton winner and Southern Cross
finalist Sumarian Artist (1:57.2). Ninkasi, who won 12 races, was a half-sister
to the Melton winner Omniscient (1:54.5), being out of Golden Angel, by Golden
Greek from Heather Rainbow, by Afella Rainbow from the Thurber Frost mare
Heather Frost.
Damysus is
the best winner from this family in recent years but in an earlier decade it
produced a champion pacer in Preux Chevalier, who won eight Group 1 races
including the Inter Dominion and Miracle Mile.