Marquardt Gets Her Just Deserts
Patinack Farm's promising filly Marquardt gained a well-deserved stakes victory with a strong win in Saturday’s Snowhite Stakes (Listed) over 1400m at Sandown Park. Patinack fillies filled first and third in this important black-type contest with Happy Hippy running a career-best to finish third.
Both fillies are by the emerging sire Shamardal (USA) and are going to be highly valuable additions to the Patinack broodmare band when their racetrack careers conclude.
Marquardt was always traveling strongly in this fillies contest and she produced a first-class turn of foot in the straight to strike the front inside the final 100m and defeat the well-fancied Europa Point by a half-length.
"It was a good win, she deserved it," trainer John Thompson said afterwards. "She settled nicely midfield and it was a nice, tough win. She's been around with the best and she's a nice filly."
Winning jockey Blake Shinn was equally impressed. "We had a nice position during the race and I was always confident I would be able to reel in the leaders," he said. "She was very strong to the line. It was a very good effort."
Thompson suggested Marquardt had done enough this preparation and would be sent for a well-deserved spell. "We might look at something near the end of the autumn for her, there's a couple of fillies races there, and then probably on to Brisbane for the winter."
With VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume, Marquardt is the only other female stakes winner for Shamardal. As a two-year-old she was placed in the Magic Night Stakes (Gr 2) and the Widden Stakes and finished a very creditable sixth in the Golden Slipper Stakes, beaten two and a half lengths in a rough race that saw her exit with an injury that took a little time to recover from.
Outside of her debut win over 1100m at Rosehill, Marquardt has only ever run in Group or Listed company and she has more than held her own with the promise of more to come. Having cost $NZ100,000 as a yearling at the NZ Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale, Marquardt has now earned $225,625.
Her dam Centrefold Angel, by the champion broodmare sire Centaine, is a half-sister to Ballarat Cup winner McGuane and this is the immediate family of Group 1 winners Ballroom Babe and Dandy Andy.
Both fillies are by the emerging sire Shamardal (USA) and are going to be highly valuable additions to the Patinack broodmare band when their racetrack careers conclude.
Marquardt was always traveling strongly in this fillies contest and she produced a first-class turn of foot in the straight to strike the front inside the final 100m and defeat the well-fancied Europa Point by a half-length.
"It was a good win, she deserved it," trainer John Thompson said afterwards. "She settled nicely midfield and it was a nice, tough win. She's been around with the best and she's a nice filly."
Winning jockey Blake Shinn was equally impressed. "We had a nice position during the race and I was always confident I would be able to reel in the leaders," he said. "She was very strong to the line. It was a very good effort."
Thompson suggested Marquardt had done enough this preparation and would be sent for a well-deserved spell. "We might look at something near the end of the autumn for her, there's a couple of fillies races there, and then probably on to Brisbane for the winter."
With VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume, Marquardt is the only other female stakes winner for Shamardal. As a two-year-old she was placed in the Magic Night Stakes (Gr 2) and the Widden Stakes and finished a very creditable sixth in the Golden Slipper Stakes, beaten two and a half lengths in a rough race that saw her exit with an injury that took a little time to recover from.
Outside of her debut win over 1100m at Rosehill, Marquardt has only ever run in Group or Listed company and she has more than held her own with the promise of more to come. Having cost $NZ100,000 as a yearling at the NZ Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale, Marquardt has now earned $225,625.
Her dam Centrefold Angel, by the champion broodmare sire Centaine, is a half-sister to Ballarat Cup winner McGuane and this is the immediate family of Group 1 winners Ballroom Babe and Dandy Andy.
