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51 CHANCES FOR SLIPPER GLORY
John O’Shea has declared his group of Golden Slipper nominated juveniles ‘the best group of running horses’ he’s assembled for next year’s richest two-year-old race in the world, the Golden Slipper.
“Very strong, I’ve got a really good bunch of running horses this year,” John said.
“We’ve got a lovely cross section of young horses heading into the new season.”
The best stallions in the land are represented in the group with five by the sire of two Golden Slipper winners, Redoute’s Choice, two by the soon to be crowned 2007/08 Champion Stallion, Encosta De Lago, two Flying Spur’s, the sire of the 2007 Golden Slipper winner Forensics and three by Sebring’s sire, More Than Ready.
“More Than Ready is a proven sire that really excites me,” said John.
“A lot of time people go for fashion and they don’t sit down to analyse statistics.
“He had eight individual Stakes winners in his first crop but was probably overshadowed by a young Redoute’s Choice that was taking all before him at the time.”
On the first season stallion front the stable looks to have the bases covered with five by Fastnet Rock, two Not A Single Doubt’s and a Charge Forward, the horse, trained by John, that finished second in the best Golden Slipper of modern times behind the Triple Crown winner Dancer Hero.
Finishing behind Charge Forward that day were the champion three-year-olds Alinghi and Fastnet Rock.
“A freshman stallion I’m really keen on is Fastnet Rock,” he said.
“We’ve got a very nice Charge Forward in the batch that we expect to run early and we’ve also got a couple of very nice Not A Single Doubt yearlings.”
Not to be left out John O’Shea Racing also has three yearlings by the soon to be crown Champion Freshman Stallion for the 2007/08 season, Exceed And Excel, two General Nediyms, two Red Ransom’s and a Hussonet.
“We’ve had a bit of luck with the General Nediym’s this season and I have a couple that are from the same mould,” he concluded.
Below is the full list of yearlings nominated by John O’Shea Racing for the 2009 Golden Slipper.
| Anabaa/Primal Motion |
Fastnet Rock/Speaker |
O’Reilly/Irish Lies |
Anabaa/Tell Someone |
Fastnet Rock/Winona |
One Cool Cat/Ciao |
Charge Forward/The Flying Nun |
Favalon/Savarin |
Pins/Glitzy |
Commands/Morning Dews |
Flying Spur/Foscat |
Red Ransom/Cool Chick |
Danzero/Covet Thee |
Flying Spur/Polygogonal |
Red Ransom/Sydney’s Quest |
Danzero/Grosvenor Gardens |
General Nediym/Bella Moxie |
Redoute’s Choice/Dottoressa |
Dehere/Senorita Lucy |
General Nediym/Madame Flurry |
Redoute’s Choice/Gone On Sheila |
Elusive Quality/Gatana |
Hawk Wing/Cabella |
Redoute’s Choice/Jade Tiara |
Elvstroem/Anissa Kahira |
Hussonet/Perfect Zero |
Redoute’s Choice/Staging |
Encosta De Lago/Dressed To Impress |
Invincible Spirit/Calm As A Lady |
Redoute's Choice/Tracy's Element |
Encosta De Lago/Silver Robe |
Lonhro/Latte |
Reset/Only Vanda |
Exceed & Excel/Let’s Get Even |
More Than Ready/Corporate Queen |
Savabeel/Heads Or Tales |
Exceed And Excel/Lacandona |
More Than Ready/Madam Bligh |
Shamardal/Gorgeous Guru |
Exceed and Excel/Shaye Spice |
Mossman/Sovereign Duchess |
Sharmardal/Mrs Kahn |
Fastnet Rock/Bella Corona |
Not A Single Doubt/Snip Snip |
Tale Of The Cat/Zumanity |
Fastnet Rock/Partial Eclipse |
Not A Single Doubt/Venticello |
Zabeel/Lady Diva |
Fastnet Rock/Rare Insight |
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