TWO SYDNEY APG YEARLINGS SECURED FOR OVERPORT LODGE
Overport Lodge trainer Mark Jones extended his yearling stocks by venturing into the Australian Pacing Gold market at Randwick, Sydney, on Saturday, February 27, 2016.
He secured two lots with strong NZ connections.
The Rock N Roll Heaven-Joyfuljoy filly, secured by Overport Lodge trainer Mark Jones at the Sydney APG Sales.
They were a filly by Rock N Roll Heaven and the first foal from former classic-winning NZ filly 1:51.6 USA winner Joyfuljoy, for $65,000, and a Somebeachsomewhere colt from Trinny Bromac (Falcon Seelser-Tanisa Vance) for $47,000.
Prepared by Matt Day, the Rock N Roll Heaven filly is eligible for the NSW Challenge, plus the Australasian Breeders Crown and Bathurst Gold Crown.
Mark raced Crystal Sar and Alexis to finish third and sixth respectively when Joyfuljoy won the 2009 Harness Jewels 3YO Diamond at Ashburton in a then NZ 3YO fillies mile record of 1:54.4.
Joyfuljoy (Mach Three-Joyfulbelle), then raced by Ian Dobson from the Allstars stable and driven by Blair Orange, scored 11 NZ wins and also numbered the 2009 NZ Sires Stakes 3YO Fillies Final among her top NZ wins.
Also the runnerup to Lauraella in the 2009 Great Northern Oaks, Joyfuljoy furthered the second half of her career in North America with six additional US wins, taking her earnings to $480,442.
“Joyfuljoy was a brilliant age group filly. The whole family is full of smart fillies so I am glad to get her for what I did,” Mark said.
He was also attracted to her being a “lovely” big filly by Rock N Roll Heaven, whose fillies have been very successful world- wide.
Joyfuljoy is a sister to Pride N Joy, who qualified in 1:59.5 (1609m) as a two-year-old, but went straight to stud unraced.
She’s also a half-sister to 2011 Southland Oaks winner Jumpforjoy (p2, 1:56.5; p3, 1:55.8, seven wins and seven placings from just 21 starts for Clark Barron, earning $94,655) and minor 3YO winner, Fullojoy, who only raced at three, for one win and three placings in eight starts.
Grand-dam Joyfulbelle (1:56.3) was also a smart filly winning eight and being placed 10 times from only 22 starts for $58,798, for Southland trainer Clark Barron.
Joyfuljoy, shown defeating Rakarebel in premier 4-5 win pace at Auckland on December 31, 2009, in 2:41.1 (2200m).
Joyfulbelle ran fourth in the 2003 NZ Oaks (won by Pullover Brown in a NZ record time at the time), and was also a second to Coburg in the Group Two 2004 Premier Mares Championship at Addington.
Bettor Joy, a yearling Bettor’s Delight filly from Joyfulbelle, sold for $80,000 at the NZ Premier Yearling Sales last week.
Joyfulbelle’s half-sister Hit The Switch, a minor NZ winner, has won 20 in the USA and taken a record of 1:54.6, while others to shine in recent seasons from the family include good Australian winner (Heza) Panamach (p3, 1:58.2, 16 wins & $A109,057) and
smart Southland pacer Statham (six wins and four seconds from 13 starts for $46,486).
Mark’s Somebeachsomewhere colt buy is from a Falcon Seelster sister to the former good Peter Bagrie-trained pacer Ross The Boss (1:50, US), winner of 10 in NZ and a further 24 in the US, with earnings now over $400,000; and also to minor NZ winner Habeebee (1:53.6, USA), now the winner of over $60,000.
Grand-dam Tanisa Vance is also the dam of Tallyho Bromac (1:54.9, 19 wins & $A97,094), Kotare Jaegar (p2, 1:56.9, 10 wins & $A72,343); Extra BG, the dam of former NZ 3YO mile record holder Kotare Mach (p3, 1:53, 16 wins & $A268,138); and Tanisa Bromac (TT, 1:58.1), the dam of good WA winner (Black) Mr Mach (1:56.5, nine wins & $A82,239), Tijuana Bromac (10 wins & $69,433), Twitter Bromac (one wins) and promising 3YO pacer, Torrid Bromac (1:56.7 mile rate, 2000m, three wins from nine starts).
He’s also from the family of Kotare Yoland (1:54.7), 19 wins & $A190,310), winner of this season’s Group 3 Cobram Pacing Cup; Play More (1:52.2 US), Grinaldi (1:57.3, 10 wins), The Oyster Man (1:54.4, US), Mystic Master (1:59, five wins), (Our) Major Vance (2:00.4, 12 wins) and Tullow (1:53.4, 11 wins & $A81,198, winner of this season’s Listed Canberra Cup).