Bright Future for Za Moulin Rouge

The well-bred two-year-old filly Za Moulin Rouge made a cracking start to her career yesterday with a smart debut win in the A$80,000 Listed Queen Adelaide Stakes (1050m) in South Australia.

Trained by Mark Kavanagh, Za Moulin Rouge (Street Cry x La Sizeranne) jumped well from the ace barrier to sit third in transit and raced away from her rivals 200 metres from home to win by a comfortable 3.5 lengths.

Za Moulin Rouge pictured as a yearling

Kavanagh went to $320,000 to secure the filly from Trelawney Stud at New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2012 Karaka Premier Sale. Bred by Jack Maronde, Za Moulin Rouge’s stakes win seems to have justified her sale price as she boasts a strong pedigree being a stakes-winning daughter of the Group 2 Winter Stakes winning Stravinsky mare La Sizeranne who hails from the family of champion sire Lonhro.

Za Moulin Rouge was one of five horses purchased by Mark Kavanagh at Karaka 2012 where he spent a total of $860,000.

Kavanagh was again active at this week’s Karaka Sales purchasing two horses including a Street Cry colt from Westbury Stud at Lot 74 for $220,000. 

Brent and Cherry Taylor’s Trelawney Stud has already had considerable success in Australia’s stakes races this season courtesy of the Karaka graduate and Cox Plate winner Ocean Park. The stud sold a yearling half-brother to Ocean Park (Lot 330) to Peter Moody last Tuesday for $775,000.

Trelawney Stud also sold a colt by the Karaka Million winning sire Bernardini from La Sizeranne (Lot 225) at this year’s Karaka Premier Sale to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for $170,000. In addition, Cambridge Stud sold a half-sister to La Sizeranne by their first season sire Tavistock (Lot 404) to Peter Moody for $125,000 at the same sale.

Za Moulin Rouge was the 60th stakes winner for her sire Street Cry who celebrated two stakes winners in Australia yesterday – the other being the two-year-old filly Metastasio.