Hips Don't Lie Set for Slipper

The tenacious Karaka Premier Sale graduate Hips Don't Lie (Stravinsky x Procure by Centaine) produced a gutsy run under Craig Williams to win the Group 2 Perfect Vision Stakes (1200m) at Canterbury Park on Saturday.

Beating Anatomica and Love And Kisses to win by a head, the David Hayes-trained juvenile secured her fourth win from six starts with her share of the A$300,000 prize purse boosting her earnings to A$393,250.

Hips Don't Lie's debut win back in October was just a preview for her dominant win in the Listed VRC Herald Sun Sprint (1000m) on Melbourne Cup Day, earning herself a spell in the paddock.

Fresh from the break she won the Listed VRC Talindert Stakes (1100m) in February before running a solid sixth in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m).  In her last start she was a close second to the Gai Waterhouse-trained Amelia's Dream in the Group 2 STC Golden Slipper Stakes (1100m).

Her next assignment is the world's richest race for two-year-olds, the A$3.1 Million Group 1 AAMI Golden Slipper at Rosehill on 19 April, which was won last year by Saturday's Group 1 Queen of the Turf Stakes winner, Forensics.

Bred in partnership by Whakanui and Trelawney Studs, she was purchased by James Bester Bloodstock at the 2007 Karaka Premier Sale for NZ$200,000 and is one of 46 stakes winners from just five crops to race by Cambridge Stud's shuttle sire Stravinsky. The dual Group 1 winning son of Nureyev is also the sire of one of the star fillies of the 2005-06 Australian season, multiple Group 1 winner Serenade Rose.

Centaine, the sire of 11 Group 1 winners, is now making his mark as a broodmare sire with 13 of his daughter's progeny winning Group 1 races to date including the outstanding Alamosa (O'Reilly) plus Oaks winners Legs (Pins), Tully Thunder (Thunder Gulch) and Giovanna (Blues Traveller) and Derby winners Guyno (O'Reilly) and Amalfi (Carnegie). Entered in the National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka from 11 - 13 May are 14 broodmares by Centaine and four by Stravinsky.