MORE HIGHLIGHTS FOR SWEET LOU

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A MILESTONE AND TRACK RECORD - ALL IN A WEEK'S WORK FOR SWEET LOU

Sweet Lou is a sire who is continuing to make a huge impact on harness racing across both the North and South hemispheres. His progeny are getting results at all levels and rewarding those who have supported him and his progeny. He is the leading sire of 3-year-old's in Australia on stakes as well as leading sire of 2-year-olds on individual winners and second on stakes. In the last 10 days he has continued on with his fantastic streak of results with 22 winners across Australasia, and he even sired a milestone number and a track record breaker. See his main highlights below:


250 NEW ZEALAND BRED WINNERS
The Wairio meeting on Saturday saw Sweet Lou bring up his 250th New Zealand bred winner when JONJONDAGOOSEHASGONE (Washington VC dam) picked up his maiden victory at his third start. He was bred by James Paddon who remains in his ownership. Nathan Williamson did the training and driving. The 4-year-old gelding headed home a Woodlands Sired first five in the race. 


GOULBURN TRACK RECORD BROKEN
DON LOU (Life Sign dam) took out the $60,000 Goulburn Soldiers Club Merino Cup on Sunday, winning by over six metres in a mile rate of 1:56.3 for the 2760m race, more than five seconds faster than the previous record set in 2016. The 5-year-old gelding was bred by Harshell Investments Pty Ltd and is trained and was driven by Seaton Grima (Grima Racing) for his two owners. 

The win also brought up a double for SWEET LOU with his talented daughter and NSW Oaks contender MILLWOOD BLISS (Bettor's Delight dam) also winning at the meeting.


FIVE FROM FIVE IN AUSTRALIA
NO HEART THROB (Bettor's Delight dam) picked up his fifth win in a row from just six career starts to date when winning at Menangle on Saturday. It was the 4-year-old's fastest time, pacing the mile in 1:50.8 to win by over seven metres. He was bred by Birchbrook Breeding in New Zealand and was purchased by Michael Boots of Boots Properties Racing, who has been achieving plenty of success with all of his Sweet Lou progeny on both sides of the Tasman. Congratulations to them and also to trainer/driver Jack Trainor.


34 METRE WINNER
The Bathurst meeting last week saw BOULEVARDOFDREAMS (Real Desire dam) extend away from his rivals to win by over 34 metres. It was the second career win for the 3-year-old son of Sweet Lou who was bred by Dallas Harvey. He is trained and was driven by Matt Rue for his two owners.
 


Not to be outdone by their fellow Woodlands Sire, most of our other stallions also had recent impressive progeny performances:

DOWNBYTHESEASIDE
LINCOLN COVE (Bettor's Delight dam) brought up a DOWNBYTHESEASIDE sired quinella at Cambridge when beating TAKETHEPLUNGE (In The Pocket dam) to bring up his maiden victory. Lincoln Cove was bred and raised at Woodlands Stud.

Another Woodlands bred son, THE BEACH FANTASY (Dream Away dam) scored his fifth win at Yarra Valley.

PANDAIA (Artsplace dam) saw Birchbrook Breeding get another win in the last week with their Woodlands sired stock. They still own this 4-year-old mare and have sent her over to be trained by Richie Alchin, it was her first start in Australia.

AMERICAN IDEAL
It was a Menangle double for AMERICAN IDEAL on Saturday with SIMPLY SAM (Art Major dam) and VERY PRETTY (Live Or Die dam) both saluting the judge. The latter is heading to the Group 1 NSW Oaks on Saturday night where she is likely to be one of the favoured runners. Congratulations and best of luck to her connections including Peter Gleeson who still shares in her ownership.
Woodlands Stud are proud to have sired eight of the 10 runners in the Group 1 $200,000 NSW Oaks on Saturday night (two by American Ideal, five by Sweet Lou and one by Downbytheseaside) - best of luck to all of their connections!

LUCKY LOU WHITBY (Life Sign dam) picked up her maiden win at her second start at Gloucester Park last week. She was bred by Edwin Dewar who also had another AMERICAN IDEAL bred horse, AMERICAN MONARCH race twice and win twice in Australia last week!

JIMMYRAY (Sharvid Adios dam) picked up his fifth win for breeder/owner Trevor Cleave and trainer/driver John Morrison at Addington last week.

BETTOR'S DELIGHT
The success of BETTOR'S DELIGHT's progeny last week was headed up by an impressive performance in the Rangiora Winter Cup on Sunday by his son MO'UNGA (Christian Cullen dam). He took out the feature race of the day and picked up his seventh career victory. He was bred by the Whitelock's, was trained by Regan Todd and driven by Robbie Close. Congratulations to his team of owners.

QUEEN TYRON (Falcon Seelster dam) headed up a good week for his younger stock when the 2-year-old daughter won on debut at Addington. She was bred and is raced by our loyal clients the Neumann family. This win was one of three on the night for BETTOR'S DELIGHT with his trotting son CODY BANNER winning and also our own race-mare KAHLUA FLYBYE saluting the judge.

WHAT THE HILL
WHAT THE HILL scored another Australian winner last week with his daughter KEAYANG GUCCI (Lindy Lane dam) winning her first race by over seven metres. She was bred by Yabby Dam Farms.