Lot 89<\/a> at the Inglis Ready2Run Sale on Thursday. She will be set for sale by Baystone Farm who pinhooked the filly for $200,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale earlier this year.<\/p>\nBen Hayes said he was not expecting Torture to be so early.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was nice to run one-two in the race, and to get some black type with a filly is very important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought she won very well. She loomed into it and hit the front and did everything right today, so it\u2019s a big thrill for the whole team. Two-year-olds are something that we really enjoy doing, and coming out and winning the first two-year-old stakes race of the season is a big thrill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is well-bred and now a stakes winner, so there are a couple of big ticks there and she is a beautiful looking horse with much more improvement to come, which is exciting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bred and co-owned by Sir Owen Glenn\u2019s Go Bloodstock, Torture is a half-sister to Robert Sangster Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Ruthless Dame (Tavistock), with the pair out of the stakes-placed Keeper (Danehill) mare Ruthless Lady. Ruthless Dame was bought by Kasumi Yoshida for $2 million at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Torture was raised and sold by Gordon Cunningham\u2019s Curraghmore, with Lindsay Park and Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock going to NZ$250,000 to secure the filly at the New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Book 1 Yearling Sale earlier this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor her to come out and win The Debutant, probably wasn\u2019t what we were thinking when we bought her,\u201d Hayes said of the filly, who was an October 20 born foal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut she just kept improving and kept showing us that she could get there. Her trial leading up was good and we thought why not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a stakes winner now, so maybe the Blue Diamond or something like that would be right up her alley.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winning rider Ethan Brown said the filly had come on in leaps and bounds from a jumpout at Caulfield a fortnight ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy feedback after that trial here at Caulfield was that she probably lacked a bit of substance, but she is very professional and that will take her a long way,\u201d Brown said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFunnily enough, she feels like she has strengthened again from that trial, they put the winkers on, which proved to be the winning move. The boys are such terrific trainers in general but are especially good with a young horse.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom that gate, I gave her a squeeze to get her into the bridle, she lobbed into a beautiful position, and she got up on the bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had to dodge heels there for a bit coming around the corner, but she really flowed into it well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we hit the front a bit soon, but luckily those winkers were on, she kept her focus and was strong through the line.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Wednesday\u2019s victory, Torture became the first individual winner for Sword Of State, who has been represented by one other runner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stallion\u2019s first crop of yearlings were all the rage at the sales across Australasia earlier this year and Wednesday\u2019s result will be welcome for buyers who put their faith and money on the line to snare his progeny.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In New Zealand, 33 of Sword Of State\u2019s yearlings realised NZ$4,540,300, selling for an average of NZ$137,584, headed by a colt who sold to Mulberry Racing for NZ$540,000. Meanwhile, in Australia, the stallion\u2019s eight yearlings to sell at public auction made $1,690,000, with a recorded average of $211,250.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In fact, such was the clear message from the buying benches, Cambridge Stud responded by increasing the stallion\u2019s fee from $15,000 to $20,000 (all fees plus GST) for the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Torture is raced by a syndicate headed by passionate Richmond supporter John O\u2019Neill and sports silks featuring the famed yellow and black.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hayes team have saddled the first two winners of Victorian two-year-old races after colt Eurocanto (Per Incanto) won the Maribyrnong Trial (Listed, 1000m) earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Torture\u2019s victory continues a great run of form for breeder Sir Owen Glenn who bred last Saturday\u2019s Toorak Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Transatlantic (Sntizel).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFittingly, he bred this filly\u2019s Group 1-winning sire Sword Of State and was keen to support him,\u201d Curraghmore\u2019s Gordon Cunningham said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a big supporter of our industry, and he will get great satisfaction from that win. He happily remained in the ownership after she was purchased by Lindsay Park and the mare has a lovely yearling filly by Proisir.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Lydia Symonds Listen Cambridge Stud\u2019s first-season sire Sword Of State (Snitzel) got his stallion career off to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-502654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115380706616850607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}