Well-related mare Dazzled is making the most of her extended racing career with an impressive open handicap sprint success over 1300 metres at Ellerslie.

Our daughter of Pierro, who failed to get in foal this year, was coming off a runner-up finish in Rating 75 company at Tauranga and handled the rise in class with aplomb.

The Stella Artois 1500 Championship Final and the Westbury Stud Royal Descent Stakes are now among future options for Dazzled.

“She went to the stallion twice, unfortunately she didn’t get in foal, which means we can keep racing her all the way through,” trainer Lance Noble said.

“Potentially we may go to the final, but there’s also a 1400 metre fillies and mares’ race on Boxing Day as well which might suit.

“We haven’t really stepped her up further than 1300, sowe’ll just see. It will be one of the two.”

A cool ride from Warren Kennedy enabled the mare to post her latest victory at Ellerslie in fine style.

Last season’s champion jockey allowed Dazzled to drift back to second last before improving near the turn and unwound powerfully wide out on the track.

“She seems to go better when she gets a bit of room and Warren rode her very well, when she gets to the outside she can really letdown. It was very pleasing,” Noble said.

Dazzled is the last foal of the late Lucky Unicorn mare Capital Diamond, a member of the Eight Carat dynasty who was a gifted performer who won three races and finished third in the G1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas.

Her first foal was the G2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes winner Gift Of Power, who also triumphed twice at Listed Level in the Wellesley Stakes and Levin Stakes.

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The well-related Tycoon Prince put the writing on the wall at his previous start and he made good on that threat over 1150 metres at Te Aroha.

The Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray-trained three-year-old had finished runner-up at Pukekohe earlier this month and our strapping homebred and raced son of Written Tycoon went one better in style.

“He drew better this time and I said to Ryan to take a sit, he’s got good gate speed, and he finished it off well,” Murray said.

“He likes good ground so he should go on with it over the summer.”

Tycoon Prince broke quickly from the gates to settle in fourth spot before working into the clear at the top of the straight and responded well to rider Ryan Elliot’s urgings to prove too good in the run home.

He is the first winner for Vanity Queen, an English-bred mare we purchased at the Tattersalls Mares’ Sale with agent John Foote signing on our behalf at 125,000gns.

She was successful as a two-year-old and is a half-sister to the Listed Newbury Fillies’ Trial Stakes winner Volume, who also placed at Group 1 level in the English and Irish Oaks, and dam of the G1 Curragh National Stakes winner Quorto.

We sold Vanity Queen’s colt by Almanzor to Foote for$260,000 at Karaka earlier this year and she had a younger sister last season before visiting Embellish.

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Trainer Lance Noble will be looking for suitable upcoming black-type options for our progressive mare Frostfair.

The four-year-old has fashioned an excellent record and her latest victory romp over 1400 metres at Pukekohe was her third win from just seven appearances.

“She’s a big mare who has taken time, she’s never been out of the first four and we’ll look for a bit of black type next,” Noble said.

She was a touch tardy from the barrier and settled off the pace before rider Warren Kennedy angled her away from the fence before the turn.

Frostfair powered between runners in the straight to waltz home by 3.3l.

“She’s really coming along the right way and won with a lot of authority, she put the race to bed pretty quickly,” rider Waren Kennedy said.

We bred the daughter of Written Tycoon, who is out of the Commands mare Thames Court, a talented performer whose three victories included the G3 Alexandra Stakes and she was also a multiple black-type placegetter.

Thames Court’s Pierro colt was purchased by Busuttin Racing at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale last year for A$80,000.

Her Capitalist filly sold for $200,000 to Stephen Gray, Wattle Bloodstock and Toking at Karaka earlier this year and the mare is due to foal to Embellish.

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