Champagne flows as Cath salutes in Australia

A last start third behind the boys in the G3 Ming Dynasty Quality, Street Sense filly Champagne Cath dropped back to her own sex, leading all the way at Rosehill Gardens on September 28 to record victory in the Listed Reginald Allen Quality in Australia.

An impressive debut winner during her juvenile season, connections had always held this filly in high regard, but not much had gone right since.

Having her fourth run this time in, jockey Jay Ford took the filly straight to the lead, and as they rounded the home turn, the filly was still travelling very well within herself while those behind her were starting to struggle.

Holding off the late charge of More Than Faith and She’s Bella, the Chris Waller-trained Champagne Cath won by a half length margin.

Bred by Newhaven Park Stud, Champagne Cath is out of the six-time-winning El Moxie mare Mimzical, herself a daughter of the Listed placed Snaadee mare Beautiful Mimzar.

As the sire of 13 Stakes winner including G1 winners Aubby K and Sweet Reason, Street Sense, who remains the only horse to ever win both the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and the Kentucky Derby stood at Darley in Japan in 2013, but will now return to Darley America for the following breeding season.