Pink Diamond winner by Warrawee Needy

Exciting three-year-old filly Shes A Warrawee credited her world champion sire Warrawee Needy, who stands at Yirribee Pacing Stud, Wagga, with his eighth feature race winner when she captured the NSW Pink Diamond Stakes at Menangle recently.

The filly led throughout and hoisted a fresh lifetime mark of 1:52.2 for the flying mile with the last 800 in a sparkling 55.2 seconds. She has now won seven of her 15 starts.

The Pink Diamond triumph was the headline act of a brilliant month for Warrawee Needy.

Vite Monet, a four-year-old gelding, sent his stake tally over the $100,000 mark when he clocked a career-best 1:50.7 at Menangle, his seventh success at the Sydney headquarters’ track.

Warrawee Needy was also represented by the fast Albion Park winners Our Goat (1:50.2) and Edward Jay (1:52.9) and the duel Woodbine Mohawk Park, Canada winner Uncle Shank (1:49.6).

The Somebeachsomewhere millionaire Cattlewash, whose book is full and closed at Yirribee for this season, enjoyed spectacular success with his two-year-old progeny in North America during August.

The brilliant undefeated colt Beau Jangles took out the $227,000 Battle of Waterloo at Grand River Raceway in a new two-year-old track record of 1:51, along with two $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold legs in 1:51 and 1:52.8 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Unbeaten in six starts, Beau Jangles has won four OSS Gold Finals.

A pair of Cattlewash two-year-old fillies in Jay and A Clean Deal both won important classics in Canada.

Jay made a clean sweep of the Whenuswishuponastar Series when she won the $79,000 Final at Woodbine Mohawk Park in a lifetime best 1:51.4, while A Clean Deal kept her perfect record in tact by winning a $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold leg at Woodbine in 1:50.

Beau Jangles ($452,125) and A Clean Deal ($218,000) are the richest for their age, gait and sex in North America this year and A Clean Deal is the fastest filly.

Manolete, the winner of a prep of the New Jersey 3YO Classic in a career-best 1:50.6 at The Meadowlands, the two-year-old colt Tilthecowscomehome, who won a $117,000 Nassagaweya division in 1:50.6, and the OSS 2YO Grassroots victors Elmer Hanover (1:53.4) and Major Money (1:54) are among other recent winners sired by Cattlewash.

Cattlewash has maintained his stranglehold on the 2YO Sires’ premiership with $1,457,640, ahead of Downbytheseaside, Huntsville and Sweet Lou.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink