英國聖烈治錦標亞軍 Unsung Hero下年 將會在希斯馬房,目標直指下年墨爾本杯
Exciting staying prospect Unsung Heroine will be raced by Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum when she joins the David Hayes stable next year.
The Group Three winner and Group One English St Leger runner-up was purchased for 950,000 guineas ($A2.375 million) at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale at Newmarket, England.
Prominent European agents Hubie De Burgh and Dermot Farrington acted on Sheikh Hamdan's behalf, the Hayes stable has confirmed.
A three-year-old by northern hemisphere time, the lightly-raced filly, having had only four starts, will be aimed towards the 2009 Melbourne Cup.
By High Chaparral, a six-time Group One-winning son of Sadler's Wells, Unsung Heroine is out of a half-sister to Group One winner Posidonas.
She won over 2000m and then took out the Group Three Cork Gives Thanks Stakes (2400m) at her first two starts in Ireland.
Unsung Heroine then finished second to subsequent US Breeders Cup Turf winner Conduit in the Group One St Leger (2950m).
Third home in the St Leger was the English Oaks winner Look Here.
In her most recent outing Unsung Heroine was runner-up to Crystal Capella in the Group Two Newmarket Pride Stakes (2400m) on October 18.
Crystal Capella has won five and has run second in the other two of her seven starts.
Lindsay Park and Sheikh Hamdan have combined for several feature race winners in Australia including At Talaq (1986 Melbourne Cup and MacKinnon Stakes), Almaarad (1989 Underwood Stakes, and Cox Plate), Azzaam (1993 Sydney Cup), Jeune (1994 Melbourne Cup, Underwood Stakes, 1995 C F Orr and Queen Elizabeth Stakes), Fraar (1993 Caulfield Cup), Istidaad (1999 Australian Cup) and Tawqeet (2006 Metropolitan and Caulfield Cup).
Sheikh Hamdan has had three Blue Diamond Stakes victories with Mahaasin (1990), Nadeem (2006) and Reaan (2008).
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