LEICESTER SQUARE, the most valuable horse ever to win at Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley, took out the opening event on the program at their Denman Cup meeting on Sunday October 3. Knocked down for $2million to a Macau buyer at the Inglis Easter yearling sale, this gelded 4-year-old is currently trained by Paul Messara on the Arrowfield stud at Scone.
Now raced seven times for two wins, the other being at Scone on debut and a third and a fourth at Rosehill, he is by Redoute’s Choice and is from Lavishly, one of the seven mares in Australia bred by Arrowfield to southern hemisphere time using Japan’s now deceased super sire Sunday Silence.
Another is Sunday Joy, dam of John Singleton’s magnificent More Than Ready race mare More Joyous. Singleton also has another of these Sunday Silence mares in Touched by God, dam of two winners as her first foals. They are Oceana Boss, a Red Ransom colt who has won five races and been stakes placed in Japan, and Well Handled, a Redoute’s Choice gelding who racing for Dynamic Syndications has been in the first two in seven of ten starts. He has won twice in Sydney, NSW.
Arrowfield have four of the Australian bred Sunday Silence mares, including Leicester Square’s dam Lavishly and Sunday Valentine, producer of two stakes performers. One of them is El Daana (Redoute’s Choice), winner of the VRC Edward Manifold Stakes and SAJC Queen of Adelaide Stakes, third MRC Angus Armanasco Stakes and fourth in Adelaide in both the South Australian Derby and Australasian Oaks, and the other is Hus Der Lieften, a winner twice in Sydney and fourth in the Group1 STC Golden Rose.
by Brian Russell
