Well may you ask these questions.
Quite simply the name of the 3y.o. filly that won convincingly at Warwick earlier today was an amalgamation of the names of her dam and sire with a little poetic licence – Emilydelago and Monashee Mountain – and the fact that the elder statesman of the O’Brien family who bred and now races the filly lived his early days not far from the winter holiday resort, Lake Mountain near Marysville, Victoria.
Why Warwick? As the filly was by a Queensland based stallion she was nominated for the QTIS and QTIS 6OO bonus schemes and when she was not selected for any of the major sales venues as a yearling the O’Briens through their Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm sent her to Queensland based trainer, Neville Saunders to
compete in QTIS races. Being a 3y.o. and QTIS qualified it was a foregone conclusion that Lake Mountain should do her early racing in Queensland. And today she and trainer, Neville Saunders justified that decision when she went to Warwick to compete in a 3y.o maiden worth in excess of $10K to the winner if QTIS 6oo qualified.
Warwick is a long way from Corinella and without the aid of TV coverage we can only report that she won by 2 lengths paying $11.00 for the win, (no TAB). But Lake Mountain became the 58th individual home-bred winner produced by Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm who will be presenting an outstanding draft at the 2013 Melbourne Premier Sales and Adelaide Magic Millions Sales.
