{"id":512,"date":"2010-11-10T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=512"},"modified":"2013-07-18T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:28:19","slug":"back-to-back-maribyrnong-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Back To Back Maribyrnong Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nArctic Command won the 1000m Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate for 2yos on Emirates Stakes day at Flemington just one year after his half-brother General Truce had achieved the same feat.\u00a0 The chestnut had drawn the grand stand barrier, and that is where jockey Dale Smith took him. Just after settling, a seagull swooped and slammed in to the gelding, before bouncing off in to the lap of Glen Boss. To his credit, Arctic Command did not flinch, and continued with the job at hand. The field had split and Arctic Command was always on the pace on the grand stand side. Dale Smith drove him to the line to hold off the fast finishing David Hayes trained colt, Aashiq.<\/p>\n

Arctic Command is trained by Wendy Kelly. His lead up included an impressive\u00a0four length win in an 800 metre barrier trial at Cranbourne on October 12 and an unlucky first start fourth in the Inglis banner race on Cox Plate day. Wendy now plans to give Arctic Command a break before aiming him at the Group 1 Blue Diamond next February. Wendy first spotted the chestnut at Lauriston farm.\u00a0 At the Inglis premier sale, her husband Kevin, made it known just how much he liked the colt. \u201cI don\u2019t care about his pedigree – Look at him, not his page!\u201d The yearling was purchased\u00a0for $55,000.<\/p>\n

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Arctic Command<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inglis Premier sales catalogue. The mare\u2019s page and stallion selection were not deemed commercial. However, General Truce won the Maribyrnong Plate and the Freeze colt received a late call up. Had he not made it in to the sale he would possibly have joined Lauriston\u2019s racing team, as did General Truce. \u201cHe would have looked great in the orange and green\u201d suggested Tanith O\u2019Brien, tongue-in-cheek after his win on Saturday. \u201cBut really I am very happy for Wendy Kelly and the connections. They have always spoken so fondly about him \u2013 he couldn\u2019t be with better people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Many others at the Inglis sale were equally impressed and the big chestnut. He spent more time out of his box than inside it. \u201cHe has a terrific temperament and he carries this confident \u201clook at me\u201d air about him that makes him very attractive\u201d said Lauriston\u2019s Thoroughbred Farm manager, \u00a0Paul Eden. His preparation and presentation is a huge credit to Paul and Kathy Eden and the team at Lauriston.<\/p>\n

General Resolve\u2019s family can be traced to Marscay stallions Jetball and Marwina, and was largely the motivation behind the decision to partner her with Freeze. Freeze is by Marscay and from Snowdrift. His siblings include Group 1 winner Snowland, Group 2 winner and Golden Slipper placegetter Portillio, Snippetson and others.<\/p>\n

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General Truce<\/p><\/div>\n

Interestingly, even though Freeze and General Resolve are bays, Arctic Command, like Jetball, is a chestnut.<\/p>\n

Prior to Saturday General Resolve had produced three foals \u2013 all winners with six figure earnings.<\/p>\n

Her first foal, Complete Control (by Rubiton) was a first start winner at Seymour, before beating Golden Slipper placegetter Portillio in a trial. She has been placed against subsequent Group 1 winners Estee and Sousa and was runner up in the Adelaide 2yo Magic Millions to Augusta Proud.<\/p>\n

General Resolve\u2019s second foal, General Truce, has also been competitive at the elite level. Along with winning the Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate, he was runner up in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude and was a fast finishing third behind Black Caviar in the Group 2 WFA Schillaci stakes in October.<\/p>\n

On Sunday at 6:45AM, less than 24 hours after Arctic Command\u2019s win in the Maribyrnong Plate, General Resolve had her fourth foal – A filly by Testa Rossa. The filly has been nick named Kelly.<\/p>\n

Photographs by Bruno Cannatelli<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Arctic Command won the 1000m Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate for 2yos on Emirates Stakes day at Flemington just one year after his half-brother General Truce had achieved the same feat.\u00a0 The chestnut had drawn the grand stand barrier, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}