The Group I BRC Tatts Tiara is the last Group I of the Australian racing season and went the way of quality Beneteau mare Prompt Response, who was foaled at Newgate Farm for her owner breeders Ron Hamer and Mark Sowerby.
Prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, she was second in the Tatts Tiara last year and returned to go one better, racing to an easy length and a quarter victory in the 1350 metre sprint as favourite with Blake Shinn in the saddle.
“We decided to ride her aggressively and dictate the race to them. When Daysee Doom went around us to lead she had the run of the race,” Bott said after the race.
“She is a top-class mare and now she has the extra statistic to show it.
“I would now like to train her as a purely speed horse and look at a place in The Everest (at Randwick on October 13). I think she would be up to that race.”
Prompt Response has the overall record of six wins and 11 placings from 27 starts with earnings in excess of $1.4 million.
A sister to 2014 Group III VRC Maribyrnong Plate winner Prompt Return, she is the fourth foal of the Exceed And Excel mare Prompt whose first two foals are stakes-placed Diamond Glow and Hong Kong winner Mr Right.
Prompt is now in the ownership of SF Bloodstock and has a yearling colt by Newgate Farm’s Australian Horse of the Year Dissident that sold for $525,000 at the recent Magic Millions Yearling Sale to the bid of George Moore Bloodstock.
She produced a colt by Medaglia D’Oro (USA) last spring and is now in foal to Capitalist.