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posted on 1 March, 2020

Sire of Staphanos -Deep Impact is dominant!

The late Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) sired 150 and 151 individual stakes winners over the weekend.

Best Actor (Deep Impact ex Best Location by Kurofune) made it three wins in a row as he took out the Hankyu Hai (G3, 1400m) at Hanshin yesterday. The six-year-old, who was making his stakes race debut, won by half a length. Fiano Romano (Fastnet Rock) placed second and Diatonic (Lord Kanloa) placed third. Best Actor has now won six of his 12 starts. Novara Park's Staphanos shares the same sire and broodmare sire as Best Actor being by Deep Impact out of a mare by World Champion Miler Kurofune.

L'Excellence (Deep Impact ex Xcellence by Champ Elysees) made it 3 wins from 3 starts when taking out the Listed Sumire Stakes (2200m) at Hanshin yesterday. Second placing went to Aristoteles (Epiphaneia) and third placing to Ekaterinburg (Black Tide).

Danon Kingly (Deep Impact) registered his third stakes success when bagging yesterday’s Nakayama Kinen (Gr 2, 1800m). The four-yearold beat Lucky Lilac (Orfevre) by a length and three quarters, with Soul Stirring (Frankel) another neck away in third. Danon Kingly has now won five of his eight starts, failing to make the frame on just one occasion, when he contested the Kyoto MIle Championship (Gr 1, 1600m) on his previous outing.

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St James Timeform

Says of King of Comedy :

His performance was so blatantly eye-catching that Timeform labelled King of Comedy the best rated 3yo in Europe. The sectional breakdown of the race showed that King Of Comedy finished fastest of all. He also covered at least 3 metres more than Circus Maximus and Too Darn Hot.

RaceNet - www.racenet.com.au/profiles/horse/press-statement

Says of Press Statement :

Given that it has won at Group One level and has amassed $1,832,275 in career earnings, Press Statement is regarded as an elite class of racehorse.

Kerrin Mcevoy - Jockey

Says of Sweynesse :

"He’s been pleasing us at home but we were worried about the ground and also he was meeting a good field first-up, I had to ride him a bit steady from the gate but he was electric when I asked him to go."
"He’s a nice, big colt with a lovely relaxed attitude and a very good turn of foot."

Henry Plumptre - Managing Director of Darley Australia.

Says of Sweynesse :

"These three colts are the best colts this year and there is probably a half-length
between them. It is fantastic."

Hideaki Fujiwara - Champion Trainer Japan

Says of Staphanos :

“Staphanos had outstanding ability showing speed and stamina. He was mentally and physically tough. I expect his progeny to be the same!”

Michael Cox - Former South China Morning Post and now The Age racing writer saw Staphanos in the flesh on the track and in his impressive morning workouts

Says of Staphanos :

"Staphanos is a horse of substance, mixing toughness and a no-nonsense temperament in a career in which he raced and beat some of the best Japan had to offer. What a coup by Luigi Muollo and Novara Park to secure this stallion and what an incredible opportunity for New Zealand breeders to send mares to such a highly credentialed son of Deep Impact. He has the looks, pedigree and racetrack performances to be a hit at stud. He could be a real game changer and just the type of stallion New Zealand needs."