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Details
Sire: Bel Esprit
Dam: Nouchka (GB)
Colour: Bay
Gender: Filly
Age: 2 years old
Foaled: 20 Nov 2008
Owners
John Celano, Lou Djopa, Alicia Macpherson, Barry Pearce, Josip Vrapcenjak
Message from trainer
By BEL ESPRIT by Royal Academy (Bay 1999-Stud 2003): 8 wins, 5 at 2, BTC Doomben Ten Thousand S., G1; sire of 251 runners, 148 winners including Black Caviar, Gabbidon, Mooring, Vivacious Spirit, Strike The Tiger, Beltrois, Silver Bullion, Tollesprit, The Pupster, Peach Tree, etc.
BEL ESPRIT was the Champion Victorian Sire in 2007/08 & 2008/09 with only 3 crops of racing age. Currently leading Victorian Sires’ Premiership and is the Top 15 Australian active sire 2009/10. His Group 1 winning daughter, Bel Mer, sold for $1,050,000 at the 2010 Easter Broodmare Sale.
Ex. NOUCHKA (GB) by Spectum (IRE): Unraced. Second foal. Well bred. Dam is NANOUCHE, half-sister to DESERT LILY (dam of LAFLEUR-2 G2 wins) and REEM ALBARAARI (dam of MORSHDI-G1 winner). Grand-dam is HABIBTI, 9 wins-3 at 2. Winner of 2 G1’s including FR Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp & GB King Stand Stakes, 3 G2’s and 1 G3. HABIBTI’s family has produced Octagonal, Diamond Lover, Kaapstad, Marquise and Mouawad.
