Monday, 30 October 2017: Aloisia, hot favourite to complete a stellar spring campaign with a win in the G1 VRC Oaks at Flemington, could have been bought at Karaka for just $60,000.

Aloisia at Karaka

The NZ-bred Aloisia upstaged some highly rated fillies with an emphatic win in the G1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield and took another step when she outclassed her male rivals at Moonee Valley on Saturday in the G2 Drummond Golf Vase by three and a half lengths.
The Aaron Pucell-trained Aloisia  is now an odds on favourite for the G1 VRC Oaks (2500m) at Flemington on November 9.
The Azamour filly was bred by Matamata couple Jason and Kelly Price and the latter’s brother Michael Hall. When she was passed in for $NZ60,000 at the 2016 NZB Karaka Sale, they retained her to race themselves.
Jason Price trained her for two New Zealand starts for a fifth and a second before she was sold to an Australian syndicate headed by Terry Henderson’s OTI Racing
Purcell stepped in to take over as Aloisia’s caretaker trainer after her former trainer Ciaron Maher was suspended last month.
Aloisia (Azamour x Queen Boudicca by Perfectly Ready) has now won three times with two seconds from seven starts for $612,865 prize money.
Her late sire Azamour shuttled from Gilltown Stud in Ireland to New Zealand in 2013. Azamour, who died in April, has left 37 stakes winners including Aloisia, Irish Oaks winner Covert Love, Dubai Sheema Classic winner Dolniya and Prix de Diane winner Valyra.
Aloisia is one of two winners out of the G2 placed Queen Boudicca while her second dam Qwikchik (Grosvenor) is a placed half-sister to Listed winner Canned Heat (Al Akbar) and Energetic Dancer (Dance Floor), the dam of Listed winner Savvy Dancer (Savabeel).
Queen Boudicca has a 2YO Wyetta (Keeper) racing in NZ, a yearling colt by Swiss Ace and colt foal by Dalghar.
• Godolphin filly Banish landed the G2 Fillies Classic at Moonee Valley on Saturday to become the 69th individual stakes winner by her sir Lonhro.
Banish  is likely to be spelled despite her third victory this campaign.
Banish (Lonhro x Meidung by Bernardini) has won four of her eight starts with three placings.
She is the first foal out of the Listed winner Meidung (Bernardini) while her second dam Amish (Canny Lad) is a half sister to dual G2 winner Pinwheel.
Meidung died in 2015 after she produced an unraced two-year-old colt by Medaglia d’Oro.
• Victorian sire Reward For Effort sired his seventh stakes winner when Blondie  won the Listed William Crockett Stakes at Moonee Valley