Monday, 16 April 2018: Impressive filly Unforgotten became the 34th global Group One winner by champion sire Fastnet Rock when she went to the top her classic class in the ATC Australian Oaks at Randwick on Saturday.

Unforgotten wins the Oaks

Unforgotten (Fastnet Rock x Memories Of You by Galileo) also became the fourth consecutive graduate of the New Zealand’s Karaka sales to win Sydney’s prestigious fillies’ classic.
The sequence began with Gust of Wind (Darci Brahma), a $90,000 Karaka Premier Sale purchase who beat none other than superstar Winx (Street Cry) to win the Oaks in 2015.
The $65,000 Karaka Select Sale buy Sofia Rosa (Makfi) followed in 2016 before Bonneval (Makfi) won last year. Bought for $150,000 at the 2015 Karaka Premier Sale, Bonneval was crowned New Zealand’s Horse of the Year for 2016-17.
Champion trainer Chris Waller secured Unforgotten for $360,000 at the 2016 Karaka Premier Sale and has now won five of her nine starts and $1.095 million prizemoney.
In her final Oaks lead-up she ran second to Hiyaam (High Chaparral) in the G1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill on March 31 before reversing that result over the classic distance of 2400m in the Oaks.
Unforgotten, bred by Roncon and offered by Curraghmore at the 2016 Premier Sale, is Waller’s second Australian Oaks winner after he won the classic with Royal Descent in 2013.
Unforgotten is one of three winners out of the Irish-bred Galileo mare Memories Of You, a half-sister to G1 winner Matiara (Bering), G2 winners Pyrus (Mr Prospector) and Marathon (Diesis) and Listed winner Precious Ring (Bering).
Memories Of You is also the dam of the Listed-placed Special Memories. She has a weanling colt by No Nay Never and was covered ion 2017 by Air Force Blue.
Unforgotten’s second dam is the Listed winner Most Precious (Nureyev).

Alizee

* Sepoy’s star filly Alizee found an electrifying turn of foot to record her second Group One win in the Coolmore Legacy Queen Of The Turf at Randwick on Saturday.
Alizee , the only 3YO filly in the big field, stormed down the outside to outclass her older rivals Prompt Response (Beneteau) and Heavens Above (Street Cry) for her second G1 win over the Randwick mile having claimed the Flight Stakes over the same course in the spring.
The homebred Alizee, the winner of five of her 14 starts and $1.41 million, is a member of one of Godolphin’s most valuable Australian families.
Her dam Essaouira (Exceed And Excel) is also the dam of G1 winner Astern, the son of Medgalia D‘Oro who is now at stud.
Essaouira is out of the G2 winner Alizes (Rory’s Jester) while her third dam La Baraka (Euclase) won six races including the G1 AJC Galaxy.
La Baraka is one of seven winners out of the five-time G1 winner Triscay (Marscay), dam of the G2 winner Tsuimai (Thunder Gulch) and stakes placegetter Robrick (Grand Lodge).