LADY XAAR ALL THE WAY

LADY XAAR hits the line strongly with Daniel Staeck on board.

Lightly raced 3yo filly LADY XAAR made an impressive and successful return to the race track today in what I hope to be the first of many wins for her. The filly was racing first up after a spell and finally had some luck with the barrier draw after drawing bad barriers all of her last preparation. Daniel Staeck who rode the filly quickly had her in front controlling the tempo and she was able to hold on for a good win.

The filly was withdrawn from the 2008 yearling sales by her owner/breeder Peter Walsh when problems were revealed on the pre sale x-rays. The filly was found to have ring bone in both front pasterns and we didn't expect her to have any sort of race future. I broke the filly in at the farm later that year and we figured we may as well see how long she stands up and if she has any ability.

True to the norm with horses with ring bone disease, the filly continued to go sore even though she showed heaps of ability. After her last preparation Peter was happy to move her on however we talked it over and decided to give her one more preparation with most of the work done at Amelia Park. The training facilities there are superb and I was confident that if we could get her fit without a lot of galloping, we may be able to get her to stand up to a full preparation.

This is exactly what we did and with the benefit of plenty of swimming and walking as well as working on a softer surface, the filly has made it to the races on very little galloping. Providing we can keep her sound I believe she has the ability to win a lot better races than she won today.