$600,000 Mistletoe Shalee won by Pacific

Press, 4 August 1987, Page 49

$600,000 Mistletoe Shalee won by Pacific

By

JEFF SCOTT

Time Well Spent, the half-sister to the Nevele R. Stud importation Talk About Class, was a fastfinishing second to Pacific, a filly with New Zealand connections, in the $600,000 Mistletoe Shalee at the Meadowlands on Saturday. The three-year-old fillies cut out the mile in 1:53.8.

After drawing barrier eight, Time Well Spent dropped back to eighth over the opening quarter in 28s, was eleventh of the 12 runners through the opening half-mile in 55.8 s and was still back in eighth place, seven and three-quarter lengths from the leaders at the top of the stretch. She made up five lengths on the free-legged Pacific, a daughter of the Little Brown Jug winner Seahawk Hanover (by Bret Hanover) in the run

home, to be beaten by two and a half lengths. Pacific led after the opening quarter from barrier four.

Pacific is from the Able Bye Bye mare, Princess Nandina, which was purchased by the National Bloodstock Corporation and brought back from North America. Cardigan Bay Breeding, Limited and Company sold a colt foal by French Chef (the sire of Meadowlands Pace winner Frugal Gourmet) from Princess Nandina for $BO,OOO to the R. and M. Syndicate of Auckland at the inaugural National Bloodstock International Yearling Sale in March.

Princess Nandina, a sister to Captain Smooth (1:59.1, 13 wins), Free Port Boy (TT, 1:57.6), Porthcawl (2:00.9), Captain Portentious and Precious Nandina, the dam of 1986 North Island Breeders’ Stakes winner

Precious Dina, was sold by the Nandina Stud to Mr Keith Miller, the partowner and trainer of subsequent Rowe Cup winner Mairo Sultan, for just $4OO in the mid-19705. Later sold to North America, she won in 1:59.8 there. Portmadoc, the granddam of Pacific, was purchased by Nevele R. studmaster, Mr Dick Osborne with Precious Nandina at foot, from the Nandina Stud when he was working there in 1975. Now 18 years old, Portmadoc, was sold to Mr Bob McArdle by Mr Osborne in a deal on Sunday evening, after the success of the mare’s granddaughter over the weekend.

Mr Osborne still retains a four-year-old mare by Nat Lobell, an El Patron yearling filly from Portmadoc.

Pacific, which earlier

won the $221,200 American National Fillies’ Pace for three-year-olds and also the corresponding race for two-year-olds, paced a career best of 1:53 when she won a heat of the Mistletoe Shalee.