Pins' Golden Run Continues In Singapore (February 17 2010)

Pins currently leads the Singapore Sires' Premiership and he was credited with another significant success yesterday when his red-hot son Goldschatz won the Gr 3 Fortune Bowl. The six-year-old continued his immaculate run of form with victory in feature event at Kranji.

"I'm very proud of him. It's a hard task to do what he has done - win fives races in a row, especially being a stayer," expatriate New Zealand trainer Stephen Gray said. Raced by Dubai-based owner Stephan Herzog, Goldschatz has won more than $600,000 with seven wins and 12 placings from 27 appearances.

Gray said he would now be giving serious consideration to starts in the Gr 2 Queen Elizabeth II Cup and the Gr 1 Singapore Airlines International Cup. Both events are run over 2000 metres - a distance Goldschatz has tackled four times for two wins and a placing.

He is out of the winning mare Centri Belle and is yet another successful product of the Pins-Centaine cross, that has realised 15 percent stakes-winners to runners, including WS's own Legs (Gr 1 NZ Oaks and Kelt Capital Stakes).