Excitement Builds Around Fast 'N' Famous (January 19 2010)

The first crop of Fast 'N' Famous have been received with widespread acclaim and excitement is mounting at WS as his yearlings prepare to make their Karaka debuts at the forthcoming New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales. The Matamata farm have been delighted by the response and the positive feedback.

"We've hosted over 100 people who have been inspecting yearlings over the last five weeks and they have all been suitably impressed," Mark Chittick said. "The comments both on our Fast 'N' Famous yearlings and those of other breeders has been terrific.

"They are medium-sized, strong yearlings and what has really satisfied us is that they all look like runners - that's what he was and it sums up his whole family. It's always exciting when a stallion's first crop hits the ring and with a strong domestic and international buying bench at Karaka it's all looking particularly positive."

Sizzling pace and raw power were the hallmark of Fast 'N' Famous' racing career that featured six consecutive victories, including the Gr 3 Gilgai Stakes at Flemington. He stopped the clock at 1.08.34 in his defeat of Gr 1 winners Dance Hero and Shadoways and in his Listed Starlight Stakes success rattled off a closing 600 metres in 33.67.

His explosive turn of foot required firm tracks and a measure of his class was a narrow defeat on rain-affected going by the internationally-performed sprinter Magnus in the Gr 1 Galaxy Handicap. Fast 'N' Famous then finished a game fourth, again on an off track, in the Gr 1 All-Aged Stakes and filled a similar placing in the Gr 1 BTC Cup before his retirement to WS in 2007 and a top-quality book of 129 mares in his first season.

A $660,000 yearling, Fast 'N' Famous carries a mix of the best Australasian bloodlines available being a son of the Danehill sire sensation Redoute's Choice out of Zalinda, a stakes-winning daughter of the champion stallion Zabeel. Her dam was the brilliant Gr 1 Railway Handicap winner Alynda while champion New Zealand sire Sovereign Edition also features in the pedigree.

WS will offer four colts and two fillies by Fast 'N' Famous in their Premier Sale draft and a further two sons and a daughter in the Select Sale.

PREMIER SESSION

Lot 23: Chestnut filly out of the stakes-performed mare Look At Moiye. She is a stakes placeddaughter of O'Reilly and the Gr 1 NZ 2000 Guineas winner Facing The Music.
Lot 34: Bay colt out of the Manawatu Breeders' Stakes winner Madison Gray. Gr 1 Easter Handicap winner Honor Bound also features in the pedigree.
Lot 71: Bay colt is a half-brother to three winners, including Plaudits (Listed Eagle Farm Stakes) from the Centaine mare Night Star - a sister to dual Gr 3 winner and Gr 1 placegetter Starcent.
Lot 97: Bay colt out of the multiple winner and stakes-performed Pins mare Pin High who is a half-sister to Gr 2 Waikato Gold Cup winner Ultimate Aim.
Lot 246: Bay filly out of the O'Reilly mare You Too who hails from a prolific WS family that features dual Gr 1 winners Glamour Puss and Vision And Power.
Lot 448: Bay colt from Huka Falls (O'Reilly) who is a sister to the dam of champion filly and triple Gr 1 winner Daffodil - NZ 1000 Guineas, Australasian Oaks, Windsor Park Plate.


SELECT SESSION

Lot 515: Bay colt whose dam Lucerne (O'Reilly) was a four-time winner and is a half-sister to the stakes-performed Smartway (Pins).
Lot 718: Bay colt out of a winning American-bred winner from the family of multiple Gr 1 winner and leading sire Flying Spur.
Lot 1001: Grey filly who is half-sister to multiple winner Forepins with Gr 1 NZ Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes winner Special Mission a notable family member.