Dual Karaka Connection for Group Three Winner

Imposing Lass (NZ) (Makfi), who won the A$150,000 Group 3 Gosford RSL Belle of the Turf Stakes (1600m) at Gosford on Friday, boasts a dual Karaka connection – she is a graduate of the 2014 Premier Sale, and her half-brother will go through the ring at Karaka 2017.

Representing her expat Kiwi connections, trainer Bjorn Baker and jockey Jason Collett, the four-year-old mare overcame a wide draw to be prominent throughout the fillies and mares’ event. Her class shone through in the straight as she kicked clear to score by a comfortable length.

“She hadn’t been cleanly away her last two starts but she got out of the gates today,” Collett said. “It was brilliant.”

Imposing Lass has now won five of her 10 starts, placing in another three and earning more than A$290,000 in prize-money. The Belle of the Turf Stakes was her second stakes win, having won the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet last season. She also placed in the Group 2 Doomben Roses.

Bred by City Bloodstock Ltd, Imposing Lass is one of three stakes-winning progeny of the Zabeel mare Imposingly. Full Of Spirit (Flying Spur) won the Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes and placed in the Group 1 Makfi Challenge Stakes, while Lady Cumquat (Duke Of Marmalade) won the Group 3 Manawatu Classic and placed in another two Group 3 events.

Imposing Lass was offered by Westbury Stud at the 2014 Premier Sale, where she sold to Paul Willetts for $120,000.

Westbury Stud will also offer her half-brother, by the dual Derby-winning freshman sire Camelot, as Lot 207 at the 2017 Premier Sale later this month.