A golden glow about Platinum Scissors filly
Racing & Breeding News - Brian Russell - Bloodstock Media Service - 20 May 2008
PLATINUM SCISSORS, a Danehill multiple Group1 money earner on the sire strength at Heather Pascoe’s young quality Toowoomba district located Plaintree Farms, has several weanlings in the catalogue covering next week’s Magic Millions National sale at the Gold Coast that could see him emulate his exalted 3-years-older brother Redoute’s Choice and become a source of Golden Slipper candidates.
One of the weanlings in particular with the maternal ingredients that suggests she could be a very smart, precocious youngster is a brown filly foaled August 31 being offered as Lot 131 by Plaintree Farms. It is a three-quarter sister to Golden Whistler (Catbird Eagle Farm and Doomben winner) and to Kalmia (a Commands winner at two) and a half-sister to three other winners, including Bareena (six wins, successful Brisbane and the Gold Coast; second at Eagle Farm in the Tattersall’s Classic) and Makeni (also six wins).
Represented by six to race, the dam Marilla is a half-sister to six winners got by Palace Music from Spicette, a three-quarter sister by Baguette to Dark Eclipse. Both Baguette and Dark Eclipse won the Golden Slipper.
There are six lots by Platinum Scissors in the catalogue with two others consigned by Plaintree Farms being a filly from a Snippets mare and another from Helen, a Quest for Fame winner at 1200m and a half-sister to Walnut, a winner of eight races at sprint distances, one a Listed stakes in Adelaide and five others in Melbourne.
Supreme Bloodstock are to offer a Platinum Scissors filly from Smooth Habit, a half-sister to New Zealand Group 3 winner Branson and a daughter of a half-sister to a hero of Australian racing, Rough Habit. He won 29 races, including nine Group 1 events.
The Platinum Scissors offspring are current 2-year-olds, but only seven have been named so far and the only runner has appeared but once. It will be surprising if a horse of his breeding and ability doesn’t get some good winners.
Not only is he by one of the greatest modern sires, Danehill, and a brother to Redoute’s Choice, but he is a three-quarter brother to the very popular Emirates Park sire Al Maher and closely related to Hurricane Sky, Umatilla and Spinning World.
Platinum Scissors’ performances on the racetrack included five wins, four of them including the AJC Spring Champion Stakes, Group events. Seven seconds included the Doomben Cup and five Group 2s and three Group1 fourths were in the AJC George Main Stakes, STC George Ryder Stakes and STC Caulfield Stakes.
Available for the 2008 season at a fee of $11,000, Platinum Scissors is one of two sons of Danehill standing at Plaintree Farms. The other is Conatus, a lightly raced winner of four sprints, one at 1000m at Warwick Farm and another over 1100m at Randwick. On a fee of only $3,300, he is one of the very few sire descendants of the wonderful matriarch Denise’s Joy available at stud.
Plaintree Farms also stands Sunday Knight (fee $4,400), an Australian bred son of the giant of Japanese breeding, Sunday Silence, and the Bletchingly Group 1 winning sprinter Wrap Around.