Sunday Silence Line Winners Flow
Breednet - Brian Russell Media - 8 July 2008
PUNCH UP, a winner over 1400m at Eagle Farm on Saturday, is the second to score in Brisbane in recent weeks by unraced Australian bred sons of one of the sire giants in world breeding, the now deceased Japan used Kentucky Derby winner and American Horse of the Year Sunday Silence.
Punch Up is a 3-year-old from the first crop of Sunday Knight, a near black 16.2 hands stallion who has been a foundation sire at Heather and David Pascoe’s Plaintree Farms Stud, Cecil Plains, Toowoomba, while the other Sunday Silence sire represented successfully in Brisbane has been the illfated Any Given Sunday. He died after only one year at stud in Victoria, but has supplied one of the best 3-year-old fillies of the past year, Riva San. She won the Queensland Oaks and Queensland Derby at the Brisbane Carnival.
Now successful in three of ten starts, Saturday’s winner Punch Up is one of two metropolitan winners in recent weeks by the lightly represented Sunday Knight. The other is Marunouchi, a winner in six starts of four races, including three in Perth.
Sunday Knight
Sunday Knight (pictured), 2008 fee $4,400, to date has had seven winners and eleven other placegetters from 19 runners.
Like Any Given Sunday, Sunday Knight is one of a small number of foals got by Sunday Silence in Japan to Southern hemisphere time by arrangement with John Messara of the Arrowfield Stud, Scone and foaled in Australia. In the last four years of his life, it saw the supersire on this program put over nine mares in 1998, eight in 1999, nine in 2000 and five in 2001. The result was 25 live Sunday Silence Australian foals out of which 13 raced, five won, seven placed and the other was a minor money earner in New Zealand.