Fuddle flying for Inglis Premier

Red Ransom filly Fuddle Dee Duddle will cross the continent for the $250,000 Inglis Premier at Mornington on February 15 following a powerful victory in Perth on Saturday.

Fuddle Dee Duddle (2f Red Ransom – Bella Inez by Beautiful Crown) is eligible for the rich pay-day after  making $240,000 at the 2011 Inglis Melbourne Premier yearling sale.  “I decided to increase her workload after her disappointing run a fortnight ago,” trainer Lindsey Smith said.  “She still does a few things wrong so it was a good win.”

Smith claimed his filly is also looking for more ground and, in time, will progress to a mile.  Her win in the Advanced Hot Water & Air Plate at Ascot was over 1100 metres and the Mornington feature is an extra 100 metres.

Fuddle Dee Duddle is from Red Ransom’s penultimate crop and is a younger half-sister to Group 1 filly Hallowell Belle (Starcraft).

She is owned by Eddie Rigg (Geisel Park) and Ron Sayers (Yarradale Stud).  They also race Bliss Street (Flying Spur) who won the G3 MRC Thousand Guineas Prelude in September.  Her autumn campaign will kick-off in the G2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) at Warwick Farm on February 18.

Smith returned from the Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sale earlier this month with a Soldier’s Tale filly catalogued by Yarradale Stud.  She was presented by Hunter Valley based Amarina Farm as agent for Yarradale and made $80,000.

Amarina studmaster Craig Anderson was confident the filly from Broadway Hit filly (Lot 498) would make good money in the lead-up to the sale.  “She was constantly out of the box,” Anderson said from his Barn X base at the Gold Coast complex.  “She’s a big, strong filly for a first foal.”

The Soldier’s Tale – Broadway Hit filly comes from a family that Smith would have seen at close quarters in Perth.  The dam won at Ascot and is a sister to last year’s G1 WA Derby winner Dreamaway.

 
FUDDLE DEE DUDDLE
Ascot winner (outside) is being set for the Inglis Premier in Victoria