Postponed Connection to Hong Kong Derby Hope

Monday, Jan 18, 2010

Westbury Stud stallion Postponed received a boost when the Gerry Harvey bred Super Satin emerged as a serious Hong Kong Derby chance over the weekend  with a super win at Sha Tin on Saturday.

Super Satin is out of the Rock City mare Mantle's Princess who is a half sister to the 1998 Derby winner Johan Cryuff and The Oaks young stallion, Spartacus.
This season the Harvey owned Mantle's Princess visited Postponed who Harvey also shares in the ownership alongside David Benjamin and Gary Hackett.

The win was Super Satin's fourth in as many starts and he is now rated on 91 having commenced the season rated 64. The Danehill Dancer four-year-old has improved both mentally and physically since joining the Caspar Fownes barn according to winning jockey Douglas Whyte. "Mentally, he's a racehorse now and knows he's a racehorse. He saves his reserves of energy for his races and Caspar's done a great job with building him up and putting some condition on him. He is a
proper horse when you sit on him now. He's come a long way." Whyte told Alan Aitken of the South China Morning Post. "There's still a way to go, of course, and we'll know more after Super Satin runs in the Derby Trial next start because that is shaping like a dress rehearsal for the Derby but I'm thrilled with the way he's progressing." Super Satin was sold for $340,000 to the late Ivan Allan at the 2007 Magic Million Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the draft of Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud.

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