FASHION SHOOT

Savabeel mare Fashion Shoot always had black type success due to her, and she secured her well-deserved and valuable black type win in November 2023 during NZ Cup Week.

A beautifully bred filly, Fashion Shoot won her second start in September 2020, showing a great turn of foot, and a promising future ahead.

In November 2022, during NZ Cup Week, she was third in the $100,000 Group 3 Valachi Down Canterbury Breeders' Stakes for fillies and mare - a SW+P 1200m feature. It was a brave effort by the determined mare with visiting Australian rider Joshua Parr aboard, after being forced to race three wide without cover for the majority of the race from her wide gate (15).

Starting to come of age, and now a five year old, she contested the $100,000 Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap 1200m on Boxing Day at Pukekohe Park. In the event won by stablemate Synchronize, she finished a very creditable fourth from barrier 13, having lost a shoe in the running.  She was also awkwardly away, and hampered at the 200m mark, very unlucky not to have been in the top three.

It was seemingly a case of 'Cinderella Syndrome' when she again lost a plate in the running of her next race, the $130,000 Group 3 Brighthill Farm Yearlings Concorde Handicap Open Hcp 1200m on Karaka Million night at Pukekohe. After being slow away, she posted a massive finish to claim third (margins 1.75L/long neck).

Another win was to come before the 2022/23 season concluded - and Fashion Shoot started the new 2023/24 season in exactly the same 'fashion' winning at Hawkes Bay in September 2023. Sent to Christchurch to target the elusive black type win, the mare known as 'Chanel' lined up in the $120,000 Group 3 Windsor Park Stud Canterbury Breeders' Stakes F&M SW+P 1400m - the race she had been third in the season prior - on the middle day of NZ Cup Week.

The nightmare draws continued, and jumping from barrier 13, she settled back in 16th place but astute rider Warren Kennedy had a plan - travelling wide at the 400m she showed tremendous grit and determination, pinning her ears back, taking the gap and charging late - not to be denied her victory (by a neck).

Fashion Shoot was purchased by David Ellis CNZM at the Karaka Premier Sale and is raced by the Te Akau In Vogue Syndicate (Mgr: Karyn Fenton-Ellis MNZM).  She has raced 27 times, recording six wins and 13 placings, with stakes' earnings of $259,480.