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Sun, 12 April 2026
Enchantment winning the Listed Property Brokers Welcome Stakes (1000m). Photo: Race Images South
Exciting filly Enchantment picked up her first black-type win on Saturday when taking out the Listed Property Brokers Welcome Stakes (1000m).
Enchantment was the best away in the eight-horse field and made a beeline to the front. She set a solid tempo under jockey Michael McNab and was never headed, seeing off the late challenge of her fast-finishing stablemate to win by three-quarters of a length.
“She was building to this, she has done well every time she has stepped out to the races,” McNab said.
“I thought her best run was the other day when she was a bit covered up and she chased, but I jumped so well and a couple of the others didn’t, so I took up the lead. She was a little bit green but once she straightened up she picked up well and held them off well.”
Bergerson was pleased to secure black-type for his filly and said the Welcome Stakes has been her main aim for some time.
“Once we couldn’t get her to the Karaka Millions, we worked back from this and we are really stoked to get a black-type win on her CV,” he said.
“It was a good, positive ride by Michael, he summed it up well. She still does a little bit wrong and wanted to lug out a lot in that race.
“She is a sharp filly, she is not overly big, but she is tough and she is coping with it really well.”
Enchantment will bid to add to her stakes tally in next month’s Listed Berkley Stud Champgne Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton.
Bred by Emblem Ltd, Enchantment is by Hello Youmzain and out of dual Group Three winner Belle Fascino.
She was offered through Haunui Farm’s 2025 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft where she was purchased by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock for $60,000.
She has now won one and placed in three of her four starts to date and has earned just shy of her purchase price. -Joshua Smith, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk
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