Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators
Livy Jay, sold for $25,000 at the 2018 APG Perth yearling sale, broke through for her first metropolitan-class success when trainer Dylan Egerton-Green drove her to an all-the-way victory in the Bill Horn GPHR Life Member Pace for mares at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
Livy Jay, a $4.80 chance, defied a mid-race challenge from Paroquet and went on to defeat $6 chance Miss Lamarr, who trailed the pacemaker throughout. Paroquet faded to seventh, and the $2.70 favourite In The Spotlight finished last in the field of nine.
In The Spotlight started from the outside barrier and raced at the rear before starting a three-wide move at the bell. But she ruined her chances by hanging in during the final circuit.
Livy Jay is by American sire Sportswriter and she is bred to be a good winner, with her dam Flylika Bird Lombo (by Jet Laag) earning $53,975 from seven wins and eight placings from 35 starts.
Livy Jay, who now has earned $71,739 from eight wins and 19 placings from 48 starts, is a half-sister to Lady De La Renta, who boasts a splendid record of 75 starts for 28 wins, 20 placings and $412,619 in prizemoney. Lady De La Renta’s 14 wins from 41 starts in Western Australia includes her victory in the group 2 Diamond Classic for three-year-old fillies in May 2018. She now has won another 14 times in America.
Flylika Bird Lombo is a half-sister to ten winners, including Lombo Skyrider, who raced 321 times for 63 wins, 84 placings and stakes of $841,611.