Swettenham Stud

Young Swettenham Stud stallion Court of Jewels is arguably one of the most in-form sires in the country, with several promising youngsters flying the flag in recent weeks.

The regally bred son of Danehill from the famed Eight Carat family is achieving some great results for the breeders who have backed him in recent seasons, and the run looks set to continue as more of his progeny hit the track. From limited numbers to date (he’s got around 180 foals on the ground from five breeding seasons), Court of Jewels is quickly starting to rack up the winners.

From 35 runners, he’s already had 17 winners of 22 races, as well as seven placegetters.

He is now on a real roll, with eight individual winners for the season including seven since September 19.

From five runners last weekend, the stallion had two winners and two seconds — and the figures would have three and one had his four-year-old son Law And Order not lost his Sale Class 1 win on protest last Sunday.

The promising type led all the way to win his maiden at start number two on September 28, then did the same again on Sale Cup day. But after brushing the running rail he made contact with the runner-up — enough for the stewards to reverse the result.

That aside, Court of Jewels had four-year-old daughter Diamond Verdict score her maiden win at her second start at Swan Hill last Saturday, and only minutes earlier his three-year-old filly She Swings finished strongly over 1250m at Morphettville to record her second win from three outings for local trainer Richard Jolly.

Last Friday saw Benalla-trained three-year-old filly Alezzie finish second in Class 1 company behind the city-performed Airways at her home track, at her first start since she defeated a promising filly by the name of Testascana (Hamilton winner on Tuesday) in a maiden at Wangaratta.

Stawell-prepared four-year-old Bad Angel became the fourth multiple winner for her sire with victory at Horsham on October 18, winning easily over 1800m by 3¼ lengths. Two weeks earlier she had won her maiden over 1400m at Hamilton.

On October 16, Cranbourne mare Court Ya stayed on best of all to secure an overdue and deserved maiden win over 2044m at Mornington, holding a 4¾-length margin over runner-up Louboutin, who came out and franked the form by winning at Pakenham on Monday.

And two days prior, promising WA three-year-old Speech Room, who was bought as a yearling by Swettenham’s Adam Sangster and is raced by his wife, Sophie, broke his duck with a narrow win at Northam, having performed well in stronger city company at his first three outings.

Other Court of Jewels progeny to perform well include the dual winners Ned’s Court, You Little Pearler and One More Carat, while dual city-placed fi lly Regally Red was one of her sire’s fi rst winners, scoring at Ballarat over 1600m as a juvenile.

Raced by a pertnership including Swettenham Stud and his breeder, Sir Patrick Hogan, Court of Jewels managed four wins during his racing career including the listed Vanellus Stakes (1450m) in Adelaide, and he was placed in the BTC Sprint-G3 (1350m) in Brisbane.

By Danehill from the Eight Carat mare Nine Carat, Court of Jewels has a pedigree that speaks for itself.

He is standing at Swettenham in Victoria for $4400 in 2009.