Liwa records second stakes success

Emirates Park bred and raced Liwa added another valuable stakes race victory to her record in Perth when scoring a stylish win in the  Listed WATC Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic (1400m) at Ascot.

A 3-year-old daughter of Mulaazem based in Western Australia with Simon Miller, Liwa had been an unlucky runner-up in the Listed Placid Ark Stakes at her previous outing but atoned for her narrow defeat with an impressive  performance to record her first win over 1400 metres.

Liwa took her career earnings to $346,200 following 12 career starts to date. In addition to her latest black-type success, the home-bred filly also claimed the Listed Supremacy Stakes in her juvenile season, while she is also three-times stakes-placed including second Group 2 WATC Karrakatta Plate and third Group 3  WATC WA Sires’ Produce Stakes.

Liwa is a grand-daughter of the great producing mare Schiaparelli, dam of five individual winners including the notable racehorse and sire Rothesay as well as the multiple New Zealand stakes winner Sensei (by Dream Ahead). The family traces back to Jesmond Lass, one of the most influential matriarchs in the Australian Stud Book.

In fact, Liwa is bred 4S X 4D X 5D to Jesmond Lass as her sire Mulaazem is himself a maternal great-grandson of the celebrated broodmare, while Canny Lad (ex Jesmond Lass) also features in the pedigree of Redoute’s Choice, Liwa’s damsire.

Liwa became the third individual stakes winning filly bred and raced by Emirates Park in the space of a week following the black-type double of Ebhaar and Enthaar on the previous Saturday's program staged at Caulfield in Melbourne.

Immediately following Liwa impressive Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic victory, Liwa was send for a spell in preparation for her 2022 racing year.