With the G1 MRC Thousand Guineas to be run this Saturday at Caulfield, it only seems fitting that Chains of Love would break her maiden on Monday as her dam and grandam both won the iconic race for fillies.
Trained by Paul Messara and Leah Gavranich, the three-year-old I Am Invincible filly Chains of Love has a bit to live up to and opened her account at her second start at Scone.
Second on debut over 1100m last month at the same venue, Chains of Love was backed as though unbeatable and proved to be exactly that.
She sped away for Andrew Adkins over the concluding stages to take the 1200m maiden by nearly three lengths in a dominant display.
Retained to race by her breeders, John Messara, John Leaver and Alan Jones, Chains of Love is a full sister to stakes-winner Waltz on By and half-sister to G2-placed Duvana, being the fifth winner from five foals to race from G1 MRC Thousand Guineas winner Stay With Me.
Stay With Me was bred by the same partnership at Arrowfield, and she is the best of seven winners from Champion 2YO and 3YO Filly Miss Finland, whose G1 wins came in the Golden Slipper, Australian Guineas, Thousand Guineas, VRC Oaks and Arrowfield Stud Stakes.
Miss Finland was retired from stud service last year, but the family is a work in progress, with a good selection of her descendants being bred to the best sires.
The first two daughters of Stay With Me are also now at stud with Always on My Mind (Deep Impact), producing a yearling filly by Pinatubo and a colt foal this spring by Maurice, while Waltz on By was sent to the UK to visit Frankel last year in her first season at stud.
The talented daughter of I Am Invincible produced a very valuable filly from that mating on August 20.
