Kschessinska (NZ) has claimed New Zealand’s first juvenile event of the season for deceased Windsor Park champion Volksraad.

The Byerley Park filly won the 94.4 The Sound Stakes (800m) at Wanganui by a half-head for trainer Leo Molloy and jockey Rosie Myers on Saturday.  “I had watched videos of her trials and Leo thought she would go alright,” Myer said.  “It was a gutsy win and she’s got the right attitude to go on with it.”

Kschessinska (2f Volksraad – Imco Main by Danehill) was a $20,000 buy from the NZB Select yearling sale when offered by Mapperley Stud.  She is a younger half-sister to Changing Eyes (Black Minnaloushe) who was a Listed winner of the 2008 Matrice Stakes at Morphettville for trainer Richard Jolly.

New Zealand’s new-season two year-olds includes the penultimate crop of Volksraad who died aged 23 in December 2011.  He began stud duties at Mapperley Stud in Matamata before transferring to Windsor Park in 1999.

Volksraad (GB) fashioned an outstanding career as one of New Zealand’s greatest stallions of the modern era.  He made a sensational start with his first crop siring 9 stakes winners including G1 VATC Oakleigh Plate winner Dantelah.

His feat of winning 8 sire premierships between 2002 and 2010 stands as a modern day record, a total only exceeded by the great Foxbridge in the 1940s.

KSCHESSINSKA
Pictured at Mapperley Stud before the 2013 NZB Karaka Sale