Successful Sunspeed owner-breeder Bob Peters has another well-bred mare rising through the ranks in Perth.  

Peters captured the Ascot 1000 Guineas (1800m) last Saturday with More Than Ready filly Dreamaway and he bobbed up again when Catbird mare Moonbound won on Wednesday.

Moonbound (4m Catbird – Moonfire by Geiger Counter) started a $1.60 favourite after a dominant first up victory at Bunbury but she had to do it the hard way in the Playeronline.com.au Hcp over 1400m.  “She will race over an increased distances from now on,” trainer Grant Williams said.  “She use to be very erratic but has settled down.”

Moonbound is from a half-sister to the Peters homebreds Old Money (G1 WATC Derby) and Old Cobber (G2 WATC C B Cox Stakes).  Her dam Moonfire won over 1600m at Belmont and she was also Listed placed in the 2004 Natasha Trophy.

The 2011 Natasha Trophy on March 12 is the next feature on the agenda for Dreamaway.  Peters would love to win it having bred and raced Natasha to victories in the 1990 WA Derby & WA Oaks when they were Group 1 races.

Dreamaway (3f More Than Ready – Legal Consent by Danehill) will use the Natasha Trophy as a final lead-up to the G3 WA Oaks (2400m) on March 26.  “It was a perfect lead-in to the Oaks,” Williams said on Wednesday.  “She’s a very classy filly.”

Dreamaway won the G3 WA Champion Fillies Stakes in February and was ultra-impressive in the Ascot 1000 Guineas last Saturday   She is by Vinery’s champion sire More Than Ready and her dam Legal Consent is a half-sister to Miss Margaret (Marscay) who was a G1 winner for Peters in the VRC Chrysler Stakes and South Australian Oaks.

Legal Consent’s first foal New Spice (Old Spice) was a Listed winner of the Melvista Stakes, Northerly Stakes and J C Roberts Stakes at Ascot and he also won the City of Dandenong Cup at Sandown.  The mare’s latest yearling by More Than Ready is a filly that sold for $410,000 at the 2011 Gold Coast Magic Millions.