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Purchased for $65,000 (PLUS GST) at the recent GOLD COAST MAGIC MILLIONS SALES this cracking daughter of GENERAL NEDIYM certainly ticks all the boxes on type and pedigree to suggest that she too maybe part of the early 2yo action later this year and early into the next. I was fortunate to have purchased this filly on day one of the sale as all hell broke loose Saturday when GENERAL NEDIYM’S daughter MILITARY ROSE bolted in the 2yo Magic Millions race creating an enormous impression in the process elevating her to one of the favorites for the upcoming Golden Slipper. This is the second GENERAL NEDIYM filly to have won the Magic Millions (REGIMENTAL GAL being the first) and being an early foal (born 31st July) and with nice knitted up knees this filly gives every impression that she will hit the tracks as an early 2yo!

GENERAL NEDIYM is the grandson of an Irish Derby winner and his family includes the incomparable and ill-fated Shergar on one side and the one-time world record holder at 2400m,Horlicks on the other. But instead of running in Derbies as a 3YO,GENERAL NEDIYM was setting the track on fire in Australia’s biggest sprint races. Not that he didn’t have his share of stamina, he was after all a gallant third in the Caulfield Guineas when taken on in front the whole way. It was that the strapping son of Nediym and Without Fear mare Military Belle was one of the most natural speedsters to have raced in Australia in the past decade.

In the 1997-98 season GENERAL NEDIYM emerged as clearly the best sprinter in the country. If not for one uncharacteristic run when unplaced in the GROUP ONE Oakleigh Plate, he might have gone down as one of the best ever. From nine starts that season GENERAL NEDIYM won seven, including Flemington’s GROUP ONE double of the Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap. He also won four times at GROUP TWO level, his other victory coming in the LISTED Heritage Stakes at Rosehill.And all that on top of a two-year-season in which his only defeat in seven starts was an unlucky fourth when favourite in the Golden Slipper.

From the time he was weaned, GENERAL NEDIYM was a likely type. Bred at Ron Ashdown’s Glengarry Stud in Queensland, the colt went to the 1996 Magic Million Sale with a sizeable reserve on him. But he became cast in his box at the sale and took a small piece off a leg.X-rays showed there was no damage but the incident was enough to persuade Ashdown to remove the reserve he’d placed on the colt. As a result he went for a bargain at $20,000.The sale story didn’t end there,though.The new owner ordered a second x-ray and even though it was also clear, he was returned. GENERAL NEDIYM  was duly sent to the Brisbane stables of trainer Bill Mitchell. It had been planned to give the colt a trial but Mitchell’s foreman assessed him as something out of the box and he went straight to the races. GENERAL NEDIYM obliged by trotting up in a 2YO handicap at Eagle Farm and went on to win his next five starts, including the Magic Millions at the Gold Coast and the GROUP TWO Todman Slipper Trial at Rosehill.

GENERAL NEDIYM went for a spell after the Golden Slipper and made a slashing return to racing in the GROUP TWO San Domenico Stakes (1000m) at Randwick where he beat Sports with the classy Encounter in fourth place. He again toppled Encounter in the GROUP TWO Up And Coming Stakes (1200m) at Warwick Farm next time out and then had his revenge on Guineas in the LISTED Heritage Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill.

Mitchell next tried GENERAL NEDIYM in the GROUP TWO Stan Fox Stakes (1400m) at Randwick,a race that has proven a reliable source of top class racehorses. GENERAL NEDIYM was no exception, scoring a comfortable win despite racing keenly over the longest trip he’d attempted. The run convinced connections to tackle the GROUP ONE Caulfield Guineas (1600m).A typically hot field lined up in the Guineas and it was up to GENERAL NEDIYM to lead the way. Unfortunately for him, the others new it and it quickly emerged that there were horses in the race that were there to test The General. From soon after the start until the top of the straight he was pressed and did well to run third just half a length behind Encounter.

After that, little thought was given to anything but sprinting. GENERAL NEDIYM resumed with a runaway win in the GROUP ONE Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington and was sent out favourite at his next run in the GROUP ONE Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfiled.In the only below standard run of his life GENERAL NEDIYM finished 14th at Caulfield, a variety of reasons being offered for the defeat, not least of them an encounter with a filly behind the gates. It seemed that the colt choked down after leading easily. But the setback was soon rectified when GENERAL NEDIYM stepped out in the group one Newmarket Handicap (1200m).

Carrying the hefty impost for a 3yo of 55kg,GENERAL NEDIYM gave three kilograms and a beating to Toledo, who later won his own Newmarket along with a number of other top sprints. GENERAL NEDIYM had redeemed himself, leaving no question as to his superiority over a short course. The Newmarket win put him in the same category as such dynamic sprinters as Schillaci,Shaftesbury Avenue, Placid Ark and Special, the only horses in the previous 20 years to win Flemington’s famous sprint double. GENERAL NEDIYM retired after finishing second to Kidman’s Cove in the GROUP TWO Apollo Stakes at Warwick Farm in February 1999 with career stats of 21 starts for 13 wins and $2,128,998 in prizemoney.

The fillies dam is the Woodman mare DANWOOD and she comes from an imposing family that combines speed via LEICA WESTERN,DANSINO,LEICA JEWELL and FLYING DANSINO with strength through REDDING,NOTHI’N LEICA DANE,LEICA SMILE,MOON DRAGON and HEPTONSTALL.There are GROUP ONE victories in Derby’s and Oaks and GROUP and LISTED victories in the shorter sprints which gives the overall balance to a lovely pedigree and a filly that is earmarked to grace the track very early in her racing career!