Fomalite’s interesting pedigree

One of the more interesting winners over the last week was the 2YO filly Fomalite at Bendigo on Sunday.

Fomalite is the first winner by the Victorian first-season sire Fomalhaut, an exquisitely bred son of Spinning World (by Nureyev (USA)). The filly is trained at Bendigo by Shane Fliedner.

Fomalite is the sixth foal, and the fifth winner, from the River Rough (by Brigand (USA)) mare White Water Bay, a metro-placed mare who won four from 25. White Water Bay is yet another good producing mare with a double cross of the great Star Kingdom through Brigand (by Noholme) and her dam Bayakoa (by Zephyr Bay’s Newmarket Handicap winner Elounda Bay), and it is of no surprise the mare nicks well with Fomalhaut, who is not only a Northern Dancer-line stallion, but also his granddam Raise The Standard (by Hoist The Flag (USA)) is a half-sister to Northern Dancer.

Fomalhaut is a three-parts brother to champion sire Machiavellian (by Mr. Prospector (USA)), and of course, he is closely related to the great Danehill (by Danzig (USA)). To add further to the in-breeding mix, Fomalhaut’s damsire is Halo (by Hail To Reason (USA)), whose dam Cosmah