August 20, 2003 Danehill's Hillman Bred to Climb Higher Hillman, the very smart winner over 1100 metres at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday trained by Jack Denham for its breeders, Geoff and Beryl White of Scone, is bred in the purple. A good prospect for stakes money this season, Hillman is a four-year-old colt by Danehill and from the White's magnificent home bred Australian racing star Triscay and in consequence appears valuable sire material. Also in the Denham hands, Triscay was a wonderful filly for the Whites, following up the champion juvenile honours for 1989-90 by lauding it over the colts and being weighted at the head of the Australasian Classifications of the best three-year-olds the following year. All but one of Triscay's 26 race starts were at two and three years and included 15 wins, seven of which were at two. In her debut year she won her first four outings including the Silver Slipper by 4.75 lengths and later in the year took out the Reisling Slipper Trial and Champagne Stakes and finished third in the Blue Diamond Stakes and sixth in the Golden Slipper. Triscay's eight wins at three included appearances in the AJC Oaks (race record time) and QTC Oaks, the VRC Australian Guineas (by 3.5 lengths) and Flight Stakes. She was second in the VATC 1000 Guineas, VRC Oaks and Wakeful Stakes. Prior to the emergence of the lightly raced Hillman, Triscay had created an impression as a broodmare by supplying La Baraka, the Euclase filly which won six sprint races including the Group 1 Galaxy at Randwick. Triscay is a representative of the Star Kingdom male line, being by Marscay, the Biscay colt with which Jack Denham won the 1982 Golden Slipper for the Whites and which later became a champion sire for them at Widden. She is, however, the only winner of class among the three winners in the ten foals from the Sir Tristram mare Tristram Lady, a winner of one minor race in Adelaide. However, her unraced daughter is the grandam of dual Group 1 winner Defier and another daughter produced AJC Summer Cup winner Majestically. Brian Russell Bloodstock Media Service

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