Both Alan and I have recently posted that we felt that the young Taylor Made stallion Officer represented great value in 2009 as a “rebound stallion” after he had served his best books of mares, as far as quality was concerned, the last two seasons a stud.

No sonner had Alan made his post than his son Officer Rocket proved too good in the Holiday Cheer Stakes (L) at Turfway Park. Officer Rocket, a grade three winner at two who is now winning stakes races as a rising five-year-old, is out of a mare by the leading sire Gone West and Officer has shown particular liking for Gone West line mares. Indeed Officer Rocket aside he has the graded placed European two-year-old Art Princess out of a mare by Gone West’s son Mr Greeley, the talented Les Grands Trois out of a Gone West mare and Hawahiana, a grade two placed filly in Mexico out of a Mr Greeley mare. Interestingly, as a In Reality line stallion this Officer/Gone West nick found in Officer Rocket is the reverse of the Gone West/In Reality nick that has been seen to great effect in Classic winners Smarty Jones and Commendable.

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