Eduardo Cojuangco's breeding and racing powerhouse Gooree Pastoral, Mudgee, NSW could be rewarded with Golden Slipper glory next month by a home bred filly whose breeding suggests there is good value to be gained by doubling up closely broodmares who are consistently sources of goodness.

The most recent advertisement for this pattern of breeding is Shared Reflections, an impressive winner in race record time of the $125,000 Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

Raced by Cojuangco and Gooree manager Andrew Baddock, trained by Gai Waterhouse and now winner twice in Sydney in three outings, Shared Reflections is bred on a cross of two very fast Group 1 Australian gallopers who are half-brothers.

She is by Umatilla (grandson of Mr. Prospector; seven wins, including WATC Karrakatta Plate, placed in the Blue Diamond, VRC Newmarket, Lightning Stakes) and from Ulap, a Moonee Valley 2-year-old winner by Hurricane Sky (by the Bletchingly Slipper winner Star Watch; won the Blue Diamond in equal course record time, also won the AJC All-Aged Stakes; second VRC Australian Guineas).

Although they are half-brothers, Umatilla (got in America, foaled in New Zealand) and Hurricane Sky (got in the Hunter Valley for a Victorian breeder) resulted from matings in different hemispheres.

Their dam Dancing Show, a minor American winner bred on the awesome cross of Nijinsky over a Sir Ivor mare (Show Lady), was carrying the foal that was to become Umatilla when she arrived in New Zealand at five in1988.

Deceased in early October 1999, Dancing Show went on to produce eleven foals from use in Australia (principally) and New Zealand for eight runners and seven winners. Only two, Umatilla and Hurricane Sky, won stakes, but, more importantly, she left a daughter, Shantha’s Choice, who is certain to be prominent in Australian pedigrees for much of this century.

A three-quarter sister by Canny Lad to Hurricane Sky, Shantha’s Choice raced only twice, both as a late 2-year-old, but suggested she had a lot of ability by winning by 1.8 lengths at Seymour on debut and then finishing a short half head second at Sandown.

In the ownership of Sri Lankan businessman Muzaffar Yaseem, Shantha’s Choice has proved one of the best broodmares of recent years.

She has produced thirteen foals, including three Group 1 winners, the Danehill brothers Redoute’s Choice (champion Australian sire) and Platinum Scissors and the Encosta de Lago colt Manhattan Rain.

Standing alongside Redoute’s Choice, Manhattan Rain looked after 105 mares in his debut season last year.

Also out of Dancing Show is the Don’t Say Halo Sydney winner Show Dancing, dam of two stakes winners, including Al Maher, a Danehill winner of five of eleven starts, including the VRC Australian Guineas.

A prominent sire at Emirates Park, Murrurundi, Hunter Valley, Al Maher has four yearlings in the Easter catalogue, including a half-brother to top racehorse and sire Encosta de Lago. Redoute’s Choice supplies a mouth watering collection of 44 lots.

Dancing Show’s success in Australia has added a new chapter of achievement world wide for her own immediate family. There are at least eighty stakes winners under her first two dams, including many sires and winner producers.

Two imports who had an input into success at this week’s Adelaide Cup meeting were the stakes winning half-brothers Masterclass (by the Northern Dancer sire The Minstrel), sire of the dam of King Cugat Pewsey Vale Stakes (2yos) winner Secret Status, and Xaar (by the Mr. Prospector grandson Zafonic), the sire of Adelaide Cup long neck second Saddler’s Story.

Products of Monroe, a stakes winning sister by Sir Ivor to Show Lady, Masterclass and Xaar appear valuable ways through their descendants of accessing this wonderful family.