Royal Randwick racecourse was not the only part of the big autumn meeting on Saturday that has been under the patronage of English Royalty. Another was the imported racehorse My Kingdom of Fife, the shock winner at up to 150-1 at his first Australian start of the $125,000 Emirates Doncaster Mile Prelude.

This 6-year-old gelding had previously competed in England without the My in his name for his breeder, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. She also bred and raced his first three dams and may have given him his name.

Kingdom of Fife is the ancestral home of Scottish monarchs and today is revered world wide as the Home of Golf.

Owned in Australia by Robert Pegum, Ray Willis and M. Buys and trained at Rosehill by Chris Waller, My Kingdom of Fife was appearing for first time since being trounced in a Listed event at Windsor, England on August 28 when he won at Randwick. He ran six times in England in 2010 with the best effort being a 2.4 lengths third in a Listed event over 2000m at Ascot.

My Kingdom of Fife showed up better than that in the previous two years. At one stage he was in the first three in nine successive outings, all in the 2000-2400m range, including three wins. In one of them, the Zetland  Gold Cup, he led for much of the trip and scored by 2.5 lengths.

His English performances and breeding suggests he could stay well in longer Australian races. He is by one of the best Mr. Prospector sires in Kingmambo and from Fairy Godmother, a Listed winner at 2000m, got by Encosta de Lago’s sire Fairy King.

The immediate breeding is similar that produced the Coolmore visitor Henrythenavigator.This world class miler is by Kingmambo and from a mare by Fairy King’s illustrious brother Sadler’s Wells.

My Kingdom of Fife’s third dam Hiighclere, a daughter of Denise’s Joy’s paternal grandsire Queen’s Hussar, was one of the Queen’s best race fillies.

She won the English One Thousand Guineas and French Oaks and included among her foals the Bustino Group 2 winner Height of Fashion, dam of six stakes winners, among them prominent sires Nashwan, Nayef and Unfuwain.

Another daughter of Height of Fashion, the Mr. Prospector Cheshire Oaks second Bashayer, went to Storm Cat  and produced Mosayter, a proven source of winners from use in Western Australia who transferred last year to Louise Ellis’s Argyle Thoroughbreds at Panuara near Orange, NSW.

Available on a modest fee, Mosayter had two winners in the west last week.They were Solsay, a debut winner at Bunbury, and Orchestrated Power, successful by 2.5 lengths at Geraldton.

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