Fresh off supplying a pair of winners at the Vaal on Thursday, Ridgemont’s inform stallion Canford Cliffs was back in the news, this time as a broodmare sire, on Friday.
His stakes placed daughter Bumbasina is the dam of outstanding Australian filly Amelia’s Jewel, who broke the track record when she won the G2 Labrokes Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

Jockey Damian Lane surprisingly pushed forward on the four-year-old to sit second in the run in Friday’s 1600m contest, sitting off Pride Of Jenni. Amelia’s JJewel loomed up on the corner and won by ¾ of a length from Pride Of Jenni, breaking the 1600m course record in the process. Damian Lane said Amelia’s Jewel never flinched in chasing down Pride Of Jenni, who was not about to surrender without a fight.”I had to ask her for a bit of an effort,” Lane said. “Pride Of Jenni made a real race of it, and I was just glad I was able to put her in a position because if I was off the pace, I might not have caught her. She’s doing things really well. I think she still has a bit more to come, so it’s exciting time.
Coming off a fast-finishing come-from-behind win in the G2 Let’s Elope Stakes at Flemington at her eastern states debut, the Simon Miller-trained mare advances her record to nine wins and two seconds from 11 starts with earnings of $2,744,100
A tilt at the G1 Cox Plate could be on the cards for Amelia’s Jewel, whose previous triumphs include the 2022 G1 Drummond Golf -Northerly Stakes. Her dam Bumbasina won twice and finished second in the Listed Ruby Stakes and third in the Listed Navigation Stakes.
Former Irish 2000 Guineas winner Canford Cliffs has made a pleasing start to the 2023-2024 South African racing season and currently sits above the likes of Lancaster Bomber, Rafeef, Silvano and The United States on the South African General Sires List.