Strong Mandate Gets First Black-Type Winner in Chile

Second-crop sire Strong Mandate 's first black-type winner appeared at Hipodromo Chile April 13 when his daughter Ragazza Di Parma won a gritty running of the Alberto Vial Letelier Stakes.

Bred by Haras Doña Icha and raced by Stud Auguri, the 2-year-old filly prevailed by head over tenacious competitor Moonlight Shadow, a daughter of Shanghai Bobby. The final time for the seven-furlong race was 1:26.02.

Ragazza Di Parma is out of the winning Storm Warning daughter Matta Matta, who is also the dam of grade 1-placed, grade 3 winner Hakuna Matata, by Layman, and of grade 2-placed winner San Vene, by Breathless Storm.

Strong Mandate is a grade 1-winning son of Tiznow  out of the multiple grade 1 winning Deputy Minister mare Clear Mandate. As a racehorse, Strong Mandate won the 2013 Hopeful Stakes (G1) and finished third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). He was runner-up in the Southwest Stakes (G2) at 3 before injury knocked him off the Triple Crown trail. Strong Mandate was later retired to stud at Three Chimneys Farm with a 2-1-1 record out of eight starts and $529,566 in earnings. 

Strong Mandate is currently ranked eighth on BloodHorse.com's leading second-crop sire list with $521,403 in progeny earnings through April 13. He has sired 23 winners from 64 starters to date worldwide and has one other black-type performer in Policy, who was second in last year's I'm Smokin Stakes at Del Mar. The stallion has been shuttled to Chile in 2015-17.

Strong Mandate stands for a fee of $10,000 in 2019.