Listowel maiden winner gets Tweenhills stallion Hot Streak off the mark

Hot Streak has become the latest of this year's first-season sires to get off the mark, with daughter Between Hills scoring at the second attempt in a 6½f median auction maiden at Listowel on Sunday.

The January-foaled Between Hills, who finished third to Back To Brussels on debut at Navan in April, is trained by Jessica Harrington after being purchased by BBA Ireland for €88,000 from the Kilcarn Park draft at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale.

Between Hills finished well on Sunday to defeat the Joseph O'Brien-trained Starspangledbanner colt Eriking by a neck and jockey Shane Foley reported after the race: “She did very well to win as she hit the rail after about two furlongs and I went from being in a great position to being in a terrible position.

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“She's not short of gears but, on that evidence, you would like to think she will stay seven furlongs. She was unlucky at Navan where we didn't get much luck so it was nice to see her put her head in front here.”

Bred by Brid Cosgrove, Between Hills is the fourth foal out of the Acclamation mare Breedj, a non winner but second in the Listed Marygate Stakes at two. The dam has produced two previous winners, both over sprint distances, in Miss Power (by Zebedee) and Cuppacoffee (by Intense Focus).

Breedj is out of the unraced Indian Ridge mare Kildare Lady, a half-sister to three winners out of Firth of Clyde Stakes scorer Braari.

Hot Streak, a son of Iffraaj from the illustrious Height Of Fashion family, won the Cornwallis Stakes and was a close second in the Middle Park Stakes at two and landed the Temple Stakes and took third in the King's Stand Stakes at three.

He stands at Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire at a fee of £7,000 and his other early debut juvenile representatives in 2019 have included Illusionist, who has finished runner-up on both his starts, and Mecca's Hot Steps, who has a second and third next to her name.

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