Coeur Volante lookalike added to Moroney’s Proisir collection at Karaka

Trans-Tasman trainer Mike Moroney went to $170,000 to secure the top-Lot on Day 2 of Book 2 of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale, a Proisir filly out of the Northern Meteor mare Polson.

Catalogued as Lot 896, Moroney was keen to secure the filly by the champion sire out of Rich Hill Stud’s draft, drawing physical similarities to a stable star.

“She is very similar to Coeur Volante,” Moroney said.

Coeur Volante was a Group 2 winner during the Melbourne spring carnival before finishing fourth in the Group 1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield.

“From the time I saw her and watched her walk up, she just reminded me so much of (Coeur Volante) in colour and the whole lot,” Moroney said.

“It’s a good filly family and we thought she was the right one for us.”

From the family of top-class mare Skating, Moroney again relied on the eyes of his brother Paul and Catheryne Bruggeman to identify the classy filly, with the trio also going to $240,000 for a Proisir filly out of Fascinate Me in Book 1.

“Paul and Catheryne have done all the groundwork and they mentioned her to me quite early in the piece,” Moroney said.

“Being a Proisir, they knew I’d been keen on them, so they showed me what they thought were the two best Proisir fillies in the catalogue and I bought both of them.

“When this filly got around here [parade ring] she wanted to run right through the bridle wanting to get right on with the job and that’s what Coeur Volante is like, too.

“They’re nice athletes. There’s a lot of balance about them, a nice amount of rein, and big nostrils.”