Champion Melody Belle’s daughter Lyrics ‘N’ Song will make her debut at Moonee Valley on Friday, with trainer Mark Walker describing the three-year-old filly as well above average.
Melody Belle won a record 14 Group 1 races for former Te Akau trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards for New Zealand syndicator Fortuna, while her daughter steps out in the colours of Yulong, who purchased her dam for $2.6 million at the Gold Coast.
Lyrics ‘N’ Song will line-up in the Drummond Gold Plate (1200m) on Friday and Walker is looking forward to seeing how she performs under race pressure.
“It has come up quite a strong field, there is a fair bit of depth to it, but she has drawn nicely and should acquit herself well,” he said.
“She has jumped out nicely and she has inherited some of mum’s ability, I don’t know how much yet, but I think she is well above average at this stage.”
“We are very grateful that Yulong gave us the first foal to train, and hopefully she is a good broodmare for them.”
Melody Belle has a yearling filly by Diatonic and foal filly by I Am Invincible.