Rio Will Rock
JASON and Craig Schmidt have always know just how good their home-bred Rio Will Rock is and Sunday’s track record breaking performance at Capalaba proved just that.
Now trained by Tom Tzouvelis, Rio Will Rock is Rio Brave-August Flame by Collision.
He really is the ultimate in home-bred.
Jason and Craig raced the sire, Rio Brave (El Grand Senor-Mercedes Lass by Bartrim Bale) and he was something else.
He ran a 30.30 Novice class record at Ipswich, was third in the Derby there but a finalist in the G1 Silver Chief, G1 Nat Derby and the G3 Ipswich Cup.
He is from the famed direct damline of Val Matese, the damline of Million Dollar Chase winner McInerney.
When the Schmidt boys put August Flame (winner of 12 races) to him, they devised a pedigree that carried some intense line breeding.
They had already outcrossed her to UK sprint star Ballymac Vic, a son of Kinloch Brae, with handy success, and a one-pup litter by Thirty Talks that won one race.
The mating to Rio Brave produced only two offspring to race and Rio Will Rock is easily the standout.
But, what is so, so interesting about the pedigree of the new Capalaba track record holder (19.17) is that his pedigree is a virtual recreation of legend race bitch Wow She’s Fast (My Bro Fabio-Fair Of Face by Barcia Bale).
For those even the slightest bit interested, get onto greyhound data and do a test mating of Rio Will Rock with Wow She’s Fast and see the obvious similarities.
Both Rio and Wow are intensely in-bred to the litter brothers Where’s Pedro and Hallucinate and their half brother Pure Octane.
Rio Will Rock has a cross of Bartrim Bale. Wow She’s Fast has in her pedigree a cross of Bartrim Bale’s litter sister Princess Bale.
Both Rio and Wow have a strong cross of Primo Uno in their pedigree, and the Portrait family is represented strongly as well, and so is Malawi’s Prince.
Rio Will Rock’s direct damline is that of Sound The Alarm and is the same damline as Head Honcho.
In recent times this is the family of those great littermates Ring The Bell, Bells Are Ringin and Blazin Bomber.
Bells Are Ringin is the dam of G1 star Vice Grip.
