A look into the pedigree of Saturday’s Group 1 winner at Caulfield.
Those who looked at the pedigree of Saturday's Group 1 Underwood Stakes winner Buckaroo might have thought a couple of the names looked familiar.
The Chris Waller-trained gelding is by Fastnet Rock, who needs no introduction as a two-time Australian Champion Stallion and producer of champions across the globe, out of the mare Roheryn.
It wasn't that long ago Australian fans were cheering on a Roheryn, a product of Lonhro and Mannington who won eight of 27 starts, including a Group 3 Show County Quality (1200m) and a couple of editions of the Listed Falvelon Stakes (1200m) in Queensland.
But he was a gelding, so obviously not the dam of Buckaroo, whose mother is a daughter of Galileo who was a Listed winner over 2414m and was placed in the Group 2 Blandford Stakes (2012m) in Ireland.
That Roheryn is a sister to Fastnet Latina (Fastnet Rock), who was a five-time winner in Australia, and the dam of another high-profile galloper who will soon be competing in Australia.
The year after Roheryn produced Buckaroo, she had Middle Earth, the recently-gelded son of Roaring Lion who has won four of nine starts and was placed in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes (2414m) at Royal Ascot earlier this year.
Middle Earth is now trained by Ciaron Maher, but will miss this year's Spring Carnival after suffering an injury last month.
He and Buckaroo are among five to race for Roheryn, whose first foal Kihavah is an eight-time winner who was runner-up to Magical Zoe in this year's Ebor Handicap (2816m) at York.
Buckaroo's Underwood Stakes success was the first for a son or daughter of Fastnet Rock, who has now thrown 44 individual Group 1 winners, 10 of them being out of daughters of Galileo.