FRIENDS Peter Reynolds and Robert Dore bred the recent Grade 3 Astra Stakes winner Pantsonfire. The Santa Anita feature race winner was landing her first stakes victory, though last year she was placed in the Grade 3 Santa Barbara Stakes and the Possibly Perfect Stakes. She is now a four-time winner and this week’s success pushed her earning well past $200,000.

Pantsonfire started her racing career in Ireland, running in the colours of Richie Galway when trained by his mother-in-law Jessica Harrington. A €31,000 foal purchase at Goffs, she was placed on the last of her four starts here before shipping to America and the stables of Richard Baltas. She was quickly off the mark there, winning at the end of her three-year-old career, and she seems to be getting better with age.