Group One-winning mare Bonny Lass will be offered to the public on Gavelhouse Plus next week.

The daughter of Super Easy was raced by her breeder Sandy Moore in partnership with Brent andWendy Cooper and their Social Racing Starting Gates Syndicate. She was trained by Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall through a 26-race career that produced eight wins, eight placings and $774,950 in stakes.

Bonny Lass was a five-time Group winner, headed by the Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m). She backed that up with another four placings at Group One level.

“She was an absolutely amazing horse for her big group of owners,” Brent Cooper said. “Mark Baker at Hallmark Stud researched it and found that only two mares in New Zealand history won Group races at every age from two to six – Melody Belle and Bonny Lass.

“The great Sunline was a Listed winner as a two-year-old from only a handful of starts, so we might be splitting hairs a little bit there. But even so, winning Group races in four consecutive seasons puts Bonny Lass in an incredibly exclusive club.”

Bonny Lass burst on the scene as a two-year-old with wins in her first two starts including the Gr.2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), followed by placings in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) and Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m).

In her three-year-old season, Bonny Lass won three races including the Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), along with a third behind Group One winners On The Bubbles and I Wish I Win in the Listed Mufhasa Stakes (1400m), plus a fourth in the Gr.3 Gold Trail Stakes (1200m).

Bonny Lass won the Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m) as a four-year-old, then returned at five for luckless placings in the Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m) and Telegraph (1200m). She had her deserved moment in the sun in the BCD Group Sprint at Te Rapa in February, where she edged out the previously unbeaten three-year-old Crocetti by a long head.

A six-start campaign as a six-year-old was headed by a superb first-up win in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa last August, beating the likes of Skew Wiff, Waitak, Mustang Valley, Puntura and Sacred Satono.

Bonny Lass is one of three winners from five foals to race out of Posh Bec, who herself won three races and placed in the Listed Soliloquy Stakes (1400m). Posh Bec is also the dam of Clark Kent, who placed in the Listed Welcome Stakes (1000m), while her half-brother Time To Celebrate placed at Group Two level in Hong Kong.

The sale of Bonny Lass will run on Gavelhouse Plus from 10am (NZT) on Wednesday 7th May to 7pm (NZT) Thursday 15th May.