Oakland Park homebred Queen Of Hawks continued the winning start to the year for her sire Sessions in the Cuprum Distillery Hcp (1000m) at Bunbury on Wednesday.
The Pearce Racing-trained 4yo mare came from the back of the field to notch the fourth win for Sessions in the first week of 2026. The Oakland Park resident jumped the gun with Amaroo Star at Ascot on New Year’s Day and doubled up with Outlaw Music and Fitzpatrick Plate winner Supernatural at Albany on Sunday.
Queen Of Hawks (Photo / Westen Racepix) made two profitable trips to Geraldton as a 3yo and is on a hat-trick this season after a Narrogin win on December 20. “That was a great ride by Chris (Parnham) bearing in mind she rolled them along at Narrogin,” co-trainer Dan Pearce explained. “He let her breathe and go through the gears. She built momentum and ran through the line strongly which proves she’s not a one-trick pony.”
Her dam Imperial Hawk (Purrealist) won three races up to 2100m in New Zealand and she’s a full-sister to Hawkspur (G1 Queensland Derby) and Devil Hawk (G3 Newcastle Spring Stakes).
Imperial Hawk was purchased for $30,000 by Belmont Bloodstock’s Damon Gabbedy for Oakland Park at the 2018 Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale. She changed hands again in 2023 and has a Ducimus yearling filly for her Bullsbrook-based owner John Paikos.
Supernatural is another successful 4yo daughter of Sessions and her bank-balance raced past $450,000 when she diffused an on-pace bias in the $125,000 Fitzpatrick Plate (1230m) at Albany on Sunday.
“We were confident coming down here until the early pattern went against back-markers,” Durrant Racing foreman Jordan Rolfe admitted as Willie Pike brought the mare back to scale. “She’s an unassuming type but can reel off a wicked sectional.”
Supernatural maintained her family’s connection with the feature sprint of the season in the Great Southern. Her older full-brother Supersession also came from the rear of the field to win the 2024 Fitzpatrick Plate for Pike and Durrant Racing. And their dam Talk of Angels (Rock Of Gibraltar) was beaten a long-neck by Corporate Larrikin (Trade Fair) in the 2014 Fitzpatrick Plate.
Sessions (Lonhro) can continued his winning run with a strong book at Ascot on Saturday headed by Jaz Session who has opened a $3.60 second favourite for the LR Miss Andretti Stakes (1100m).
