Commands claimed his third individual Stakes winner of the new season with five-year-old Lamasery saluting in the G3 Kingston Town Stakes at Rosehill over 2000m on September 10. After travelling on the speed throughout, jockey Brendan Avdulla got the gelding into the clear where he showed great determination to claim the prize in the last few strides to win by a head in a time of 2:02.50.
Bred by Woodlands Stud and out of Quest for Fame mare Verse, Lamasery has now won eight out of his 14 starts.
Commands is coming off a highly successful 2010-11 season which saw him earn honours as the leading sire of individual winners setting an unprecedented benchmark of 155 winners. The sire of ten Australian Stakes winners last season, highlighted by the G1-winning Erewhon and G2 winner Soul, as well as juvenile Stakes winners Altar and Atomic, Commands is now the sire of 41 individual Stakes winners.
Standing at Darley Kelvinside at a fee of $66,000 (inc GST), Commands has achieved G1 winners in each of his last three seasons and is right up there with the best stallion-sons of the immortal Danehill to stand in Australia
