yola was another of the Catmint daughters who have played their part in the modern thoroughbred. Piko by Fair’s Fair was another NZ star of the late 1960’s. He too won four Guineas races but also won two Derbies in the Great Northern and NZ Derby. In all he won eleven stakes races. More readers will be familiar with Sky Flyer who was by Half Iced and born in 1987. He had his first trip to Australia in the Spring of 1991 in an ambitious campaign that saw him win the Werribee Cup to gain a start in the Melbourne Cup of that
