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New Zealand-based trainer Roger James has paid tribute to the career of multiple Group 1-winning mare Silent Achiever after the O Reilly mare died on Thursday, aged 12.
Silent Achiever was a four-time Group winner for James and breeder-owner Kevin Hickman, of Valachi Downs, starring as a three-year-old with consecutive wins in the G2 Championship Stakes (2100m) at Ellerslie, the G2 Waikato Guineas (2000m) at Te Rapa, G2 Avondale Guineas (2100m) and G1 New Zealand Derby (2400m), both at Ellerslie.
The winner of the G2 Crystal Mile (1600m) at four, defeating Group 1 winners Rangirangdoo and Solzhenitsyn, Silent Achiever went to a new level again at five.