A $740,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Moody Racing from the Segenhoe Stud
draft, three year-old colt Canalasso is now trained by Darren Weir.Sent out a short priced favourite, Canalasso did everything right from gate one to travel just behind the leaders and skipped clear to win the 1100 metre maiden by two and a quarter lengths on heavy ground.
Entered for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas, Canalasso runs for a syndicate that includes Sarah Moody and several high profile breeders including John Camilleri of Fairway Thoroughbreds, who also bred the colt.
He is the second winner for Group III winning Anabaa (USA) mare Avenue, a full sister to dual Group I winner Virage de Fortune from the family of champion mare Emancipation.
Also saluting on debut at Muswellbrook for the Rod Northam stable was three year-old filly L'Elu, a homebred for Belinda Bateman.
She won the 1000 metre maiden in good style by two lengths as favourite.
Foaled and raised at Newgate Farm, L'Elu is pictured below as a foal in 2013 and is the third winner from three foals to race from Encosta de Lago's Group I winning daughter Apercu.
Apercu was covered last spring by Newgate Farm's young gun Wandjina, who was raced by Belinda Bateman and her late husband Dr Edmund Bateman.
The current yearling from Apercu, a colt by Foxwedge was sold through the Newgate Farm draft at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale earlier this year to renowned New Zealand pinhookers Hallmark Stud for $50,000.
