Magic Millions Dream Lives for Munce

Former champion jockey Chris Munce is no stranger to Magic Millions success and will seek to win the rich $2million 2YO Classic as a trainer for the first time next month with leading hopes Ours to Keep and Champ Elect, who both won Listed races for juveniles at Doomben on Saturday.

Seidnazar colt Ours to Keep was a brilliant runaway debut winner at Doomben back in October and looked just as impressive when surging late to win the Listed BRC Phelan Ready Stakes over 1110 metres by a long neck.

He tracked the leader Snitzkraft throughout for Damian Browne and was too strong for him when it counted on the line.

With prizemoney of $128,700, Ours to Keep has been a savvy purchase for Chris Munce, snapped up for just $28,000 from the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale from the draft of Eliza Park International.

He is the best of three winners from Picabelle, a Piccolo (GB) mare from the family of New Zealand Group I winner Kingdom Bay.

Picabelle produced a full brother to Ours to Keep this spring, so her owners will be thrilled with his stakes success.

Ours to Keep is the first stakes-winner for Seidnazar, a stakes-winning son of Rory's Jester that stands in Queensland at a fee of $2,200.

Munce made it a stakes double when Choisir filly Champ Elect also went two for two with a strong finishing win in the Listed BRC Calaway Gal Stakes over 1110 metres.

Also ridden by Damian Browne, she finished with a late rush to claim a narrow half neck victory, clocking more than a second slower time than her stable mate Ours to Keep.

Champ Elect was a $95,000 Magic Millions purchase for Adrenaline Thoroughbreds from the Attunga Stud draft and has already returned $104,200 in prizemoney for her delighted team of owners.

A successful pinhook having been bought as a weanling for $52,500, she is the first winner for Champalou, a juvenile metropolitan winner by Encosta de Lago from Group I Queensland Oaks winner Vouvray.

The current yearling from Champalou is a Not a Single Doubt filly that will be offered at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale as Lot 410 by Stonehouse Thoroughbreds.

Champ Elect is the 78^th stakes-winner for leading sire Choisir and is bred on a very successful cross being the sixth Choisir stakes-winner bred from a daughter of Encosta de Lago.

The cross runs at 70.8% winners to runners with 17 winners from 24 runners headed by Group I winners Divine Prophet and Japonisme.