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Winning Start to Season for Wandjina

Tara Madgwick - Saturday August 3
Newgate Farm's Wandjina made a winning start to the new season with a debut winner on Friday from the powerful Lindsay Park racing team in Grand Diamond.

WandjinaThe three year-old filly travelled smoothly in fourth place and then surged to the line to win the 1200 metre maiden at Ballarat by a length and a quarter.

A $20,000 purchase from the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale from the Watson Bloodstock draft, Grand Diamond is the first winner for Grand Excess, a half-sister by Exceed and Excel to Group III winner Stand Tall and stakes-winner Seul Amour.

Grand Excess is from Champion 3YO Filly Grand Archway, who won both the VRC Oaks and Australian Oaks among her four Group I victories, so Grand Diamond may well appreciate a little further than the 1200 metres of this win.

Grand Diamond is the first winner of the new season for Wandjina, but is also his ninth first crop winner.

A Group I winning son of Snitzel, Wandjina excelled as a three year-old over a mile, placing in the Caulfield Guineas in the spring and then winning the Group I VRC Australian Guineas in the autumn, so we can expect to see his progeny come into their own over the next 12 months.

He stands this spring at a fee of $22,000.

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