Fastnet Rock Colt Wins $500,000 Inglis Nursery

Tara Madgwick - Saturday December 12

The $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday has proven a launching for subsequent Golden Slipper winners She Will Reign and Mossfun as well as Blue Diamond winner Extreme Choice with this year’s winner Acrobat showing all the attributes of a future superstar.

Acrobat wins the $500,000 Inglis Nursery - image Steve Hart

Passed in at Inglis Easter shy of his $1million reserve, Fastnet Rock colt Acrobat was retained to race by Coolmore and partners and sent to the powerful Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable.

He showed good ability in two recent trials and fitted with blinkers for his race day debut jumped out of the ground for James McDonald to power clear and win by more than two lengths in a slick 56.02 seconds.
 



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“He floats across the ground, he has a beautiful mind and a good action, he’ll make a proper racehorse,” said James McDonald.

Ciaron Maher was thrilled with the performance.

“I was involved with his mother and she was a great racehorse, so for him to come to his first start and do that is very satisfying,” Maher said.

“Horses that race like him make their own luck, so it’s a huge advantage and I couldn’t be happier.”

Hips Don't Lie was a ripper of a 2YO winning  the 2008 G2 Reisling Stakes - image Mark Smith.

Foaled and raised at Coolmore, Acrobat is the seventh winner from seven foals to race from Hips Don’t Lie, a former brilliant two year-old by Stravinsky (USA) that won the Group II STC Reisling Stakes.

All of her seven foals to race have been by Fastnet Rock and they include Group III winner Ennis Hill, Group I placed stakes-winner Lake Geneva and stakes-placed Memphis Rock with Acrobat her third stakes-winner.

Memphis Rock won at Flemington on Saturday to give the family a winning double!

 

Acrobat as a yearling.

Hips Don’t Lie had a change of pace in 2018, so has a yearling filly by I Am Invincible and was covered by Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) earlier this spring after missing to him last year.

Acrobat is the 165th stakes-winner for Coolmore’s champion sire Fastnet Rock and is his second juvenile stakes-winner  of the new season joining Sneaky Five.


 

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Race Result - Inglis Nursery LR 1000m

Randwick Track: Good(3) Time: 0:56.02
1
Acrobat
- 2c Fastnet Rock (AUS) x Hips Don't Lie (NZ) (Stravinsky (USA))
Tnr: C Maher & D Eustace Rdr: J B Mc Donald 56
Fastnet Rock
2
2.3
Ashema
- 2f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Omniscient (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham Rdr: Rachel King 54
I Am Invincible
3
4.8
Mission Value
- 2c Capitalist (AUS) x Maglissa (AUS) (Magnus (AUS))
Tnr: Mark Newnham Rdr: J Parr 56
4
5.0
Overmann
- 2g Hinchinbrook (AUS) x Zakayla (GB) (Aqlaam (GB))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: Tommy Berry 56
5
5.5
Collier Bay
- 2f Capitalist (AUS) x Joy Of Flight (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))
Tnr: A J Cummings Rdr: R Dolan 54
6
6.5
Festival Dancer
- 2f Choisir (AUS) x Festival Princess (IRE) (Barathea (IRE))
Tnr: Matthew Smith Rdr: Tom Sherry 54
7
8.5
Belle O'Ballee
- 2f Star Witness (AUS) x Sagrada (NZ) (Perfectly Ready (AUS))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: K Mc Evoy 54
8
8.6
Volcanic Rock
- 2c Hinchinbrook (AUS) x Heat Of The Fire (AUS) (Strategic (AUS))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: Tim Clark 56
9
9.8
Contentedly
- 2f More Than Ready (USA) x Tale Of Choice (AUS) (Redoute's Choice (AUS))
Tnr: G Portelli Rdr: Ms K O'Hara 54
10
10.3
Shocking Force
- 2f Air Force Blue (USA) x Little Shocker (NZ) (Shocking (AUS))
Tnr: C E Conners Rdr: J Ford 54
11
11.5
Turboart
- 2c Flying Artie (AUS) x Excellent Lady (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham Rdr: J R Collett 56
12
12.7
Maralago
- 2c Sebring (AUS) x Martilago (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: A J Cummings Rdr: Regan Bayliss 56
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