The
Hayes / Dabernig training partnership produced a well-bred Fastnet Rock winner
on Monday at Ballarat that scored as a short priced favourite.
Three year-old gelding First Amendment relished a step up to 1600 metres to win
running away by nearly three lengths at his fourth start carrying the familiar colours of Pinecliff Racing, who race him in partnership.
A $280,000 NZB Premier purchase from the Cambridge Stud draft for Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock/ Lindsay Park, First Amendment
is the first winner for Zantelagh, a metro winning Zabeel daughter of Group I
winning sprinter Dantelah.
The Fastnet Rock x Zabeel cross has proven successful with 61.5% winners to
runners and five stakes-winners headed by Group I winners Atlantic Jewel and
Planet Rock.