The Michael Moroney-trained Tivaci upset a betting plonk on Winx's half-brother El Divino and race favourite Hellbent in Saturday's Listed Kensington Stakes (1000m) at Flemington.
Not many sons of High Chaparral (IRE) can win a stakes race over 1000 metres and the victory will do no harm to Tivaci's stallion appeal and to that of his three-quarter-brother by Dundeel heading to the Easter Yearling sale.
Winner of the Group III CS Hayes Stakes, Tivaci placed in the Group I Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) and Group I Toorak Handicap (1600m) in the spring.
Ridden by Patrick Moloney, Tivaci scored by a long head from El Divino with Hellbent not receiving much racing room, a neck away third. (photo Grant Courtney).
Moroney's racing manager Anthony Feroce said the stable had some thinking to do.
"The original plan was to run in the two 1400 metre Group Ones (C F Orr Stakes and Futurity Stakes) and then come back to the Newmarket, but Mike may reassess that after today," Feroce told AAP.
"He's got a lot of options."
Bred by the late Bart Cummings, Tivaci was a $250,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Paul Moroney Bloodstock from the Princes Farm draft.
He is the first foal of winning Fastnet Rock mare Breccia, a half-sister to Group I winner Allez Wonder and Group III winner Pretty Pins from Group II Perth Cup winner Luna Tudor.
Sheamus Mills Bloodstock paid $180,000 for Breccia's weanling colt by
He was consigned by Bell View Park Stud, which acquired Breccia for $70,000 at the 2013 Inglis Easter Broodmare sale.
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Not served in 2015, Breccia visited Brazen Beau last spring.
The final crop by the sadly missed High Chaparral goes through the sales this year.
He has 13 lots catalogued in the NZ Bloodstock Premier Yearling sale, 6 at the Inglis Classic, 21 at the Inglis Premier, and 21 at Easter.
