Juvenile Trial Watch – Randwick

Tara Madgwick - Monday October 10

The big wet in Sydney meant the Randwick trials on Monday morning were run on the polytrack with an interesting heat for juveniles featuring several high-profile colts including the winner who cost $1.4million.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Snitzel colt Head of the Herd carries the weight of expectation being a sibling to dual Group I winner Stratum Star, Group III winner Prague and Group III placed Serenade, which explains his Inglis Easter purchase price of $1.4million.

He was asked to go forward and take the lead after jumping from the inside and did that with a minimum of fuss, travelling on the bit most of the way for Tim Clark to score a long neck win over a raft of late closers that finished in a pack with second place-getter Coincide a half-brother to dual Group I winner Converge.

 

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Bred by GSA Bloodstock and offered in the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft, Head of the Herd runs for Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock. His dam Purely Spectacular has the perfect record of five foals to race and all are winners with Head of the Herd looking most likely to add to her success.

Catching the eye in the finishing pack was I Am Invincible colt Mojave Desert and while the result will show him finishing seventh of eight, he was beaten less than a length and there was a lot to like about his effort.

Trained by Chris Waller, who never has his juveniles wound up this early, Mojave Desert was slow out and allowed to find his feet before working home out wide with some enthusiasm which would suggest optimism for the future.

Mojave Desert was a $950,000 Inglis Premier purchase topping the sale.

Mojave Desert was the Inglis Premier sale topper this year bought by Tom Magnier for $950,000 from the Widden Stud draft. He is a full brother to Group III placed Covert Ops from Group III winner Fine Bubbles, who traces back to the family of Everest winner Yes Yes Yes and dual Group I winning sprinter In Her Time.

See all the results at Breednet with Sale Mail and at Racing NSW with video.

 

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