Juvenile Trial Watch – Rosehill

Tara Madgwick - Monday February 27

The Rosehill trials on Monday morning featured six heats for juveniles with winners including a $1.4million Snitzel colt, the daughter of a Golden Slipper winner and a close relation to Anamoe.

Champion sire I Am Invincible had two winners with Team Hawkes putting the polish on Mathkhoora, an Emirates Park homebred I Am Invincible filly from their Golden Slipper winner Mossfun, whose yearling colt by I Am Invincible sold for $1.65million at Magic Millions earlier this year.

Mathkhoora was second at her only previous trial last October and did everything right here to lead all the way and beat seasoned filly Remedies, last seen finishing second to Café Millenium at Randwick.

 

Mossfun has had two foals to race, both by Frankel, that have both won with Dajraan a winner here of the Group III ATC Festival Stakes.

 

The Maher Eustace team gave a good hit out to a couple of their youngsters in the slightly longer 1030m trial and I Am Invincible filly Tiz Invincible forged clear of her stablemate Exceed Perfection with some seven lengths back to the next horse.

 

 

Tiz Invincible was a $550,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Bahen Bloodstock / Ciaron Maher Racing / Eric Lucas from the Segenhoe draft and is bred to be good being the second foal of blue-blood import Amuletum (GB), a half-sister by New Approach to the mighty Anamoe.

$550,000 Inglis Easter purchase Tiz Invincible is from a half-sister to Anamoe.

Advertisement
Segenhoe sold a Pierata colt from Amuletum at Magic Millions this year for $200,000.

 

 

Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, $1.4million Snitzel colt Head of the Herd went forward and won this trial at his first public appearance this year following two promising trials last year, but the eye-catching run was another expensive Snitzel colt in Fightertown.

 

Head of the Herd is a sibling to dual Group I winner Stratum Star and Group III winner Prague, so much is expected of him.

Prepared by Chris Waller, $1.1million colt Fightertown settled at the rear and let down with a great finish and will be improved when he goes back to the races following an even debut when he was slow to muster and then finished a modest sixth to Red Resistance and Steel City. Will be interested to see if blinkers are added.

 

The fastest of the 900m 2YO heat winners was the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained The Autumn Sun filly Autumn Ballet, who finished in a different post code some seven lengths in front of her nearest rivals clocking 34.22 seconds for the final 600m.

 

A $340,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Arrowfield Stud draft for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott / Kestrel Thoroughbreds, Autumn Ballet is from Street Cry (IRE) mare Grisi, a half-sister to three Group winners from the family of champion racehorse and sire Lonhro.

Autumn Ballet as a yearling.

Arrowfield will offer her full sister at Inglis Easter this year as Lot 157, so will be hoping she carries this form forward into race day before the sale!

 

The Autumn Sun was not the only first season sire to post a winner with Trapeze Artist also making his mark with well named colt Costner, who improved at his second trial to win by more than a length.

Trained by John O’Shea, he raced deep covering ground in his first trial and was held together down the running and then this time showed better tactical speed to cross and find the fence and although still a bit green in his action looked good to the line.

 

 

 

A $320,000 Inglis Easter purchase for his trainer from the Widden Stud draft, he is the second foal of More than a Legend (USA), a winning More Than Ready mare from the family of Champion 2YO Colt and Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense.

Costner as a yearling

Widden Stud will offer his full brother at Inglis Easter as Lot 251.

 

Russian Revolution has some nice juveniles this season and the Annabel Neasham trained colt Libertad might add to their success finishing off strongly up the fence to win his second trial after his first trial two weeks ago when he chased home low flying Red Resistance for second.

 

A $40,000 Inglis Classic purchase that made $210,000 when bought by his trainer at the Inglis Ready 2 Race, Libertad is a half-brother to two winners from Electric Charge, a winning half-sister by Charge Forward to Group III winner Miss Darcey from juvenile stakes-winner Miss Bussell.

Click here for all the trial results at Breednet with Sale Mail and at Racing NSW with video.

 

 

Advertisment
More Reading...
Knights Choice a True Underdog Story
Punters were left stunned when the Queenslander Knight's Choice and Japanese visitor Warp Speed (JPN) emerged from the pack to fight out a dramatic finish to the $8,560,000 Group 1 Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington.
El Vencedor wins G3 Balmerino Stakes
El Vencedor is making a habit of picking up major victories at Ellerslie, adding the Gr.3 Balmerino Stakes (2000m) to his burgeoning record at Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup Day meeting.
$6million Frankel Mare Tops Fasig -Tipton November Sale
The Fasig-Tipton November Sale, billed as the World’s Premier Breeding Stock Event, was held Monday at the company’s Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky. Twenty-five offerings sold for $1,000,000 or more, led by a trio of Grade/Group 1 winners with international appeal.
All Too Hard's Arran Bay Brave in the Furphy Plate
Phillip Stokes admitted his preference was to run Arran Bay in the Listed John Letts Cup at Morphettville but was overruled by the owners, who made the correct decision in favouring the Listed Furphy Plate (1800m) at Flemington.
Sires With Winners - Tuesday November 5
Here is the full list of 145 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Kiwi Bred Gringotts Wins $3million Big Dance
Talented New Zealand-bred gelding Gringotts(NZ) (Per Incanto) delivered a big payday for his connections with victory in Tuesday’s A$3 million Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick.
2024 Melbourne Cup Result - It's Knights Choice
The 2024 Melbourne Cup has been run and won with Knight’s Choice, a five-year-old gelding by Extreme Choice victorious.
More Stakes Success for Air Assault
Group I placed last season in the SA Derby, talented gelding Air Assault kept the winning run going for Victoria Derby winning trainer Andrew Gluyas when taking out the Listed SAJC John Letts Cup (1800m) at Morphettville on Melbourne Cup Day.
Kiwi Bred Grey Wins Subzero for OTI at Flemington
New Zealand-bred gelding Cloudland proved a handful for James McDonald at Flemington on Tuesday, but the champion jockey was in a forgiving mood after they had claimed top honours in the Subzero Handicap.
Rosemont and Partners Stakes Quinella on Cup Day
Written Tycoon posted his second new stakes-winner on Melbourne Cup Day when promising three year-old gelding Catoggio took out the Listed VRC Amanda Elliot Stakes (1400m)  for Rosemont Stud and partners, who also race the second horse Bosustow.