With
all the excitement of Golden Slipper weekend it was easy to miss the first
winner for young Darley sire Kuroshio, a son of champion sire Exceed and Excel.
Two year-old colt Savatoxl made a winning debut at Pioneer Park in Alice
Springs taking out the $16,500 Inglis Handicap over 1000 metres by nearly four
lengths.
The youngster was one of a number of yearlings purchased every year by the
Alice Springs Turf Club from the Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale that are
re-offered at the Red Centre Yearling Sale and are eligible for their incentive
race at Pioneer Park the following year.
Savatoxl was an $8,000 purchase from the Stonehouse Thoroughbreds draft and is
a half-brother to two winners from Savabeel mare Lil' Miss Hayley.
A brilliant Group II winner by Exceed and Excel, Kuroshio covered his biggest
book so far of 133 mares at Darley Victoria last spring at a fee of $7,700.