Looking Ahead puts the spotlight on runners of interest across Australia and New Zealand. Whether they are a particularly well-bred or high-priced runner having their first or second start, a promising galloper returning to the track or a horse which has trialled particularly well, we’ll aim to give you something to follow.
Today, we like the chances at Randwick of an expensive youngster who was a last-start winner and then at Kembla Grange we fancy a pair of lightly-tried performers with winning Group form in their immediate pedigrees.
Rosehill, Race 5, 2.40pm AEST, Listed Drinkwise Dulcify Quality, $150,000, 1500m
Jet Propulsion (Rubick) was a $900,000 purchase at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and is a half-brother to the G1 All Aged S. winner and sire Pierata. Their dam November Flight (Flying Spur) has also produced the G3 Skyline S. winner Ashokan (More Than Ready {USA}) and is the mother of the G3 Vain S. winner Our Playboy (Sebring).
Jet Propulsion as a yearling
Prepared by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Jet Propulsion didn’t flatter on debut on a heavy surface at Canterbury Park and then on a good track at Newcastle last month the colt showed his true colours by defeating two subsequent winners in Centimental (Snitzel), a Group 3 placegetter, and Reaching (Deep Impact {Jpn}). On that effort, he looks capable of measuring up stronger company.
Kembla Grange, Race 2, 1.09pm AEST, Brownsville H., $35,000, 1400m
Sophomore (So You Think {NZ}) is a lightly-tried mare who has a win and a placing from a handful of appearances and there was enough in her resuming effort over this course and distance last month to stay with her. She raced in second spot to the turn before peaking on her run in the straight and should be more competitive with that outing under her belt.
So You Think (NZ), sire of Sophomore | Standing at Coolmore
Trained by John O’Shea, Sophomore is a daughter of the dual Group 2 winner Shania Dane (Danehill {USA}), who was also a multiple Group 1 placegetter. She is a sister to Scintillation, who won six times at stakes level in Hong Kong, and a half-sister to the Listed winner Risk Aversion (Encosta De Lago) and the family of the G1 Diamond S. winner Summer Passage (Snitzel).
Kembla Grange, Race 3, 1.44pm AEST, Dombarton H., $35,000, 1000m
Pazienza (Written Tycoon) will make her Australian debut here after a runaway victory at Trentham in her only other appearance from Jamie Richards’ stable. She looked sharp when successful in a recent trial at Randwick and she looks primed to give a bold sight here.
Pazienza as a yearling
A $280,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase, Pazienza is a half-sister to five winners including the Group 3-placed Folk Dress (Pierro). Their dam Gypsy Chimes (Snow Ridge {USA}) is a half-sister to the two-time Group 3 winner La Chunga (USA) (More Than Ready {USA}) with the G1 Hollywood Derby winner and sire Steve’s Friend (USA) also a member of this family.
