Written by Paul Vettise
Frost Flowers (Frosted {USA}) has plenty to live up to on pedigree and the filly showed at Flemington on Friday that she has inherited an impressive degree of the family ability with a sizzling debut victory.
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained juvenile put away her rivals with a minimum of fuss in the New Year’s Sprint to strongly indicate she has the talent to make her presence felt in black-type company.
In the hands of Jamie Kah, Frost Flowers bounced out to take up a prominent position and lodged her claim 300 metres from home and under a kind ride drew out to beat Tayla’s Moment (Shalaa {Ire}) by 1.5l with I Am Enchanting (I Am Invincible) third.
“That was pretty impressive and when they came to the middle of the track it’s always pretty hard for a 2-year-old having its first start to come along the inside like that,” the stable’s Racing Manager Brad Taylor said.
“Jamie was swinging on her and it was a pretty easy watch. She’s a filly that is going to improve and has done everything right from the day we got her.
“She is pretty professional and a nice filly with the pedigree to back it up and nice to train another winner for Godolphin.”
“She is pretty professional and a nice filly with the pedigree to back it up and nice to train another winner for Godolphin.” – Brad Taylor
Frost Flowers is a half-sister to stablemate and G3 Blue Diamond Prelude winner Hanseatic (Street Boss {USA}) and they are out of Itameri (Exceed And Excel).
Frost Flowers wins impressively on debut
It is a rich pedigree which features the champion mare Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) and her four-time Group 1-winning half-brother and sire All Too Hard, the G1 Galaxy H. winner and sire Magnus and the G2 Schillaci S. winner and sire Wilander.
Another hugely-talented member of this family is the dual Group 1 winner Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon).
Frost Flower’s Godolphin-bred and raced barnmate Lyre (Lonhro) won the 2019 G1 Blue Diamond S. off the back of success in the G2 Blue Diamond Prelude and it is a path the stable will follow again.
“She will probably go to Caulfield on Australia Day for the first of the Blue Diamond series and, hopefully, we can get right through to the end of February,” Taylor said.
Frost Flower’s rider Jamie Kah was pleasantly surprised with the filly’s manners at Flemington.
“That was lovely and she had been good at the jump-outs, but nothing spectacular. The team brought her to Flemington the other day and that was probably the difference between winning and losing,” she said.
“She was so green and today she was an absolute professional. She’s got talent and to see her do that down the straight was exceptional.”
