Listed Wagga Wagga Cup, $200,000, 2000m
It was a fifth Chris Waller-trained winner of this provincial feature in a 10-year period; two in a row and four of the last six runnings.
Getting up in the very final strides, the tough import Wicklow (Ire) (Twilight Son {GB}) was having his first run at stakes level, appreciating every bit of the step up to 2000 metres.
Bred by Kildaragh Stud, the €16,000 (AU$26,200) 2019 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale graduate is the seventh stakes winner for his dual Group 1-winning sire who stands for £7000 (AU$13,100) at Cheveley Park Stud.
His two-time winning dam Wake Up (Ger) (Soldier Of Fortune {Ire}) has another son in the Waller stable - the three-time Rosehill winner Waterford (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}) who was second in the G2 Ajax S. in mid March.
Wake Up is a half-sister to the European (Spain and Germany) stakes winners Wild King (Ger) (Samum {Ger}) and Path Wind (Fr) (Anabaa {USA}) whose son Panjari (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) is also a Listed winner.
Wild Queen's dam Wild Romance (Ger) (Sternkoenig {Ire}) was crowned Germany's Champion 2-Year-Old Filly in 1993 and she has had stakes-winning descendants in Germany, England, Italy, France and Dubai.
Wicklow's pedigree combines the three-quarter brothers Nureyev (USA) and Sadler's Wells (USA), giving him a 6 X 6 cross of the aptly named matriarch Special (USA) (Forli {Arg}).
