Cover image courtesy of Tasracing Australia
Listed Tasmanian S., $125,000, 1600m
Showing good heart getting up along the rails to record his second victory (from his last three starts) at Listed level, First Accused (Turffontein) went one better in the race in which he ran second last year - turning the tables on this year's fourth placegetter The Inevitable (Dundeel {NZ}).
Bred by Mandy Gunn, he was sold by her Motree Thoroughbreds to Andrew Scanlon for $16,000 at the 2019 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale.
One of the eight stakes winners for his Motree-based, dual Group 1-winning sire who turned 19 this year, First Accused is one of the four winners produced by the imported four-times stakes placed, three-time winner Keep On Talking (USA) (Royal Academy {USA}).
Also dam of the metropolitan winner Gibberer (Rahy {USA}), Keep On Talking foaled a full sister to First Accused last year. She is a daughter of the G3 Arundel S. winner Gin Talking (USA) (Allen's Prospect {USA}) whose G3 Cicada S.-winning daughter Dixie Talking (USA) (Dixieland Band {USA}) produced the stakes winners Done Talking (USA) (Broken Vow {USA}) and Dixie Twist (USA) (Indian Charlie {USA}).
First Accused boasts a 6 X 3 cross of Crimson Saint (USA) (Crimson Satan {USA}) who appears via her grandson Storm Cat (USA) and Royal Academy (USA).
