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.
Three exciting runners are set to hit the track across Australia on Wednesday, including Zoustar and Trapeze Artist 2-year-old colts taking on each other on debut at Warwick Farm and a well-bred Capitalist 3-year-old debuting at Doomben.
Warwick Farm, Race 1, 1.45pm AEDT, TAB H., $60,000, 1100m
Johnny The Kid, 2-year-old colt (Trapeze Artist x I Got Chills {General Nediym})
The Randwick-based trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will prepare the well-bred colt Johnny The Kid to make his debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday after running a tidy third at the trials on February 22 at Randwick over 737 metres.
Johnny The Kid is by Trapeze Artist out of the General Nediym mare I Got Chills, she was very quick on the track and managed to win two Listed races as a juvenile including the Maribyrnong Plate and the St Albans S.
Johnny The Kid as a yearling | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
I Got Chills has had good success as a broodmare and has left seven winners from seven to race including the eight-time winner The Yowie (Redoute’s Choice), I Got Chills is also a half-sister to stakes-placed Natch (Naturalism {NZ})
Since producing Johnny The Kid, I Got Chills has weanling and foal colts also by Widden Stud's Trapeze Artist.
Warwick Farm, Race 1, 1.45pm AEDT, TAB H., $60,000, 1100m
Bengal, 2-year-old colt (Zoustar x Mumbai Rock {Fastnet Rock})
Warwick Farm will serve as the starting point for the career of Bengal, a well-bred son of Zoustar from the Chris Waller stable. Bengal is out of the Fastnet Rock mare, Mumbai Rock.
She was a winner at two and since then has made a great name for herself as a top-quality proven broodmare. She has had five foals to race and all have been winners, including Group winners Mumbai Rose (Zoustar) and Jazz Etude (I Am Invincible) and stakes-placed fillies Mumbai Jewel (I Am Invincible) and Splendoronthegrass (So You Think {NZ}).
Zoustar | Standing at Widden
Bengal’s second dam is the Storm Boot (USA) mare Mani Bhavani (USA), she was a star on the track and won the G1 Saratoga Spinaway S., as a broodmare she ended up leaving four winners with the best of them being Petrelle, a stakes-placed daughter of Fastnet Rock.
Mumbai Rock since producing Bengal has an I Am Invincible yearling half-sister, a Home Affairs weanling half-brother and was again served by Australia's Champion Sire I Am Invincible last spring.
Bengal was a $250,000 purchase by China Horse Club/Newgate/Go Bloodstock/Trilogy from the draft of Morning Rise Stud at the 2023 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
Doomben, Race 4, 3.13pm AEDT (2.13pm local), Opera QLD Regional Tour at EF QTIS 3YO (C&G) Plate, $40,000, 1200m
Adranos, 3-year-old gelding (Capitalist x Sicile {Fr} {Anabaa {USA}})
The Tony Gollan-trained Adranos will travel to Doomben on Wednesday to make his debut over 1200 metres after running a promising second in a trial at Doomben on February 13.
This Capitalist gelding is the eighth and final foal from the Anabaa (USA) mare Sicile (Fr), who was placed on the track in France. Sicile has produced four winners with the best of them being Tiamo Grace (Monaco Consul {NZ}) who was the winner of the G2 Wakeful S.
Adranos as a yearling | Image courtesy of Inglis
Further back in the family is the very talented mare I Am A Star (NZ) (I Am Invincible) she won 10 races in total including the G1 Myer Classic and five other Group 2 races.
She has since left an $800,000 yearling in Orion The Hunter (Deep Field) who has been successful on the track and metropolitan placed. Adranos was a $100,000 purchase by Flying Start Syndications/Pinhook Bloodstock (FBAA) from the draft of Kingstar Farm at the 2022 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
Looking Back
Our selections for Sunday fared okay with Bank Heist (GB) (Cracksman {GB}) finishing second at Kembla Grange. Oceans Quiet (Lonhro) ran third at Kembla Grange and Tamahine (Impending) ran fifth.
