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 early in its career chasing maiden success, a promising galloper returning to the track or a horse which has trialled particularly well, we’ll aim to give you something to follow.
Two exciting runners are set to hit the track on Tuesday. They will be two Blue Point (Ire) two-year-old's going head to head at Warrnambool over 1000 metres.
Warrnambool, Race 5, 1.45pm AEST, Callaghan Motors VOBIS Gold Strike, $125,000, 1000m
La Vie En, 2-year-old filly (Blue Point {Ire} x Bleu Roche {Fastnet Rock})
The Warrnambool-based trainer Lindsey Smith will prepare the well-bred filly La Vie En to debut on her home track over 1000 metres.
La Vie En is by Darley Stud’s promising shuttling stallion Blue Point (Ire) out of the Fastnet Rock mare Bleu Roche, she was a good mare winning two races including the G3 Red Roses S., and she also placed fourth in the G3 Red Anchor S.
Bleu Roche has already tasted some success at stud leaving the winner Miss Roumbini (Zoustar), she also ran fourth in the Listed Twilight Glow S., and cost $550,000 at the 2022 Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale.
La Vie En as a yearling | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Other successful stakes winners in the family include La Vie En’s dam Esprit De Bleu (USA) (Littleexpectations {USA}) and her grandam Bleu’s Apparition (USA) (Silver Ghost {USA}).
La Vie En was a $360,000 purchase by Spicer Thoroughbreds from the draft of Yulong at the 2022 Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale.
Since producing La Vie En, Bleu Roche has a yearling colt by Written Tycoon and was most recently served by the exciting young sire Alabama Express.
Warrnambool, Race 5, 1.45pm AEST, Callaghan Motors VOBIS Gold Strike, $125,000, 1000m
Kazza Joy, 2-year-old filly (Blue Point {Ire} x Khalama {Starspangledbanner})
The Mitchell Freedman-trained Kazza Joy will travel to Warrnambool on Tuesday to make her debut over 1000 metres after running a quiet fourth at the Bendigo trials on 23 April in preparation for this assignment.
This sprinting-bred filly is by Blue Point (Ire) and is the third foal from the Starspangledbanner mare Khalama, who was an six-time winner from 1000 metres to 1050 metres in Brisbane and New Zealand.
Kazza Joy as a yearling | Image courtesy of Inglis
The family page is a little quiet up close in regards to stakes horses but back a bit further it is full of class, horses that feature are the group winners I Am Me (I Am Invincible), One Last Dance (Encosta De Lago), One World (Danehill {USA}), Langoustine (Danehill), and the influential stallions Royal Academy (USA) and Storm Cat (USA)
Since producing Kazza Joy, Khalama has produced a yearling filly by Toronado (Ire), a weanling filly by Written Tycoon and was most recently served by Widden Stud Victoria’s Russian Camelot (Ire) in the spring.
Looking Back:
Our selections on Sunday ran the quinella at Ballarat. Signor Bill (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) was very impressive winning with authority, Bancory Bay (Fastnet Rock) ran a great race on debut placing second. A win won't be far away for this well bred gelding.
