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.
Three runners are set to hit the Ballarat Synthetic track on Friday. We have a well-bred Written Tycoon two-year-old colt looking for success on debut. A Kingman (GB) filly having her second start and a Dundeel (NZ) filly that placed on debut and looks well placed to gain maiden success.
Sportsbet-Ballarat Synthetic, Race 1, 12.10pm, AEST, Global Turf 2YO Mdn P., $27,000, 1100m
Judicial, 2-year-old colt (Written Tycoon x Dirty {Hussonet} {USA})
The Pakenham-based trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman will prepare the well-bred colt Judicial to make his debut on the Ballarat Synthetic track on Friday after running a tidy second at the Traralgon trials on June 13 behind Versaille (Written By). She frnaked the form and was a very impressive winner on debut yesterday at Bendigo.
Judicial has a handy pedigree, he is by the super sire Written Tycoon out of the Hussonet (USA) mare Dirty. She was a handy filly on the track winning four times including the Listed Vo Rogue P.
Judicial | Image courtesy of Inglis
Dirty has been a very good and consistent broodmare, she has the great record of leaving seven-winners from seven horses to race. The best of these have been Happy Go Plucky (Pluck {USA}) who was a ten-time winner from 1150 metres to 2200 metres which included success in the Listed Ipswich Cup. Cabeza de Vaca (Northern Meteor) is also a solid performer and was first past-the-post seven times including also being Group placed in the G2 Villiers S.
Her other five winners include Wide Acclaim (Congrats {USA}), In All His Glory (All Too Hard), Strathcona (Vancouver), Ezeiza (Rubick) and Victory Chuckle (Sebring).
Judicial’s grandam Weaver Of Words (GB) (Danehill {USA}) was a winner at seven furlongs in Great Britain, but it has been as a broodmare that she has really flourished. She has left nine winners including two other Listed winners apart from Dirty, these are Etymology (New Approach {Ire}) and Whitlam (Elusive Quality {USA}). She has also left the stakes-placed gallopers Authoress (Fuji Kiseki {Jpn}) and Riddle Me This - Goodheart Success (HK) (Hussonet).
Judicial was a $260,000 purchase by Yu Long Investments from the draft of Vinery Stud at the 2023 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Sportsbet-Ballarat Synthetic, Race 3, 1.20pm, AEST, The Haymarket 3YO Mdn P., $27,000, 1400m
Regina Star, 3-year-old filly (Kingman (GB) x Pursuitofthestars (Ire) {Sea The Stars} {Ire})
Ballarat’s Synthetic Friday meeting will serve as the venue for the second start for the well-bred filly Regina Star. She trialled five times in preparation for her debut on June 4 at Bendigo where she disappointed over 1400 metres, with that experience under her belt she will be looking to show some improvement.
Regina Star is by Juddmonte Stud’s outstanding sire in Kingman (GB) and she has a strong pedigree with her page full of influential international stallions including Invincible Spirit (Ire), Zamindar (USA), Cape Cross (Ire), Groom Dancer (USA), Riverman (USA), Miswaki (USA) and The Minstrel (Can).
Regina Star | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Her dam Pursuitofthestars (Ire) was a winner at a mile and a quarter in Great Britain on the track and is very well-related. She is a half-sister to three Italian stakes-winners including Gimmy (Ire) (Lomitas {GB}), Stay Alive (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) and Being Alive (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}).
Since producing Regina Star, Pursuitofthestars has produced a So You Think (NZ) yearling filly, a Rebel Dane weanling filly and was most recently served last spring by the very exciting shuttling stallion Too Darn Hot (GB).
Regina Star was a $380,000 purchase by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott/Kestrel Thoroughbreds (FBAA) from the draft of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Sportsbet-Ballarat Synthetic, Race 4, 1.55pm, AEST, Pipe Pro Directional Drilling F&M Mdn P., $27,000, 1400m
Graceful, 3-year-old filly (Dundeel {NZ} x Kebede {Redoute’s Choice})
The well-related Graceful is set to make her second start over 1400m for Matt Cumani on the back of a very promising run on the same track on June 14 when running third over 1000 metres where she was running on very strongly at the finish. The step up to 1400 metres should suit this filly on her breeding.
Graceful is a daughter of Arrowfield Stud Farm’s Dundeel (NZ) and is the third foal from the Redoute’s Choice mare Kedebe. She was very talented on the track winning four-times from 1200 metres up to 2000 metres. Included in her wins were the G2 Doomben Roses S. At stud she has already left the winner Seductive (Shalaa {Ire}) and Cruziana (Dundeel) who was placed on the track before embarking on her broodmare career.
Graceful | Image courtesy of Inglis
Kebede is also a half-sister to Panzer Division, he was successful in the G3 Ming Dynasty H., before he retired to stud. Kebede’s dam is Desert Flight (Chi) (Hussonet {USA}) she was a Champion 2 year-old filly in Chile and was a dual Group 1 winner.
Graceful has an interesting pedigree pattern, she is bred on the exact same cross as the G1 Caulfield Guineas hero and now Waikato Stud Stallion Super Seth and the Listed winner Epimeles (Dundeel). The same extended cross has produced the G1 Doncaster Handicap winner in Celestial Legend (Dundeel) as he is out of daughter of Snitzel who himself is a son of his former Arrowfield Stud barnmate Redoute’s Choice.
Kedebe since producing Graceful has a two-year-old by Dundeel that has been exported to New Zealand and is so far unraced, a weanling colt by Castelvecchio and was again served by Castelvecchio last spring.
Looking Back:
Exothrill (Exosphere) was disappointing finishing eighth.
Brother Quickie (Shamus Award) was also disappointing finishing eleventh.
