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 exciting runners are set to hit the track throughout Australia on Wednesday, including a Deep Field filly that has looked smart at the trials making her debut at Eagle Farm. Also Canterbury Park is the venue for the debut of an expensive I Am Invincible filly and a Hellbent gelding that is out of a group-winning Galileo (Ire) mare.
Eagle Farm, Race 1, 11.58am, AEST, Racecourse Village Mdn P., $40,000, 1000m
Deep Vegas, 3-year-old filly (Deep Field x Hidden Talent {I Am Invincible})
Eagle Farm’s Wednesday meeting will serve as the venue for the debut for Deep Vegas, a well-bred daughter of Deep Field from the Tony Gollan stable at Eagle Farm. In preparation for this debut Deep Vegas most recently won a trial at Doomben in very impressive fashion by 5 lengths over 1000 metres on June 4 defeating his well-bred stablemate Big Demeanor (I Am Invincible),
Deep Vegas is out of the unraced mare Hidden Talent (I Am Invincible), who is a half-sister to the smart juvenile Madeenaty (Exceed And Excel) who won twice including the Listed Wyong Magic Millions 2YO C., and the Listed Maribyrnong Trial S.
Deep Vegas as a yearling | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Hidden Talent’s dam Set For Fame (Reset) was a very smart mare winning five times, these included the G2 Dane Ripper S., G2 Caulfield Sprint H., G2 Angus Armanasco S., and the Listed Kevin Hayes S.
Hidden Talent’s further progeny since producing Deep Vegas includes a two-year-old filly named Madame Fiocca (Microphone) who has already been placed twice on the track from her only two starts, a yearling colt by King’s Legacy, a weanling colt by Pinatubo (Ire) and last spring she was left empty.
Deep Vegas was a $300,000 purchase by Gollan Racing/John Foote Bloodstock (FBAA) from the draft of Segenhoe Stud at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Canterbury Park, Race 1, 12.50pm, AEST, Dundeel @ Arrowfield Stud H., $60,000, 1200m
Socrazyinlove, 2-year-old filly (I Am Invincible x Special Lover (NZ) {Pins})
The Annabel Neasham-trained royally-bred I Am Invincible filly Socrazyinlove will debut at Canterbury Park on Wednesday over 1200 metres after running third at her latest trial at Rosehill on June 11 over 900 metres behind Written Scandal (Written Tycoon).
Her dam Special Lover (NZ) (Pins) was a stakes-placed filly on the track in the Listed Hill Smith S., As a broodmare she has made a super start, she has left two individual winners including Miss Roseiano (Exceed And Excel) who was the winner of the G3 Blue Diamond Preview Fillies and recently sold to Tom Magnier for $1,275,000 at the 2023 Inglis Digital Online July Sale. She has then since been served by Coolmore Stud’s Justify (USA). Her second winner is Easy Single (Not A Single Doubt) who has been a very handy metropolitan sprinter winning five times in Melbourne and Sydney.
Socrazyinlove as a yearling | Image courtesy of Inglis
A descendant of - the famed matriarch Eight Carat (GB) (Pieces Of Eight {Ire}) - Socrazyinlove comes from an outstanding family. Other successful group-performers within her pedigree are Don Eduardo (NZ), Tristalove (NZ) (Sir Tristram {Ire}), Viscount, Shower Of Roses (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}), Viking Ruler (Danehill {USA}), Kempinsky (Danehill) and Gift Of Power (Power {GB}).
Special Lover since producing Socrazyinlove has left an I Am Invincible weanling filly and was most recently served by Toronado (Ire) last spring.
Socrazyinlove was a $1,100,000 purchase by TFI from the draft of Noorilim Park at the 2023 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale
Canterbury Park, Race 2, 1.25pm, AEST, Drinkwise P., $100,000, 1200m
Beauty Edge, 3-year-old gelding (Hellbent x Saint Minerva (Galileo {Ire})
The well-bred Beauty Edge, is set to make his debut over 1200 metres for Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith at Canterbury Park on Wednesday. In preparation he has trialled five times and run consistently in all of them.
This promising gelding is by Yarraman Park Stud’s progressive stallion in Hellbent, who has had an outstanding season leaving the Group 1 winners Benedetta and Magic Time.
Beauty Edge is the eighth foal from Saint Minerva (Galileo {Ire}). She was a smart mare on the track winning three-times from 1200 metres to 2200 metres including the G3 Grand Prix S.
Beauty Edge as a yearling | Image courtesy of Inglis
She has made a mark as a broodmare leaving six foals to race, and they have all been winners. Included in this bunch are the sharp sprinter Nettuno (I Am Invincible) who won the G3 Ken Russell Memorial C., as well as placing in the G3 San Domenico S., and the Listed Falvelon H., Cheerful Days (Smart Missile) was a seven-time winner and Group placed in Hong Kong and her other winners are Cormac (All Too Hard), Ducale (I Am Invincible), Mustarrid (Hinchinbrook) and Cosmic Minerva (Deep Field).
Within this pedigree there is a nice mix of pedigree influences. Significant stallions that feature within the page are Invincible Spirit (Ire), Volksraad (GB), Sadler’s Wells (USA), Last Tycoon (Ire), Zamazaan (Fr), Mill Reef (USA) and Miswaki (USA).
Beauty Edge was a $210,000 purchase by Dullingham Party Ltd from the Yarraman Park Stud draft at the 2022 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale
Looking Back
Jazzclub (NZ) (Ardrossan) was very impressive, he looks to have promising future ahead of him. Alabama Blitz (Alabama Express) settled well back in the same race and made some ground late to finish eighth.
Zaphod (Ire) (Zarak {Fr}) won like a nice horse at Scone, his form in Ireland suggested that he would be much superior to this opposition and so it proved, he could be a progressive stayer next season.
