Another Brilliant Juvenile Fastnet Rock Debut Winner

Tara Madgwick - Wednesday February 3

Emirates Park already have their homebred filly Enthaar as favourite for the Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond, but their homebred Fastnet Rock colt Hilal put himself into contention for the big autumn juvenile features when winning impressively on debut at Randwick on Wednesday.

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Are we looking at a vintage crop of 2YO's  from Fastnet Rock?

Champion sire Fastnet Rock has had a string of impressive two year-old winners this season and he certainly kept the ball rolling with the Team Hawkes trained Hilal.

The powerful bay colt was given two quiet trials behind classy colts Home Affairs and Profiteer with Tommy Berry retaining the ride on race day.

Sent out favourite, Hilal was allowed to find his feet from a wide gate and drifted back, before finding himself awkwardly place turning for home with no clear running.

While talented I Am Invincible colt King of Sparta sailed for home, it appeared the bird had flown, but when Tommy Berry finally got Hilal out and running he charged past the other colt to win the 1100m maiden by a long neck in an impressive display.
 



“He’s a lovely horse and has shown us a lot at home,” said co-trainer Michael Hawkes.

“Tommy just had to wait on him as he had no other option, so if he hadn’t won, he would have been a good thing beaten.”

Hawkes would not be drawn into making comparisons between Hilal and the stable’s other top class 2YO colt Remarque.

“Today is a starting point, who knows where he’ll end up!” Hawkes said.

Winning rider Tommy Berry was full of praise for Hilal.

“I loved his last 100m, he’s got a great attitude for a colt and he really wanted to find the line,” Berry said.
 



Hilal is a half-brother to South African stakes-winner Trojan Warrior and is the third winner from three to race from blue-blooded Encosta de Lago mare Salma, an unraced daughter of Group III winner Salameh, a half-sister to Emirates Park’s Group I winner and sire Al Maher.

This is the Show Dancing branch of the Dancing Show family, most famous for the Shantha’s Choice branch that has given us Group I winners such as Redoute’s Choice, Manhattan Rain and Shoals, who is by Hilal’s sire Fastnet Rock.

That looks like a stallion's pedigree!

Salma has a yearling filly by Fastnet Rock and had a filly foal last spring by Not a Single Doubt before being covered by Newgate Farm’s young sire Tassort, who stands in partnership with Emirates Park.

Tassort has been well supported by Emirates Park as he also covered Final Agreement last spring, the dam of Enthaar.

Hilal is the fifth two year-old winner for Fastnet Rock this season joining stakes-winners Acrobat and Sneaky Five along with metro winners O’President and Ranch Hand.

He has just two entries for Inglis Classic, both of them fillies – Lot 29 from Emirates Park, a filly from Northern Meteor mare Heredera and Lot 283 from Coolmore, the half-sister to stakes-winner Religify from Sacred Witness.


 

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Race Result - Tab Mdn Plate 1100m

Randwick-Kensington Track: Soft(7) Time: 1:04.64
1
Hilal
- 2c Fastnet Rock (AUS) x Salma (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: Tommy Berry 57
2
0.4
King Of Sparta
- 2c I Am Invincible (AUS) x Octavia (AUS) (Holy Roman Emperor (IRE))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: J Bowman 57
3
1.9
Divina
- 2f Astern (AUS) x Sakitto (AUS) (Domesday (AUS))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: S Clipperton 55
4
2.0
Syracuse
- 2f Sebring (AUS) x The Messina Nymph (AUS) (Commands (AUS))
Tnr: J A O'Shea Rdr: J B Mc Donald 55.5
5
2.3
Camplin
- 2f Medaglia D'Oro (USA) x Portillo (AUS) (Red Ransom (USA))
Tnr: James Cummings Rdr: Rachel King 55
6
2.5
Fox Fighter
- 2c Foxwedge (AUS) x Stage Beauty (AUS) (Desert Prince (IRE))
Tnr: David Payne Rdr: Jean Van Overmeire 55.5
7
4.1
Bundchen
- 2f I Am Invincible (AUS) x Yattarna (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: G Waterhouse & A Bott Rdr: Tim Clark 55
8
4.2
Glittery
- 2f Medaglia D'Oro (USA) x Dazzler (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: James Cummings Rdr: Ms K O'Hara 55
9
4.7
Single Honor
- 2c Not A Single Doubt (AUS) x Honor Net (NZ) (Hussonet (USA))
Tnr: R & M Freedman Rdr: J R Collett 57
10
7.7
Tympanist
- 2g Belardo (IRE) x Anaween (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: David Payne Rdr: J Parr 57
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