Profiteer will be given a chance to emulate his sire Capitalist in the Golden Slipper after he blew away the field in Saturday’s $2million Inglis Millennium (RL) at Randwick.
Leading at every call under Hugh Bowman, the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained colt went to the line untouched in defeating the Hinchinbrook colt Baranof by five and a quarter lengths with the Star Turn colt Pegasi a head back in third.
Profiteer went off an odds-on favourite following his hugely impressive win at Flemington in December.
Shortly after Newgate Farm purchased an interest in Profiteer and that is looking an inspired decision.
Price said he might keep the Capitalist colt in Sydney and miss the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield in a fortnight.
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uo;He’s just got to win a Slipper, doesn’t he?” Price said.
“I think it would be very difficult for what we’ve done with him to take him back to Melbourne for the Blue Diamond. That’s in two weeks, and then four weeks to the Slipper.
“He was set for today. It is worth $2 million, how can you not. But I do have a bit of a concern in the back of my head that to take him back to Melbourne and then back here, how much horse are you using?
“So you have to pick between the two races, and if I had to pick, I’d be picking the Slipper.”
Profiteer was a $165,000 purchase by Roll The Dice Racing Pty Ltd / Rogers Bloodstock out of the Newgate Farn draft at the 2020 Classic Yearling Sale.
He is the first foal of the well-performed Snitzel mare Athena Lass, a Moonee Valley 2yo winner when on debut and placed in the Group III Quezette Stakes at Caulfield.
A half-sister to the Listed VRC Gibson Carmichael Stakes winner Euryale (Lonhro), Athena Lass is out of the Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) mare Meduesa, a daughter of the Group 1 Flight Stakes and Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Danglissa (Danzero).
Profiteer becomes the first black-type winner for Capitalist.
The highly popular Newagte Farm stallion has edged past Shalaa (IRE) in the race for Leading 2yo sire and Leading First Crop stallion.
