Given a peach of a ride by Tommy Berry, Equation rang up a first stakes win for his trainer Annabel Neasham and sire Press Statement in Monday’s Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m).
It was the fourth consecutive win for Equation, whose only defeat came at his career debut at Randwick.
The son of Press Statement defeated the Savabeel gelding High Supremacy by three-quarters of a length with a half-head back to the fast-finishing Kermadec gelding Kermanding in third.
Annabel Neasham came close to breaking her stakes duck at the highest level on Saturday with the luckless Mo'Unga in the Randwick Guineas.
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Mo'Unga, Equation sports the silks of Aquis Farm.
“It’s not quite the Randwick Guineas, but it felt like it with all the owners we have got here, a couple of them up from Melbourne and a few from Sydney,” Neasham said.
“He is a lovely horse. We have quite a big opinion of him. He has obviously done nothing wrong in his last four starts and he has got bigger and better things in store.”
Purchased by Aquis Farm for $110,000 from the Sledmere Stud draft at the 2018 National Weanling Sale, Equation is the second foal and first to race out of the stakes-placed Onemorenomore mare Purcentage.
Equation a $110,000 Magic Millions National weanling
A half-sister to stakes-placed Spurrendous (Shamardal), Purcentage is out of the Listed AJC Gimcrack Stakes winner and Group 1 MRC Thousand Guineas third Spurcent.
Purcentage has a yearling filly by Russian Revolution, purchased by Triple Crown Syndications for $195,000 out of the Sledmere draft at the Gold Coast earlier this year.
After foaling a Russian Revolution colt last spring, Purcentage was covered by Cosmic Force.
Bred by China Horse Club, Equation becomes the first stakes-winner for Vinery Studs Press Statement who covered 95 mares at a fee of $13750.
Press Statement (image Mark Smith)
