First Stakes Winner for Press Statement

Mark Smith - Monday March 8

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.

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“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)

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Race Result - Iron Jack Canberra Guineas LR 1400m

Canberra Track: Soft(6) Time: 1:23.03
1
Equation
- 3c Press Statement (AUS) x Purcentage (AUS) (Onemorenomore (AUS))
Tnr: Annabel Neasham Rdr: Tommy Berry 56
2
0.8
High Supremacy
- 3g Savabeel (AUS) x Lady Chaparral (NZ) (High Chaparral (IRE))
Tnr: R & M Freedman Rdr: N Rawiller 56
3
0.9
Kermanding
- 3g Kermadec (NZ) x Final Stretch (AUS) (Canny Lad (AUS))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: J B Mc Donald 56
4
2.8
Nicci's Fling
- 3f Nicconi (AUS) x Midnight Fling (AUS) (Danehill (USA))
Tnr: G Portelli Rdr: Ms K O'Hara 54
5
3.1
Black Duke
- 3g Fiorente (IRE) x Empress Eleven (AUS) (War Pass (USA))
Tnr: Richard Litt Rdr: Tom Sherry 56
6
6.4
Molly Nails
- 3f Tavistock (NZ) x Maritimo (NZ) (Pins (AUS))
Tnr: Matthew Dale Rdr: B Mc Dougall 54
7
8.4
Sweet Reply
- 3f Deep Field (AUS) x Miss Midas (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))
Tnr: R & M Freedman Rdr: Rachel King 54
8
9.0
Loca
- 3c Zoustar (AUS) x Shakeira (USA) (Freud (USA))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: J Ford 56
9
12.4
Bring It Bella
- 3f Sebring (AUS) x Bellissima Miss (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ))
Tnr: J M Cleary Rdr: Ellen Hennessy 54
10
16.7
Blue Glass
- 3f Glass Harmonium (IRE) x Amicable Agreement (AUS) (Elvstroem (AUS))
Tnr: Michael Gatty Rdr: Ms K Nisbet 54
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