Chalk two up for a couple of Queensland stalwarts as Top Echelon joined Easy Rocking on the leader board for two-year-old winners.
Bedaub, a half-sister to Hinged, won the first race for the babies in the Pat O'Shea Plate at Toowoomba on September 26. Bedaub is one of five live foals from the 19th and penultimate crop of Wattle Brae Stud stalwart Easy Rocking.
At Eagle Farm on Saturday, the Les Ross-trained Mishani Renegade charged home to win the first metropolitan race for the two-year-olds in Brisbane.
The gelded son of Top Echelon comes from the 17th crop of 29 foals by Oakwood Stud's much-loved son of Umatilla.
One of four 'Mishani' horses in the race, Mishani Renegade defeated the heavily backed She's A Rogue (Nicconi) by a half-neck.
Supporters of the favourite were on good terms with themselves at the 100m before James Orman unleashed on Mishani Renegade.
Felix The Scat, a first crop son of Mendelssohn (USA), was a further two and three-quarter lengths back in third.
Reported as sold for $12,000 from the KBL Thoroughbreds draft at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale, Mishani Renegade races for her breeder, Mike Crooks' Mishani Enterprises.
He is the fifth winner from as many foals from the Flying Spur mare Monicelli whose dam Donatella (IRE) (Sadler's Wells) is a sister to Group 1 Ascot Fillies Mile runner-up Dance to The Top.
Monicelli has a yearling filly by The Mission and was covered by the Group 1 winning son of Choisir again last spring.
The sire of cult favourite Our Boy Malachi and Group 1 Stradbroke Hcp winner River Lad, Top Echelon, lines up for his 20th book of mares this spring, having covered 16 in 2021.
