Juvenile Trial Watch – Randwick

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday March 21

There was some class in action at the Randwick trials on Tuesday morning with European superstar mare Alcohol Free winning her heat, plus trial wins for Passive Aggressive and Aft Cabin, while on the two year-old front three heat winners all held interest.

A couple of stakes-winners went around in the 1045m heat with Saltaire edging clear of Godfather and both looked pretty comfortable and should be well placed in short course autumn stakes races now the mad scramble to get into the Slipper is over.

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Interesting runner was Not a Single Doubt colt Café Millenium, who won super well on debut then got run off his feet when a respectable last of five in the G2 Todman Stakes won by Cylinder. He made Tom Marquand do some work to get him focused, but was warming up late and the longer stakes races coming up should be right up his alley.

Starlight Girl was set alight by Rachel King in her heat and the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Zoustar filly broke 33 for her last 600m when scoring by three lengths over another Zoustar filly from the same stable in Zouphoria.

It was her second trial following a forgettable polytrack outing last October when she finished at the tail after jumping from a wide gate and being taken back, only to be covered by kickback which made her a very unhappy Jan. This time she mustered speed brilliantly to take the lead and clicked along up the running was far too good.

A $180,000 Magic Millions purchase from Widden Stud for PR Funds, Starlight Girl is a three-quarter sister-in-blood to Zoustar’s brilliant sprinter Zoustyle, while runner-up Zouphoria came out of the same draft but sold for $750,000 to Laurel Oak Bloodstock and is from stakes-winner Vezalay.

The Michael Freedman trained Snitzel colt Moravia was having his second trial, but first this year and did a nice job travelling deep all the way and hitting the line well to win by a neck.

An $800,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Edinburgh Park draft, Moravia is the first foal of stakes-winner Our Crown Mistress.

Another Snitzel colt in the trial, Light Infantry showed good pace at his first trial before tiring late and is a sibling to G1 winners Red Tracer and Shellscrape from blue hen Kisma. He’s trained by Mark Newnham, who heads to Hong Kong this year, so there will be plenty of trainers keen to take over this homebred for Geoff and Mary Grimish.

Click here to see all the trials with Sale Mail at Breednet at Racing NSW with video.

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