One to Watch – Cranbourne

Tara Madgwick - Friday April 14

Currently leading the Australian first season sires list by earnings, Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) posted an impressive debut winner at Cranbourne on Friday.

Look at the size of that stride - Legacies wins on debut at Cranbourne - image Ross Holburt/ Racing Photos

Trained by Peter Moody, two year-old filly Legacies was well fancied in the 1200 juvenile fillies maiden and scored a dominant length and a quarter win.

She led for home and was strong all the way to the line to win decisively for Luke Nolen.

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uo;She’s a beautiful filly, really quite scopey and as she gets older and matures we will definitely see good improvement in her,” said stable representative Katherine Coleman.

“She’s trialled up well and educated really nicely so it’s great to her come to the races and handle the night so well.

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“We’ll see how she comes out of this race and reassess after that.”

A homebred for Rosemont Stud, Legacies is the fourth winner from Abysinnie (IRE), a blue-blood three-quarter sister by Danehill Dancer to multiple Group I winners Artiste Royale and Aquarelliste from an elite European family packed with Black Type.

Legacies is the third Australian winner for Justify, whose outstanding filly Learning to Fly won the Group II ATC Reisling Stakes and $2million Inglis Millennium before losing her rider in the Golden Slipper.

Coolmore shuttler Justify is the leading Australian first season sire by earnings.

The second crop of Justify yearlings have been popular at the sales this year with 10 averaging $369,000 at Magic Millions and a further 10 averaging $344,000 at Inglis Easter, so trainers are clearly happy with what they have seen so far and hold high hopes for their classic season to come.

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