Juvenile Trial Watch – Canterbury

Tara Madgwick - Friday May 5

There was a busy set of 15 trials at Canterbury on Friday morning and seven were for juveniles with a couple of eye-catching heat winners by Pierro and Zoustar.

A full sister to Group II winning filly Paris Dior, the Peter and Paul Snowden trained Queen of Dragons bumped into stiff opposition in her first two runs earlier this year. She finished fourth on debut behind Red Resistance and Steel City at Rosehill before bumping into Militarize in a Canterbury maiden to run second.

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First trial back today and she let down nicely to catch the runaway leader to win on the line.

The Bjorn Baker trained Zoustar colt Ozzmosis couldn’t have been more impressive. He jumped from the outside gate and was restrained against his better judgement by Rachel King and when allowed to go forward and work around the field rounded them up easily and won running away.

He won his only previous trial back in September and has had plenty of time since then, but this was encouraging.

Ozzmosis was a $250,000 Magic Millions purchase for Darby Racing from the Sledmere Stud draft and was bred by China Horse Club. He is the second foal of Group III winning Darci Brahma mare who comes from the family of Group II winners Hips Don’t Lie, Splintex and this season’s dominant two year-old filly Learning to Fly.

His weanling half-brother by Wootton Bassett (GB) will be offered by The Chase as Lot 307 at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale.

Additional heat winners were: Chassagne (Dundeel), Up to Mischief (Written Tycoon), Up the Country (Sooboog), Canadian Ruler (Vancouver) and Joey D’Or (Pariah).

Click here for trial results at Breednet with Sale Mail and at Racing NSW with video.

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