Hellbent has been churning out the winners this season and produced a two state metro juvenile double on Saturday with Sunrays going two for two at Doomben, while at Ascot Monte Tremezzo made a winning debut.
Trained by Kelly Schweida and ridden by Cejay Graham, Sunrays was sent out favourite and was able to reproduce her previous form to score a length win in the 1110m scamper.
A beautiful filly, she let down with a good finish and was doing her best work on the line.
“She’s improving all the time and is one of the nicest fillies I’ve had anything to do with,” said stable representative Jodie Schweida.
“She’s a good eater and just a very easy filly.”
Not offered at auction, Sunrays was retained to race by her breeder Peter Moran and comes from a family that has enjoyed much success racing in his green and white colours.
She is the first living foal of Hiccups, an unraced Fastnet Rock grand-daughter of Moran’s million dollar earning multiple Group II winner Staging, who was by Success Express (USA), a stallion that spent a portion of his long and many storied stud career at the former Moran owned Noble Park Stud in Queensland.
Not only an elite racemare, Staging was a remarkable producer leaving Group I winners Excites and Duporth as well as Group II winner Tickets and she was also the grand-dam of Champion South African 2YO Colt and dual Group I winning sprinter Delago Deluxe.
Hellbent later made it a metro double when the Dan Morton trained filly Monte Tremezzo kicked off her career with a surprise first up win beating the red hot favourite Storm Away.
She threaded her way through the field and dived between runners to score a long neck win.
Monte Tremezzo was a $50,000 Magic Millions Perth purchase for her trainer from the draft of Ridgeport Holdings and is the fourth winner from four foals to race from Tremezzina, a metro winning half-sister by Not a Single Doubt to stakes-winner Testamezzo.
Hellbent has sired four juvenile winners this season from 10 starters headed by stakes-winner Tremonti.
