Trials this morning at Rosehill were run on a heavy 9 so horses were well held together and not asked for too much, but there were still a couple of intriguing unraced heat winners by Extreme Choice and Justify (USA), plus we got another look at the $1.4million Wootton Bassett (GB) colt from Sunlight.
Quickest of the heat winners was the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Justify (USA) gelding Just Legendary, who was having his second trial this preparation and second win after one pretty average trial back in January.
From a half-sister to Western Australian stakes winner Darlington Abbey, he was a $900,000 buy for China Horse Club / Newgate / Go Bloodstock / Trilogy from Sledmere Stud at Inglis Easter.
Not every colt bought by the stallion syndicates can deliver on the dream, but gelding looks like it might be to this guy’s advantage.
Gelding would be a very painful decision if it came up for Central Coast, the Chris Waller trained Wootton Basset colt from Sunlight. He was having his second trial here with Tommy Berry on board and again ran well to finish second behind the speedy Albany Road.
Trained by Waterhouse / Bott, Albany Road led them up on debut at Randwick in December, but faded to finish a well beaten eighth to Pallaton, however he does look to have come back a stronger horse and has won both of his trials this prep.
A well bred colt by Exceed and Excel, Albany Road runs for Suman Hedge, Rosemont Stud and partners and is a sibling to a pair of Group winning fillies in Flyer and Treasurway.
Darby Racing have a happy knack for finding a value filly at Inglis Classic and might have got lucky with this modestly priced $70,000 Extreme Choice filly Extrio, who is now two for two at the trials. Trained by Bjorn Baker and ridden by Rachel King, she looked very professional scoring by a length and a half.
Bred by SF Bloodstock at Newgate, Extrio is from US stakes-winning import Triple Chelsea (USA), whose next two dams are French stakes-winners up to a mile, so there is some class and diversity to the pedigree.
Additional heats winners were Cosmic Eagle (Deep Field) and Gambler (Capitalist).
Click here for all the trial results at Breednet with Sale Mail and at Racing NSW with video.
