Progressive Wanted gelding Leicester was a good last start fourth in the Listed SAJC Port Adelaide Guineas and upped the ante for this 2035 metre assignment for which he started favourite.
Leicester enjoyed a good run in transit for Damian Lane and held off the fast
finish of runner-up High 'n' Dry to win by three-quarters of a length.Leicester has the overall record of three wins and two placings from eight starts and has won nearly $150,000 for his owners who include bloodstock agent Paul Willetts, who bought him for a bargain $10,000 from the Yarraman Park draft at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale in 2015.
Leicester will seek to give Darren Weir a hat-trick in the Group I SAJC Derby as he has won it for the past two years with Howard Be Thy Name and Volatile Mix.
Leicester is the first foal of Defy the Odds (GB), a placed half-sister by Galileo to Group III winner Index Linked.
Defy the Odds has since produced consecutive fillies for Yarraman Park by I Am Invincible that have sold for $170,000 in 2017 and $300,000 in 2018.
Leicester is the third stakes-winner for Fastnet Rock's Group I winning son Wanted, who now stands in Queensland at Clear Mountain Fairview.
He is interestingly bred on the white hot Fastnet Rock x Galileo cross that runs at an astonishing 18% stakes-winners to runners!
