Three year-old colt High Torque was not beaten far in his first two starts and
when stepped up to 1600 metres for this all age maiden steamed home to win by
three-quarters of a length.Trained at Pakenham by Dean Grass, High Torque was a $20,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the Yulong Park draft for Gippsland Bloodstock and then passed in when offered at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale.
He is the fourth winner from four foals to race from Moussaieff, a half-sister
by Encosta de Lago to Group I winner Red Dazzler.
High Torque has plenty of
pedigree as his next two dams are by champion sires Danehill and Vain, while
his fourth dam is none other than champion filly Toltrice, the darling of the
1972 Melbopurne Spring Carnival when she won the Thousand Guineas, Wakeful
Stakes and VRC Oaks.
