Improving smartly on a fair debut, the one-eyed Australian-bred Traces got the Sun Met day feature programme off to a great start when he bounded home to shed his maiden ticket in the R150 000 Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes.
Brett Crawford – nice start
Well backed on debut, the well-bred son of Snitzel showed the benefit of the one run under the belt when he stormed down the centre under Greg Cheyne.
As one-eyed horses are not allowed to race in Australia, his breeders Arrowfield race the smart looking bay here in partnership with Ridgemont Racing, and having learnt from his experience first time up when all of his opponents were down his blind side, Greg Cheyne rode a cracker and produced him at the right moment.
After speedy Glen Kotzen-trained debutante Princess Elsa led the charge, Traces took command at the 200m, and went on to hold the promising PE debut winning filly Carlita, who grabbed a pleasing second cheque for trainer Alan Greeff.
Traces recorded 59,39 secs for the 1000m in the South Easter and won by 2,25 lengths.
Pomodoro’s son Royal Italian showed his debut run was no fluke and stayed on well for third.
Greg Cheyne – rode the winner
The winner is by Arrowfield Stud’s record-breaking sire Snitzel, a son of Redoute’s Choice, who equalled Danehill’s seasonal record of 26 Australian stakes winners in 2016/17, as well as setting a new high mark for earnings and two-year-old winners, with A$16.2 million in prize-money banked, with 35 juvenile winners.
Trace’s dam Traceability is an Australian-bred daughter of Charge Forward and a half-sister to 2002 Gr1 winner Premier’s Champion Stakes winner, Suntagonal.
He has now won once from 2 starts for stakes of R93 750.
