Wooloowin’s rise through the ranks for Newcastle horseman Nathan Doyle continued in Saturday’s Magic Millions Rising Stars 3YO & 4YO Class 4 Plate for fillies and mares at the Sunshine Coast.
A powerful performance from Wooloowin (Pic – Magic Millions)
The daughter of Capitalist advanced her record to four wins from only seven starts with a dominant two-and-a-half length victory in the lucrative A$250,000 contest, comfortably defeating Bjorn Baker’s Infatuation and Ciaron Maher’s Until Valhalla.
Doyle, who paid A$80,000 for the daughter of Capitalist out of the Kingstar Farm draft at 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, said the victory was reward for the patience of the mare’s connections.
“She was very dominant,” Doyle said. “Me and Jason Collett had a plan about what we wanted to do in the gates to get her to step better and she did step better so she didn’t have to do too much work. It was a perfect ride and it was a pretty easy watch from the top of the straight.
“She had 12 months off the scene because she had a knee issue and then we had her ready to go and there were plenty of wet tracks in the middle of the year but I didn’t want to push the button so I said to the owners that I wanted to tip her out again.
“They showed patience and they’ve been rewarded. She’s still only lightly raced, she’s only a four-year-old and I think she’s got many more wins to come.”
The colts and geldings division of the Magic Millions Rising Stars 3YO & 4YO Class 4 Plate was won by Stuart Kendrick’s blueblood Snitzel gelding Redford, who upstaged odds-on favourite Moravia.
Moravia was given a textbook ride by Blake Shinn and shot clear halfway up the Sunshine Coast straight but Redford continued to find under the urgings of jockey Kyle Wilson-Taylor and claimed the lead inside the final 50m of the race.
Like Wooloowin, Redford is building an impressive record in the early stages of his racing career with Saturday’s win in the A$250,000 contest taking his CV to five wins from seven starts and more than A$250,000 in prizemoney.
Redford was purchased by TFI for A$1.05 million when offered as part of the Arrowfield Stud draft at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Arrowfield will offer the full-brother to Redford, who hails from the same family as Not A Single Doubt and King’s Legacy, as Lot 335 at next week’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
