Sun Stud is one of Victoria’s leading stallion farms. Earlier this year they were active as vendors and buyers at Melbourne’s Inglis Premier yearling sale. One of their purchases was for $520,000 from Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm. Sun placed the colt in trainer Gearld Ryan’s care and named him LEGEND OF CONDOR (2c Not A Single Doubt x Rhodamine by Success Express).
Only a handful of 2yo races have been run in Australia this season but Gerald was confident that Legend Of Condor had shown him enough promise to commence an early racing career. Gerald opted to debut the colt at Randwick yesterday in the $100,000 Victory Vein Stakes. With Josh Par on board Legend Of Condor led all the way to win, managing to hold out the late closers Spin and Stunts. Both Gerald and Josh were full of praise for the young colt after the tenacious victory.
Race Replay: LEGEND OF CONDOR 15 Oct 17 R2 Randwick
Darren Weir trained PLATINUM ANGEL (3f Snitzel x Rapidement by Iglesia) was an impressive winner at Mornington last Tuesday. Settling toward the back, Damien Oliver urged the grey filly through the field and she was strong to the line.
Platinum Angel was a $180,000 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling purchase by Brad Spicer.
Race Replay: PLATINUM ANGEL 10 Oct 17 R3 Mornington
In the same draft Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds purchased EPTIMUM (3g Snitzel x Paramount by Monashee Mountain) for $200,000. Toby decided to bring Eptimum to Victoria as a travelling companion for his star filly Houtzen. The Super VOBIS bonuses on offer were an added incentive to bring the gelding South.
Eptimum won at his first Victorian start at Ballarat and made it back to back wins last Wednesday at Bendigo in a benchmark 70 for 3yos. Although still a little green, both wins showed that Eptimum may be in for a bright future. Ryan Maloney rode on both occasions.
Race Replay: EPTIMUM 11 Oct 17 R5 Bendigo
Lisa Whittle’s IRON LOTUS (3f Turffontein x Blazing Glory by Bianconi) was an impressive 2yo winning two from three starts in Alice Springs, including the feature Inglis Red Centre 2YO Classic. She kicked off her 3yo career yesterday impressively winning by nearly two lengths.
Race Replay: IRON LOTUS 15 Oct 17 R2 Alice Springs
