Another Remarkable Day for Rothesay
The amazing late season rally by Glenlogan Park’s first season stallion Rothesay continued on at Doomben, Morphettville and the Gold Coast on Saturday.Getting the ball rolling was the David Murphy-trained Shotacross The Bow who scored in the Past President's Two Year Old (1640m) to make it three wins from his past four starts.
Given a positive ride by Brad Stewart, Shotacross The Bow took up the lead and was never seriously threatened in defeating Wicked Snippets by one and a half lengths with Honesta three-quarters of a length away in third.
A winner at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast, Shotacross The Bow had a taste against stakes company when unplaced behind the promising Gai Waterhouse-trained Harlem River in the Listed Tattersalls Stakes at the Gold Coast on June 20.
Murphy believes the son of Rothesay can stretch out to the classic distance as a 3-year-old.
"He is a Magic Millions horse and I could bring him back for the Guineas at that carnival in January. I also think he might make a Queensland Derby horse in the winter next year," Murphy told AAP.
A $60,000 purchase by his trainer from the Glenlogan Park draft at the 2014 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling sale, Shotacross The Bow is a half-sister to two good winner in the stakes-placed Upshot (Stratum) and the 5-time winner Imagery (More Than Ready.
Her dam, the unraced Mossman mare Reshhot, is a three-quarter sister to Listed winner Snapshots (Success Express) and Express A Smile (Success Express) the dam of triple Group 1 winner Sea Siren (Fastnet Rock) and the Group II winner Lady Dehere (Dehere).
Shortly after Shotacross the Bow continued on his winning way, the Tony McEvoy-trained Jacksay did likewise with a narrow win in the Hughes Chauffeured Limos Hcp (1400m) at Morphettville Park.
The 2-year-old gelding had broken his maiden just seven days ago at Gawler.
Another Glenlogan Park graduate from the same sale that produced Shotacross The Bow, Jacksay came at double the cost, $120,000, to the bid of McEvoy Mitchell Racing.
He is a half-brother to three winners including the Listed winner and Group 1 placed Upilio (Lion Hunter) and the stakes-placed Safe Sanctuary (Iglesia).
Rothesay’s day just was made even better when the John Morrisey-trained Honey Ko broke her maiden at her third start over 900 metres at the Gold Coast.
Giving Glenlogan Park graduates a winning treble, Honey Ko failed to make her modest $20,000 reserve at the Magic Millions March Yearling sale.
With 12 individual 2-year-old winners to date, Rothesay (pictured) heads into the final few weeks of the season as the leading First Season sire for number of winners.
Footnote: Rothesay also posted a new winner at Blackall in Queensland with a victory for Jaguar Edition.
