The John Moore trained gelding was not among the more fancied runners, but
defied all challengers to win the 1000 metre sprint by a neck.Pre-race, the attention was on John Size's trio – emerging star D B Pin, top-rated Mr Stunning and last year's winner Amazing Kids– but they finished third, sixth and eighth respectively as Dashing Fellow caused an upset under homegrown rider Vincent Ho on a surface softened by rain throughout the card.
"Well, that was a bit of a surprise, wasn't it?" a shocked Moore quipped. "The track helped him I think, just took the sting out of the ground for him, but I still wasn't expecting that in the slightest. He compounded in the trial and he was blowing down the house, although my horses do come on after their first trial."
A $160,000 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling purchase from the Kitchwin Hills draft for George Moore Bloodstock, Dashing Fellow has won eight races from 35 starts so is a more than useful performer.
Dashing Fellow is a half-brother to stakes-winner Aeronautical and is one of three winners from stakes-placed Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) mare Moon Fever, a half-sister to stakes-winner Brilliant Bisc from Group I winner Stella Cadente.
A troubled producer, she has not had a living foal since leaving Dashing Fellow.
A Group I winning son of Red Ransom (USA), Duporth was initially well supported at Kitchwin Hills, but is now standing at Kooringal Stud at a fee of $7,700.
