Three heats for juveniles over 900m at Rosehill on Monday morning produced winners for Written Tycoon, Trapeze Artist and Churchill (IRE), while the place-getters included two colts sold for $1.4million apiece.
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace trained Written Tycoon colt Goodlucktome had a good experience in his first trial travelling behind the leaders and then ambling up to expensive Snitzel colt Everybody Rise to win by a head.
Goodlucktome is a homebred for the Hutchins family and is the tenth named foal from former brilliant Group II ATC Silver Slipper Stakes winner Amelia’s Dream, who is yet to produce any offspring with her freakish ability. She has been a more than useful broodmare though with wight foals to race all winners headed by stakes -placed Impasse and Better Land.
Runner-up Everybody Rise showed good improvement from his first trial last month to his second and this $1.4million Inglis Easter purchase for James Harron is a full brother to dual Group I winning sire Russian Revolution
Maher and Eustace won the next trial with Trapeze Artist colt Spywire, who showed good natural speed from an outside gate to cross and lead with $1.4million Written Tycoon colt Media World sitting second at his girth. Spywire kept up a good gallop to the line to win by a length over Media World, who was given a couple of slaps with the whip to keep his mind on the job.
Spywire was the most expensive yearling by Trapeze Artist sold at the Gold Coast and his most expensive yearling sold anywhere in 2023 fetching $520,000 for Widden Stud when snapped up by Ciaron Maher Bloodstock/Group 1 Bloodstock and is from stakes-winning Denman mare Secret Trail.
Runner-up Media World was a $1.4million purchase for Yulong at Inglis Easter and this first foal of Group winner Meryl was also the most expensive yearling by Written Tycoon sold in 2023.
The fillies heat was actually the quickest of the three with the David Payne trained Trafalgar Square making it two trial wins from two starts when scoring a neck win with all three place-getters doing a good job under a hold.
A $110,000 Magic Millions Book 2 purchase for her trainer from the Telemon Thoroughbreds draft, Trafalgar Square is the second named foal from Amnesiac, an unraced half-sister by Excellent Art (GB) to the dam of Group I winner Prompt Response and Group III winner Prompt Return.
Runner-up Erno’s Cube has had a run finishing eighth in the Gimcrack and third placed Sakima looked a lovely filly, as she should be given she cost $1.25million and is a three-quarter sister to fast filly Russian Conquest, who was second in a Magic Millions 2YO Classic.
Click here for all the trial results at Breednet and at Racing NSW with video.
