Widden Stud’s gorgeous stallion Russian Camelot (IRE) is a showstopper in the looks department and promising three year-old Veyepee is stamped very much in his image and posted his second win from as many starts at Caulfield on Wednesday.
Trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, Veyepee won his debut at Geelong on Australia Day and made a smooth transition to metro midweek company when beating older rivals to win the Benchmark 66 event over 1500m.
Ridden again by Lachlan Neindorf, Veyepee let down with a strong finish to surge clear and win by a length.
Veyepee was a $140,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Dream Thoroughbreds / Bluegrass Bloodstock (FBAA) / Anthony Freedman Racing and is a half-brother to stakes-placed Ceccheti from Group III placed Savabeel mare Vandancer.
He is the third winner from three foals to race from Vandancer, a full sister to stakes-winner Queen Sabeel, the dam of Group III winner Sagunto. Going back further it is the family of the great front running champion of the 1980’s Vo Rogue.
Pedigree gurus will be fascinated with this pedigree for another reason as Veyepee has a unique 4 x 4 x 4 triple cross of champion sire Sadler’s Wells, which is not something you see every day and certainly not in Australia.
Widden Stud sold a full brother to Veyepee at Magic Millions last year to Matt Cumani for $125,000 and Vandancer was covered again last year by Russian Camelot after producing a yearling colt by Bruckner and a filly foal by Doubtland.
