Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock was the leading buyer at Inglis Easter this year signing for 15 yearlings for a grand total of $8,775,000 and a Zoustar filly they purchased at the sale last year for $950,000 cast off maiden status at Gosford on Thursday.
Victorian trainer Clayton Douglas went close to G1 glory on Saturday when his stable star Giga Kick ran second in the Group I ATC TJ Smith Stakes and travelling up from Mornington with the glamour sprinter has been three year-old filly Dragon Scroll.
Unplaced at her only race start last year, Dragon Scroll has trialled nicely twice last month in Sydney for Rachel King, who took the ride on Thursday.
Sent off favourite for the 1000m maiden, Dragon Scroll needed the length of the straight to catch the leader, but got there on the line to win by a long neck going away.
A $950,000 Inglis Easter purchase from Widden Stud, Dragon Scroll runs in the familiar colours of Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing as does Giga Kick.
She is a half-sister to stakes-placed $1.5million earner Spywire being the fourth winner from four foals to race from stakes-winning Denman mare Secret Trail.
Widden sold a yearling colt by Anamoe from Secret Trail at Magic Millions this year for $1.1million to Cuaron Maher and that colt is the highest priced yearling from the first crop of Australian Horse of the Year Anamoe.
Secret Trail had no foal last year, but is now in foal to champion sire Zoustar.
