The Lindsay Park team produced a promising debut 2YO winner for Farnan at Ballarat on Thursday with Cavill Avenue saluting as favourite.
Cavill Avenue had shown talent in her jump outs and was expected to run well although Jamie Melham had to earn her fee to angle the green filly into the clear after turning for home.
When she got the clear running she needed, Cavill Avenue knuckled down to the task and hit the line well to win by half a length.
“From her trials she looked like she had a lot of talent, but she is very green and doesn’t really know what she is doing,” said Jamie Melham.
“I was a bit nervous when the gap came and it was a tight gap, so she had to be brave and trust me and she took it. That run will bring her on a lot going forward.”
A $200,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the Blue Gum Farm draft for Lindsay Park Racing / Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, Cavill Avenue was bred by Trilogy Racing and is a three-quarter sister to Group III placed Voldemort.
She is the third winner from Devious Maid, a winning full sister to Group II winner Bring Me the Maid from the family of Golden Slipper winner Polar Success.
Cavill Avenue is the 40th Australian winner this season for Farnan, who is the leading second crop sire by winners and will stand at Vinery this spring.
