Four heats for juveniles were run at the Warwick Farm trials on Tuesday morning and while we often feature expensive yearling purchases with big pedigrees it was a $600 Inglis Online purchase from Yulong that caught our eye first.
Yulong has become a huge breeding operation that has expanded from Victoria into NSW for the first time this year, but not all of the horses they breed are in strong commercial demand.
They offered a weanling colt by Tagaloa from Not a Single Doubt mare Wide Awake through the 2024 Inglis Digital May (late) and he was snaffled by Bruce Rollings for a paltry $600 and named Jammed.
Jammed is the second foal of Wide Awake and her first foal is three year old Tagaloa gelding Silvaloa, who made $20,000 at Inglis Classic and has since come out and won for the Ben Brisbourne stable.
Jammed was gelded and sent to Graham Brown at Warwick Farm to be trained and he had his first trial this morning.
He led all the way for Zac Wadick to win by a couple of lengths over Royal Vista, an unraced filly by Palace Pier (GB) that made $475,000 at Inglis Easter and is the highest priced yearling from the first and only Australian crop of yearlings by her sire.
It’s a barrier trial, so let’s not get too excited, but if I had paid $600 for a horse that came out and did that first go, I would be excited!
The Chris Waller trained I Am Invincible colt Steel Will took on some pretty good horses in his first two starts earlier this year finishing third to The Next Episode on debut and then seventh in the Group III ATC Kindergarten Stakes to Blue Door with The Next Episode second.
This was his first trial back and he jumped fast for Tyler Schiller to find himself in the lead, albeit held together and travelling deep before surging to the line under his own steam to win by a neck in the fastest time of the four 2YO heats.
A homebred for Go Bloodstock, Steel Will is the half-brother to dual Group I winner September Run, Group III winner Steel City and stakes-placed Steel Strike being from Group III winning Street Cry (IRE) mare Pittsburgh Flyer, who has had five foals to race four winners.
Steel Will won’t have to improve much to knock off a winter maiden to keep her record perfect.
Additional winners were: Konomie (Wild Ruler) and Wardeel (Dundeel).
Click here for all the trial results at Breednet with Sale Mail and at Racing NSW with video.
