There’s a late season rush of action at the trials as the current season babies look to get a run on the board at two with eight heats won by juveniles, but most interesting by far was the return of I’m Ya Huckleberry.
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained colt I’m Ya Huckleberry was the first Home Affairs to put his hand up at the start of the season when winning impressively at the official spring trials.
He beat a couple of colts that day in Paradoxium and The Machine Gun, who have both emerged as stakes-winners this season, while he stepped out once in the Group III ATC Breeders Plate for a second to Incognito and has not been sighted since.
Sidelined with injury, I’m Ya Huckleberry stepped out this morning in a 900m heat with Adam Hyeronimus on board and looked to have lost none of his enthusiasm.
He flew the gates and went forward out wide to share the lead and covered ground all the way going on to win by a length.
He never looked that comfortable on the ground and was held together for a lot of the trial, so will take benefit from that given his length of time away from competition and it will be interesting to see him again when he is fitter and on firmer footing.
I’m Ya Huckleberry was a $400,000 Magic Millions purchase for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing/Kestrel Thoroughbreds from the draft of Kia Ora, who retain a share in his ownership.
They sold his yearling three-quarter sister by I Am Invincible from Key at the Gold Coast this year for $1.2million to Knine Inc/Rising Sun Syndicate.
The Tom Charlton trained I Am Invincible filly Scintillation won on debut at Gosford in February and was third to Medicinal in the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes in March before spelling. This was her second trial back and she led all the way for Zac Lloyd and was soft to the line to win by half a length.
Keep an eye on third placed Navigation, an expensive Yulong purchase by Extreme Choice, this colt was having his second trial for Team Hawkes and hit the line nicely under a hold. He comes from the Eight Carat (GB) family and was bred and sold by Gilgai Farm, that’s enough for him to go in my Black Book.
Retained to race by Rosemont after passing in at Inglis Easter, Scintillation she is the first foal of Group III winning Exceed and Excel mare Minhaaj, who was bought by Rosemont for $1.8million at the MM Shadwell Dispersal in 2021.
Scintillation has already had a sniff of Black Type and no doubt the goal will be to finish this season with a stakes win on the resume.
Additional winners were: Savvy Diamond (Savabeel), Roebuck Plane (Fastnet Rock), Mikoyan (Russian Revolution), Lava Flow (Too Darn Hot (GB)), Temptation (Lucky Vega (IRE) and Global Light (Lucky Vega (IRE).
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