A half-sister to leading young sire and Champion 3YO Sprinter Bivouac, Godolphin blueblood filly Sequinned opened her account at Randwick on Wednesday.
Trained by Chris Waller, the two year-old Pinatubo (IRE) filly has been her own worst enemy and did herself no favours when unplaced at her two previous runs at the start of the year.
Resuming from a spell and fitted with a cross over noseband, Sequinned was given a careful ride by Zac Lloyd, who managed to settle the filly back in the field with a hectic pace working in his favour.
When he said go at the 300m mark, Sequinned let down with a good finish and unwound all the way to the line to win the 1100m maiden by more than a length over first starter Wanda’s Spark with race favourite Eviction Notice in third.
“It’s a good result for Godolphin as she is an incredibly well bred horse,” said stable representative Charlie Duckworth.
“She has an excellent will to win as she had to dig deep and the speed up front definitely helped her as she can fire up a little bit. She has plenty of upside too.”
Zac Lloyd rode Sequinned in one trial last prep, so was not unfamiliar with the filly and he did a great job to bring out her talent.
“A good barrier helped and I was barely touching the reins the whole way around,” he said.
“She had a great attitude the last 300m the way she pins her ears back, so if she can just learnt to race properly and hopefully a day out like today can get her going in the right direction.”
Sequinned is a half-sister to triple Group I winner Bivouac and stakes-winner Coruscate being the seventh winner from eight foals to race from Dazzler, a metro winning half-sister by More Than Ready (USA) to four time Group I winner Guelph from Group I winner Camarilla.
Dazzler has a rising 2YO filly by Anamoe called Tucana that has gone to Michael Freedman and had a filly last spring by Cylinder before having a year off.
Sequinned is the sixth winner from the first Aussie bred crop of foals for Pinatubo, who will be back at Darley NSW this spring at a fee of $27,500.
