A promising debut 2YO winner on Tuesday and a metro winner at Sandown on Wednesday, the season is ending with a flourish for Widden stud’s Russian Camelot (IRE).
Talented filly Censori burst back to top form at the start of this month and then handled a step up to Benchmark 70 company to win again today.
Trained by Danny O’Briuen and ridden by Lachlan Neindorf, Censori ploughed through the heavy 10 conditions to win the 1600m contest by a long head and has now three two of six starts earning over $160,000 in prizemoney.
Censori was bred by Danny O’Brien in partnership and is raced by he and his wife after the filly was offered through Inglis Digital in 2023 along with her dam to dissolve that partnership.
“We bred her dam Berkshire Lady, who was placed in a Tassie Oaks and I also trained the grand-dam Placement, who was by Savabeel and went right through in the spring to place in a Wakeful Stakes and an Oaks,” O’Brien said after Censori won on debut last spring.
“It’s not often you have three generations of the same family to train.”
Censori is very much an O’Brien bred product as the trainer also prepared her sire Russian Camelot and dam sire Star Witness!
Berkshire Lady had a colt by Russian Camelot last spring and will foal again to him this year.
Censori is one of 19 winners for Russian Camelot, whose oldest progeny are three year-olds and they include Group placed horses Morgana and Beyond Question.
Russian Camelot stands at Widden Victoria at a fee of $11,000.
