Recording his second win from only three starts, 3yo Farnan colt Blessed Eagle once again showed an impressive turn of foot, putting the race away in a matter of strides in the run to the line at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
A winner on debut before going down narrowly to Godolphin filly Sequined at his next start with that winner going on to finish fifth in Saturday's G2 Tea Rose Stakes, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained colt started the eventual favourite with the late scratching at the barriers of John O’Shea and Tom Charlton’s Peyton.
Straight to the lead under Chad Schofield from the outside barrier in the field of10, the flashy colt maintained a solid tempo with the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr trained Phillip Island working into second with the leader’s stablemate Reachin’ Out tracking along well in third on the rail.
With the Peter Snowden trained Sky Deck, a winner of his past two starts, one of the first to make his run, Schofield asked for an effort passing the 300m mark with his mount responding in the manner of a quality colt, charging away to put the race away in a matter of strides.
Scoring by a little over two lengths, Blessed Eagle took his overall record to two wins and a third from three starts with earnings of $84,800.
Bred and sold by Kia Ora Stud, Blessed Eagle was knocked down to George Morre Bloodstock at the 2025 Magic Millions yearling sale for $525,000.
A half-brother to the Listed Gosford Guineas winner Royal Tribute, Blessed Eagle is the second runner, and winner out of the Elusive Quality (USA) mare Jennifer Lynnette (CAN), a G3 winner in Canada and a granddaughter of the outstanding Strategic Maneuver (USA), whose five wins from ten starts included the G1 Spinaway Stakes.
After being passed in for $450,00 at this year’s Magic Millions yearling sale, the current 2yo out of the mare, a Snitzel filly named Sueno has been retained to race by Kia Ora Stud and has been placed in the stable of Philip and Tommy Stokes.
Jennifer Lynnette has a yearling filly by Snitzel and foaled a colt by Farnan just two days ago, adding a nice pedigree update.
Blessed Eagle is one of 18 individual winners so far this season headed by G2 Missiles Stakes winner and Everest contedner Ninja for the Vinery Stud-based Farnan who is standing this season for $77,000 (inc. GST).
