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Juvenile Trial Watch – Warwick Farm

Tara Madgwick - Friday Oct 30

Three heats for juveniles at Warwick Farm on Friday were won by youngsters sired by Written Tycoon , Farnan and I Am invincible, who might have a filly with serious Magic Millions potential.

We had our first look at the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained filly Stellar Ami and she was super impressive when flying out of an outside gate to cross and lead easily for Regan Bayliss. She was kept going to win by three and a half lengths in the quickest time of the 805m 2YO heats with a final 600m breaking 33 secords.

A $600,000 Magic Millions purchase from Yarraman Park for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott/Kestrel Thoroughbreds, Stellar Ami comes from a family of fast fillies and is the second foal of Group II placed Stellar Pauline, who was also second in a Magic Millions 2YO Classic.

Stellar Pauline is a sibling to Group I winning sprinter Secret Agenda (dam of G2 winner Hidden motive) and the dams of Group winning fillies Jasmin Rouge and Enthaar with third dam Group I AJC Champagne Stakes winner Euphoria.

It’s not hard to see Stellar Ami adding further Black Type to this family off this encouraging first trial.

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Also trialling well was Written Tycoon colt Proverb, who won at the official Sydney 2YO trials before running last on debut in Melbourne on the heavy 10. Michael Freedman obviously feels that experience has done him no harm and he hit the line strongly for Tommy Berry to surge past She’s Supreme, who was third in the G3 Gimcrack on debut.

A $700,000 Magic Millions purchase from Yulong, he was a second slower than the flying Stellar Ami, but was in cruise control and did it under his own steam.

The Gary Portelli trained Farnan filly Vain Ambition showed improvement from her first trial when second and looked very professional jumping quickly to find the fence and take the lead for Kerrin McEvoy. The blueblood Godolphin filly Originate is a much bigger  and stronger filly, but she lugged out in the straight and was not as tractable as Vain Ambition, who stuck to her task to win by a length and a half. She too was quicker than Proverb.

Vain Ambition was a modest $50,000 Inglis Classic purchase for her trainer from the Rheinwood Pastoral draft and will excite the pedigree gurus as she is from New Summer Night, who is from the same tail line  female family as her sire Farnan, who won a Golden Slipper.

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