News - PROFITEER (AUS)
Apprentice jockey Jack Taplin is going from strength to strength and scored a deserved first stakes win when piloting the Kenny Rae-trained Fraudster to victory in the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton last Saturday.
Newgate Farm based Capitalist son Profiteer is on the board with his first stakes-winner after progressive 3YO Fraudster won the Group III Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton in New Zealand on Saturday.
A promising debut winner at Ballarat on Tuesday serves as a filly to keep a good eye on and not just for the races she may go on to win, but also for the fact she has an older half-sister that might end this season a G1 winner.
It’s been a nail biting finish in the race to be the leading sire of Australian winners and it went right down to the wire with Newgate based Capitalist landing two new winners on Friday to take the title.
Ask any athlete or indeed any human being of a competitive bent about the value of winning and of course that’s important, but the thing that matters most is personal best and the quest to be better than you were.
There is an easy way to break your maiden and a hard one and the Paul Shailer trained Profit in Paradise definitely found the hard way when saluting at Eagle Farm on Wednesday to become the fifth winner for his young sire Profiteer.
Profiteer was a super fast juvenile in the Price Kent stable back in 2021 winning the Inglis Millennium and splitting Anamoe and Home Affairs when second in the Group II ATC Todman Stakes and the Price Kent team produced a new winner for the young stallion at Sale on Sunday.
Unbeaten at the trials, speedy Profiteer gelding Peter Profit took his good form to race day to score a debut victory on Friday as a short priced favourite.
Fleet footed Capitalist colt Profiteer was a brilliant five length winner of the Inglis Millennium back in 2021 earning him a place on the Newgate Farm stallion roster and his first winner Star of Jamaica may be given the chance to follow in his footsteps.
The Newgate Farm roster will expand significantly in 2022 with the addition of Stay Inside, Wild Ruler and now Tiger of Malay and Profiteer with Captivant another possibility depending on how his current campaign plays out.
With a first prize equal to that of the Magic Millions 2yo Classic, the Inglis 2yo Millennium will dramatically impact the race for leading two-year-old sire, but it is just one of five black-type races for the babies on Saturday.
Strapping Capitalist colt Profiteer has the two-year-old autumn features in his sights following a bloodless victory at his career debut over 1100 metres at Flemington on Saturday.