For the third time in the last four weekend’s China Horse Club celebrated a major result over Sydney’s Autumn Carnival with Captivant powering to victory in the AUD500,000 G1 Champagne Stakes. The striking colt joins Stay Inside (G1 Golden Slipper) and Wild Ruler (G2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint) as colts who have cemented their futures at the Hunter Valley based Newgate Farm.
The boom two-year-old led home a weekend for the ages for China Horse Club whose colours were also carried to success on the same programme in the AUD160,000 G3 JRA Plate by Paths of Glory. Earlier in the day the lightly raced Costa Del Mar broke her maiden, while the day closed with Singapore talisman Grand Koonta a fighting third in the SGD300,000 G1 Lion City Cup.
“Creating stallion prospects is the ultimate objective of China Horse Club’s operations so to achieve that result in three of the last four weekends is a monumental result and something that everyone involved with the club is rightly proud of,” said Michael Wallace, Chief Operating Officer for China Horse Club.
“It is difficult to recall a better start to the year for us. The Australian arm of our operation has done a sterling job and the talent that has surfaced will play a key role again as the major carnivals start again in the spring. Coupled with the quality of horse flesh we have in 2021 in the United States especially and support from across Europe and Singapore there is every reason to be buoyant.”
Captivant will be immediately spelled ahead of a spring that is expected to take in the G1 Golden Rose and G1 Caulfield Guineas. He will add considerable weight to an armada of talent headed by Stay Inside, Artorius, Dame Giselle, Wild Ruler and Tiger of Malay.
Grand Koonta was exceptional on an unsuitably wet track and he may be given his chance to stretch his speed to a mile in the G1 Kranji Mile next month. The trajectory of the James Peters trainee has been exceptional since he arrived in the Asian racing centre and there is every reason to believe he will be a contender in any contest he is entered into.
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