A pair of youngsters by Westbury Stud stallions provided the Karaka farm with a royal result in Saturday’s juvenile event at Eagle Farm.
Reliable Man’s son Can’t Recall One produced a perfect debut performance to win over 1300 metres and account for the Tarzino two-year-old Wowzino.
Prepared at the Sunshine Coast by Stuart Kendrick, Can’t Recall One drifted back in the early running and thundered home from last with 600 metres to run to score in the hands of Robbie Dolan.
“He was very impressive and had trialled up well,” Kendrick said.
“He’s taken a lot of work and has been in the stable for a while, but the penny has dropped and he’s sprinted very well.
“He is a horse with plenty of potential and will go a lot further.”
Can’t Recall One was bred by The Oaks Stud and is closely related to Reliable Man’s G1 New Zealand Oaks winner Miss Sentimental.
Also the family of top-flight winners Complacent and Dracula, he was a $90,000 graduate of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale.
Wowzino had been given a couple of quiet trials ahead of his first race day outing by trainer David Vandyke, who prepared Tarzino’s daughter Gypsy Goddess to win the G1 Queensland Oaks.
He was bred by Bloomsbury Stud and purchased by Rick Connolley Bloodstock for $150,000 at Karaka where he was offered by Woburn Farm.
Wowzino is out of the Exceed And Excel mare Walk On Water, who is a half-sister to the Listed Trevor Eagle Memorial winer Tavy with the third dam the G1 Ellerslie Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Good Faith.