Two from Two

That was a brilliant second start win over 1100m in a time of 1:06:17.

Sonny has now broken through all the early hoodoo’s. Debut winner from a 1200m death gate, and he wins his next start after a maiden win that is just so hard to do. 2 starts 2 wins. 100% strike rate. This little horse has got a huge depth to him. Anyone care that he is little... Hehe!!

Today was a game of cat and mouse. He was the mouse and the cats were too slow. We saw again his raw gate speed...he just flew the barriers, his “sleep” mode, and then his power at the finish. He went to the line full of running and had that 3yo field well and truly covered.

The ride by Damian Lane was perfect and the kid showed poise to just let him roll to the front when it was clear Shazza was not going to match him early. Damian stayed very quiet through the corner and then gave him the first shake and crack after they rounded. He booted clear from Chief of War and then was sort of waiting for the pack to come. He only really got moving again over that final 150m when the late brigade came bearing down. But he booted away so cleanly that it makes me think he is still learning. We will keep our eye on Chief of War who showed tremendous maturity and guts for a horse having it's first race start.


Gyup
Slacka

A record worth displaying

A win on Debut

Sonny has opened his racing career with a brilliant win on debut over 1200m.


Starting from barrier 9 he exploded out of the gates and settled in a nice position one back and one off the fence. Roy had him nicely poised coming into the home turn and pushed him forward around the pace maker. Born a Diva mounted a strong challenge as they straightened and it turned into a two horse war with Sonny digging deeper and giving more to take out the maiden event by a half length in 1:12:59.


It was a very polished performance by our young gun and the ride by Roy was absolutely perfect. As he always does, Clive had Sonny turned out looking a treat and we have to tip our hats to the wizard who has done it again. The patience we showed in giving him those 3 trials has payed off for us.

There was a lot of excitement leading up to the start with wobbly legs, butterflies in stomachs, racing hearts and these were the owners not Sonny!! With a group of virgin owners, it was understandably a pretty exciting few days leading up to the race and then the race itself.

I've heard there is a video of one of the owners watching the race that would be a priceless vid to get hold of.

After the race the celebrations kicked in with a little buzz happening all over the globe from Perth, to Singapore, to Sydney, to San Francisco, and closing in Paris. I think we are still all celebrating, and as Crabs says "this replay has had more reruns than Dallas". There is a real buzz around this cracking opener and we are all in for a real fun time ahead.

Some of the memorable debut quotes:
"Great ride, great guts, great result!!"
"YA - BLOODY -HOO!
I did shit myself!
Wot a Champ!"
"Boyz, I don't know how you feel but I'm fair dinkum shittin' myself!"

Final results of the race here.

Sonny race record here.


Report above from http://www.grassrootsracingwa.com/