SEYMOUR trainer Tim Eurell’s stable cheered when galloper Wondering Spirit capped off a good run of recent form when he stepped up to a 2050 metre trip at Mornington on Sunday.
Having originally been purchased by Mick Price at the 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run sale, the well-bred four-year-old looks to have a future racing over longer distances. His dam Tully Thunder won the SAJC Australasian Oaks and she is the dam of Levendi, winner of the ATC Australian Derby.
Wondering Spirit’s half sister sold at the Magic Millions broodmare sale for $1,600,000. In the meantime Eurell plans to take the four-year-old through the grades and to see where it takes him.
At the Balnarring picnic races on Saturday, Kilmore’s Tyson Barton achieved success when his galloper Sir Lazarus made haste over a longer trip to score a maiden victory over 2000 metres. The six-year-old scored comfortably by 2.25 lengths in the hands of leading picnic jockey Shaun Cooper.
All the talk at the weekend was the incredible win by three-year-old filly Sheza Alibi by 4.29 lengths in the $4,000,000 Doncaster Mile at Randwick in the hands of Jamie Melham. The filly was purchased by farmer Fred Noffke in an online sale for just $10,000. Spare a thought for the vendor, who sold Sheza Alibi’s dam for $1,250 and another of her offspring for $800.