John O’Shea will consider adding juvenile Bound For Earth to his Brisbane winter carnival team following her debut victory at Canterbury on Wednesday.
A daughter of 2002 VRC Oaks winner Bulla Borghese, Bound For Earth started the $2.50 favourite and after settling handy to the speed, pulled clear in the straight to take out the Australian Turf Club Handicap (1250m) by 1-1/2 lengths.
O’Shea believes Bound For Earth has a bright future but where her mother was a stayer, he believes his filly is a sprinter-miler.
“Her mother was an Oaks winner but it was a Victorian Oaks and I think a mile will probably pull her up,” O’Shea said.
O’Shea confirmed Bound For Earth was being considered for a winter campaign in Brisbane.
“You would probably think so but she is entitled to have one more run in Sydney first,” he said.
“We will probably give her one more run here and decide after that.”
Trainer Matthew Smith also unveiled a promising galloper in Choisir La Rouge.
Having his first start the three-year-old wobbled around the home turn and raced greenly in the straight but showed his class to reel in leader Rastro and score a half-length win.
“I will try to educate him and get him to go through his grades. Hopefully next year we’ll have a really nice horse,” Smith said.
It was also a successful afternoon for Neville Voigt who produced his second city winner in five days when My Little Beauty led throughout to claim the Become An ATC Sponsor Handicap (1200m).
Voigt, who trains in partnership with his son Christopher, celebrated a stakes victory on Saturday with Riocetto in the Fernhill Handicap.
The youngster will back up in this weekend’s Group One Champagne Stakes.
Premier trainer Chris Waller had a rare winless afternoon and stewards added salt to the wound, slapping him with a $1000 fine for inadvertently leaving a lead bag off Midnight Minx in the final race.
Stewards, chaired by Marc van Gestel, took into account that the Waller stable had made the same mistake on two other occasions in the past seven months, while also noting Waller saddled up more runners than any other trainer in NSW.
“So you could say that should make you good at it,” van Gestel said.
