Brilliant Terror could have earned himself a trip to to Brisbane for the final juvenile Group One race of the season with his win at Rosehill on Saturday.
The Bjorn Baker-trained two-year-old showed his tenacity to hold on for a half-head win over Estonian Princess in the Bishop Kevin Manning Plate (1350m) and fuel ambitions for next Saturday’s J J Atkins (1600m) at Eagle Farm.
Brilliant Terror - Photo by Steve Hart
His win also gave Nathan Berry a winning return to Sydney racing from suspension with the jockey taking time to visit his twin Tommy in Hong Kong where he is riding with success on a short contract.
Baker confirmed the Eagle Farm race was in his thoughts and Berry said the gelding would have no problems with the distance.
“He will run a mile and Bjorn always has his two-year-olds very fit,” Berry said.
“He is a really nice horse and it’s great to get a winner at my first ride back.”
Baker, who was at Eagle Farm to oversee City Of Song, said the son of Guillotine, who has won and run second at his only two starts, had cost $8000 as a weanling.
“He is the first and only weanling I’ve ever bought,” Baker siad.
“My wife Andrea is a part-owner so this should get me out of dish duties for the next week.”
The Darley team kicked off the Rosehill meeting with a win from Emblems who was left to uphold the family honour when his stakes-winning half-brother Bello missed a run in Melbourne because of the Sandown wash-out.
Josh Parr rode Emblems to a fighting half-length victory over stablemate Knoydart in the Project Ten Handicap (1200m).
“He is a nice horse and is coming into his own now,” Peter Snowden’s foreman Brad Widdup said.
“He is a gross horse and is still learning.”
Parr said Emblems filled him with confidence when he rode him early in the week.
“I galloped him on Tuesday and he went really well so I was confident coming here today,” he said.
