Two days after Amelia’s Jewel’s stunning Let’s Elope Stakes win, her young half-brother will be on show in the first official two-year-old trial of the season in Sydney.
The Annabel Neasham-trained Bosustow is engaged in the first of 12 two-year-old trials at Randwick’s Kensington track on Monday morning.
The son of Blue Point and Bumbasina was a $900,000 Magic Millions buy for the Rosemont Alliance and while Rosemont principal Anthony Mithen is thrilled to see him put his hand up early, Monday’s trial is not necessarily an audition for the early-season two-year-old races.
“He’s probably not really one there that is there revved up and ready to trial and win his way into the Breeders Plate,” Mithen said.
“It’s probably just to round out his education and, the way it all sat, it was a good opportunity for us to finish off his first serious preparation.
“I’d happily have the problem of him winning his trial and earning a spot in the Breeders Plate and having us have to rub or chin for a few days and decide whether or not we take a punt with him, but it’s not really the plan with him.”
Bosustow, who is named after former Carlton footballer Peter Bosustow in keeping with the Alliance’s trait of naming their horses after Aussie rules legends, is the third foal from Bumbasina, a daughter of Canford Cliffs, whose first foal was Amelia’s Jewel.
On Saturday at Flemington, that daughter of Siyouni charged home to register the eighth win of her 10 start career, which also includes two seconds placings, in the Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes.
Amelia’s Jewel’s deeds ensured the spotlight shone brightly on Bosustow at the Gold Coast in January and the Rosemont Alliance could not be happier with their purchase.
“He’s just done everything right, he’s got a good brain on him, he’s a very athletic horse, he moves well and has done everything really easily,” Mithen said.
“It’s good to have him up and at them at this stage because it will set him up beautifully for his autumn two-year-old preparation.”
Bosustow is one of the headline acceptors for what is always one of the most anticipated sets of trials of the year.
He is one of 15 acceptors for Neasham, who is the most heavily-represented trainer of the day, while Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have 13, one more than Peter and Paul Snowden.
Among the Snowdens’ runners is the most expensive yearling engaged on Monday, Bodyguard , a son of I Am Invincible and Tumooh who cost $1.6 million on the Gold Coast in January.
He goes around in Trial 7, the same hitout Espionage, a $1 million son of Zoustar who was also bought by James Harron.
The other seven-figure yearling engaged on Monday is Invincible Madison, a $1.2m I Am Invincible-Super Too filly who was bought by American interests at Magic Millions.
Bosustow is one of a number by first-season sires represented with Yes Yes Yes, Too Darn Hot, Microphone, Zousain, Brutal, Cosmic Force, Castelvecchio and Tassort also with youngsters engaged.
