The Bart Cummings-trained Sonic Blast put a forgettable debut behind him when he confirmed his talent with victory at Canterbury on Wednesday.
The two-year-old ran to the outside fence rounding the turn on debut at Randwick, finishing a distant last, but he turned it all around in the TJ’s Champagne Bar Plate (1200m) as he stormed home to win by a neck.
Stable foreman James Cummings believes the sky is the limit for the Charge Forward colt.
“I suggest that he’s got the world at his feet, he’s got all the ability and hopefully he can just put it together and perhaps there’s a nice race there for him in the spring,” Cummings said.
“We’ll take it run by run and won’t pick any big races just yet, but we won’t hold him back.”
Sonic Blast was ordered back to the trials after his debut on June 11 and jockey Tim Clark took confidence out of that excursion to the trials.
“There’s plenty of upside there, he’ll get over further and he’s in the right hands with Bart,” Clark said.
“It wouldn’t surprise me to see him win a pretty good race.
“I trialled him after his first-up run and he trialled well so I was confident he would run well today.”
Sonic Blast won one of the three two-year-old events staged at the meeting.
Premiership leader Chris Waller scored his 103rd metropolitan winner in Sydney this season when Mickelberg defeated stablemate Ingham Magic in the Ascot Club Plate (1200m), while jockey Kerrin McEvoy brought up the first leg of a winning double aboard the Peter Snowden-trained Bello in the Rosehill Gardens Event Centre Plate (1200m).
McEvoy followed it up later in the day when he produced a well-judged on-pace ride on the Greg Bennett-trained Kaypers in the Grand Pavilion Handicap (1550m).
Kaypers’ victory was Scone-based Bennett’s first success at the Canterbury track but it hadn’t been for lack of trying in the past.
“I’ve won races on all the other tracks in Sydney but I had never won a race here before,” Bennett said.
“I’ve been coming here for about 10 years I reckon, I’ve ran a few seconds and went home with my tail between my legs a few times.”
Kaypers has won five of his seven starts and Bennett said the three-year-old had earned a rest in the paddock before a late spring or summer campaign.
“He’s been in since December and had a long preparation. He’s won five out of seven so you can’t do much more than that and I think we’ve got a nice horse there for later on,” he said.
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