Moscatel might have missed the juvenile features at the Sydney Autumn Carnival, but Adrian Bott is hopeful Monday’s impressive debut winner may yet get a crack at securing some valuable Black Type before her two-year-old season is out.
The high-priced daughter of Snitzel was a dominant winner of the $65,000 Kia Ora Bloodlines To Headlines 2YO Handicap (1100m) on the Kensington track.
The 4-1/2-length win came a little over a week after the Carnival had moved on from Sydney, but Bott has already turned his attention to regional standalone fixtures or even further north with the half-sister to Group 2 Percy Sykes Stakes winner Eneeza.
“There is a two-year-old fillies race at Scone that she might be well-suited to, the Listed Woodlands Sakes,” Bott said.
“That’s the reason we wanted to be here today and that should give her enough time to get through to a race like that or, if not, we could look through to Queensland.”
The $200,000 Listed Woodlands Stakes (1100m) will be run on the second day of Scone’s feature carnival, Saturday May 16.
Moscatel looked every bit the Stakes contender in her debut romp under Tim Clark.
🔵⚫️ How’s that for a debut 🤩 MOSCATEL, a top priced @mmsnippets graduate, proved today that she’s well on her way to repaying her owners 🐎 She showed speed in abundance and has an extremely exciting future 👏🏼 🥂 @resracingky @clarkyhk pic.twitter.com/6bnyrGpdr3
— Gai Waterhouse AO (@GaiWaterhouse1) April 27, 2026
After jumping well, the $3 favourite travelled well in the lead and skipped clear early in the straight before clearing out for victory over Sing Your Song ($12), who finished three-quarters-of-a-length clear of third placegetter Quarterback ($14).
“I thought I was the winner about three strides after the start, it was pretty much race over once she began like she did,” Clark said.
Moscatel, who is out of the Group 2 winner Sweet Sherry, joined Bott and Gai Waterhouse after they paid $1.6 million for her in partnership with John Stewart’s Resolute Racing at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Initially Bott held out hope Moscatel might make an appearance prior to the Golden Slipper, but the trainer said she had benefitted from being afforded some extra time to mature.
“We bought her as a nice precocious type, but she’s just needed that little bit of time and we’ve always been happy to be patient with her, there’s been absolutely no rush,” he said.
“So she’s got herself here on her own merits today and I’m sure there’s a lot of upside off the back of today.”
