The
Group 1 MRC Thousand Guineas at Caulfield on Saturday was won by the blue-blooded filly
Amicus (3f Fastnet Rock x Gold Chant, by El Moxie).
Placed at each of her three previous runs this campaign, she stripped fit and ready to go for her first crack at the 1600 metres and was ridden a forward race by Hugh Bowman.
She tracked the leader throughout and then surged clear to win by three-quarters of a length, taking her overall record to two wins and four placings from seven starts with prizemoney of $414,735.
Bowman has partnered many good fillies over the years and know what it takes to win the big ones.
“I won a maiden on her in the autumn and thought she would be a Flight Stakes class filly,” said Bowman.
Amicus is the second winner for stakes-placed
Gold Chant, a half-sister by El Moxie (USA) to champion sprinter and emerging sire
Starspangledbanner.
Gold Chant has foaled this spring producing a full sister to
Amicus by Fastnet Rock.
Amicus is the 18th Group I winner for Fastnet Rock.
Fastnet Rock made it a two state stakes double when his older daughter
Neena Rock (6m Fastnet Rock x Feminine Wiles, by Miesque’s Son) took out the
Group 3 ATC Angst Stakes at Randwick.
The six year-old was already a Group 3 winner in New Zealand, but this was her first Black Type success in Australia.
She took the 1600 metre feature by a long head and may now head to Melbourne for a shot at the Group 1 VRC Myer Classic on Derby Day at Flemington.