This is the time of year when some three-year-olds start getting very good indeed, and eternity<\/EM><\/STRONG>‘s homebred Narayan<\/STRONG> used last Saturday’s Grade III Llama Enforcer Stakes<\/EM> to prove that his win in the Grade III LordPye’s EWX Tipping Stakes<\/EM> was no fluke at all.<\/P> The chocolate-brown colt was cool and collected in the post parade and loaded professionally into the gate.\u00a0 He’s been pressing the pace recently, but relaxed under A. Quirk, settling in sixth, a few lengths behind front-running Mount St. Helens<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 He was in position as they turned for home and demonstrated the same courage and grit that won him the Tipping Stakes, matching strides with Ermington Prado<\/STRONG> while Red Vise<\/STRONG> loomed large on the outside.\u00a0 ‘Prado stuck his nose in front at one point, but Narayan was having none of it and battled back to to win by a head over a late closing Red Vise.<\/P> Narayan is one of three graded stakes winners from Forestry’s three-year-old class, out of allowance-winner Gulch mare.\u00a0 He’s the second of Panthera’s<\/STRONG> two foals and her first graded stakes winner.\u00a0 Big brother Fractal<\/STRONG>, by Pulpit, is a stakes-winning earner of better than $100,000.<\/P> The Llama Enforcer was his fourth win and seventh top-three finish in nine career starts.\u00a0 The lion’s share of the $125,000 purse pushed his lifetime earnings over $200,000 and catapaulted him into the top twenty five on the three year old dirt sprinter’s list.\u00a0 He covered the seven furlongs in 1:22 and 4\/5 and recorded a 96 speed rating.<\/P> Morning line favorite Red Vise came charging late on the outside and notched a 96 as well while passing third-place Ermington in the final strides.\u00a0 Mount St. Helens burned rubber early but was outpaced by the closers down the stretch and Zababa(Aus)<\/STRONG> ran evenly for the last small check.<\/P> Nimrod’s Fortress<\/STRONG> and longshot Azroc on Chorus(Ire)<\/STRONG> dwadled early but quickened up late, while Stonybrook Lake<\/STRONG> chased the pace and tired.\u00a0 Future Dancer<\/STRONG> and Luigi Di Biagio<\/STRONG> were off their game, Nebakanezer<\/STRONG> looked a bit wobbly-legged in the stretch, and Terrordega<\/STRONG> was eased.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" $125,000 Grade III Llama Enforcer Stakes (Malaysia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}