The main event at Austarlia’s Victoria racecourse is the Blue Diamond Road Stakes, a Grade 1 event worth a juicy $750k in Sim dollars. The race is for 2yo’s over seven grassy furlongs, and an intriguing field of ten precocious youngsters will face the starter.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P> While only two of these colts has managed a stakes win, all have shown plenty of ability to be able to win many races in the future, if the cards fall right for them.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P> ROUGE WARRIOR<\/SPAN><\/B> is a very interesting case… The son of Einstein has raced four times, all on dirt in California. It took four tries to pull off a maiden win, then he was shipped all the way Down Under for this Grade 1 on the sod. Does trainer <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>blankpoin4<\/SPAN><\/I> know something here? Could be; the colt’s young shemale sire’s only win on the track was a turf race, and there is plenty of turf influence on the dam’s side of his pedigree. The 5\/1 shot is very dangerous if he proves to like grass racing. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P> CHOICES ROCK <\/SPAN><\/B>has improved off his somewhat lackluster beginnings to be a solid closer, showing great ability in his last pair. The only recent offspring son of Jet Master to win a stakes, he just missed getting his first Graded win last time out. The extra distance added should be helpful for this <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>deeprock25<\/SPAN><\/I> trainee, too. 9\/1 would be a very nice price; can get there with just a little improvement.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> RANDSTAD<\/SPAN><\/B> responded nicely when moved back to the sod a couple starts back, quickly reeling off a MSW win and a solid out-of-the-clouds allowance win. The <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>zeco2<\/SPAN><\/I>-trained son of Montjeu goes off at 8\/1, and should appreciate the added distance today.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> MIAMI FOREST<\/SPAN><\/B> broke his maiden in a solid debut, but his two stakes tries since have resulted in late-fade losses to good fields, especially the one in the Manatee Stakes. The quick 20\/1 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>kfastno15<\/SPAN><\/I>-trained son of Forestier (likely a bargain-bred, and also likely a very good return-on-investment) has ability, but will need quite a bit of improvement to be able to hang in late with this group.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> BLAZING GIMLET<\/SPAN><\/B> is a 5\/1 shot, racing under the colors of the <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>mtkfever <\/SPAN><\/I>barn. Another speedster, the son of Tanino Gimlet fell just short of a win in his debut, then crushed a MSW field his next time out. He’ll need some improvement on his high-70’s numbers to win here, but he appeared to have quite a bit left in the tank last time out.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> GRAYONE<\/SPAN><\/B> is a scratch-bred son of oscure sire Red Dazzler, going off at 20\/1. He already has seven starts under his belt for <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>graywolf6<\/SPAN><\/I>, only cracking the 70 mark twice. Would be a surprise.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> The speedy <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>SENAN<\/SPAN><\/B> has broken the 80 mark twice in his three career tries while facing some very solid-looking runners. The son of Invincible Spirit trained by <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>limpid<\/SPAN><\/I> should figure in the early running here, and may have enough to be in the pic at the wire, too. He’s the 7\/2 2<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>nd<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SUP> choice on the morning line.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> THE SAME DIRECTION<\/SPAN><\/B>, a 17\/1 shot trained by <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>rubiano00<\/SPAN><\/I>, won at first asking in solid but slowish fashion. The son of Henrythenavigator out of a 6-time stakes-winning granddaughter of Seattle Slew might be \u201clive\u201d, despite what the CPU seems to think. Still, this is asking quite a bit of a 2nd-time starter who hasn’t broken the 70 mark yet.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> ROQUE HARD TEN<\/SPAN><\/B> is trained by <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>clooch0918<\/SPAN><\/I> and goes off at 7\/1. The son of Rock Hard Ten didn’t embarrass himself too badly in his Graded debut, but quite a bit more will be needed for real contention in this bunch.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> The CPU favorite is <\/SPAN>SAN JACINTO<\/B>, who goes off at 3\/1. The son of Giant’s Causeway is 4-for-4 thus far in his career, having come from well off the pace to fly past the leaders in Zenyatta-like fashion in each of his impressive, fast wins. This <\/SPAN>super13<\/SPAN><\/I> trainee should be tough again today, especially with the extra furlong of room for him to bring home his huge closing rush.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> Conclusions:<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> If <\/SPAN>SAN JACINTO<\/B> brings his usual closing rush with him today, it’s hard to imagine him not getting his pic taken in the winner’s circle.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> SENAN <\/B>holds most of the speed cards, and should be able to hold off all except the top choice.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> CHOICES ROCK <\/B>should be able to get past all the rest of ’em, and he could do even better, at a nice price.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P> Of course, all this figuring could be completely messed up if Rouge Warrior adapts to the grass nicely.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT> Good luck at the races!!<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Undefeated 2yo San Jacinto Favored<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","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\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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