Take note of the name, because it may not be the last time you see it in print. Swampy Sturm a strapping, well-grown son of Dynaformer provided one of the shocks of the season by defeating a decent field for the Victoria Crown-G3<\/I>. He started at the rather generous odds of 40\/1 and in my preview I stated that he was \u2018not one to take lightly.\u2019 <\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 The colt had one start as a 3yo where he finished 6th<\/SUP> of 12 in a maiden over 7 furlongs. Connections then decided to give him a year off, and judging from his physique I can see why. The horse needed that time to grow into his frame and he is now much more the finished article. <\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 Since returning to the track from his sabbatical, he has compiled an impressive record of 4 wins from 5 starts, his only loss coming in a dirt race. It\u2019s too early to say how far he can go but when looking at the records of those that finished behind him, you sense that a Grade 1 victory is only a matter of time.<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 Running a heart-breaking second for the 7th<\/SUP> time in a graded race was Neale Daniher. This must be the unluckiest horse in training. He looked all over the winner as he took up the running close home but was passed in the shadow of the post by the winner. If he is kept to minor graded company, then I am confident he will put the graded hoodoo to rest in the future. The big disappointment of the race was the favorite, Preferred Power. This run was well below the form he produced in winning the Judgemont International-G1 <\/I>and finishing second in the Man Of War-G1 <\/I>last time. <\/I>He may possibly still be feeling the effects of what was a hard race in the Man Of War. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be better next time.<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 As a post-script to the race, the breeding purists would have a field day with the winner\u2019s pedigree. By a son of Roberto, out of a mare by Roberto, he is inbred 2×2 to the 1972 English Derby winner. Sometimes it pays to keep it in the family!<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 Tmica trainee comes out of nowhere to take G3 event on only his sixth start<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"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-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","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\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}