12th 2yo winner for Redoute’s Choice this season
Columbus (ex Kapchat by Centaine) became the 12th individual juvenile winner in Australia for Redoute’s Choice this season, and remarkably, the tenth to win first-up when he scored impressively over 1000 metres at Flemington last Saturday.
Bred by Swettenham Stud, and raced by Peter Devitt & Les Gordon, the colt was sold twice at Magic Millions sales, as a weanling for $630,000 in 2008, and $1.2 million in 2009.
Stable foreman Tom Dabernig told Racing and Sports after the race, “He’s got a real stallion’s pedigree and did that easily. He settled well and came home powerfully.
“We’ll probably put him aside now and be back for the spring classics. You’ll see the best of him as a three-year-old.”
Group One winner Kapchat, from the family of Golden Slipper winner Courtza and her champion sire son O’Reilly, has already left G3 winner Kaphero to Arrowfield sire Danzero.
Columbus’ win put his champion sire on top of the Australian Two-Year-Old Sires’ list (by winners) alongside Redoute’s Choice’s sire son Stratum.
The other nine two-year-olds by Redoute’s Choice to win on debut in Australia this season are: Beneteau (G3 winner & G1-placed), Bedhrah, Evidentia, Glenkinchie, Love in Spring, My Amelia, Rekindled Interest, Ringstrasse & Slater.
Shaaheq won the VRC Thoroughbred Breeders’ S. G3 at her fifth start, after four second placings, and Tom’s Choice won his second start.
