Double delight for Ardrossan

Saltcoats and Beau Dazzler provided Ardrossan with a significant winning double in Australia this afternoon.

The sons of the emerging Waikato Stud stallion were successful at Randwick and Eagle Farm respectively and both considered future Group 1 prospects.

Saltcoats won his second race on the bounce when he scored over 2000 metres for trainer Chris Waller and rider Nash Rawiller.

“If he keeps going around in these races for a while longer and getting his rating up a bit more, I think there’ll be a Group race in him a bit further down the track,” Rawiller said.

“Even a race like the Caulfield Cup could be something they could aim at with him next spring. I think he’s got a lot of upsides.”

Saltcoats began his career with Cambridge trainer Samantha Logan and won the Listed Futurity Stakes before his sale to a syndicate headed by prominent Australian owner Ozzie Kheir, with breeder Lib Petagna remaining in the ownership.

He is out of the lightly raced Savabeel mare Savanite, a half-sister to the Gr.2 Waikato Gold Cup winner Singing Star, who in turn is the dam of Group 3 winner Miss Selby.

Meanwhile, Beau Dazzler will head for a break off the back of his impressive win over 2100 metres at Eagle Farm where the colt thumped his three-year-old rivals under clear topweight of 60kg.

Co-trainer Maddysen Sears said he will now go to the paddock before returning for a crack at the Gr.1 Queensland Derby.

Beau Dazzler was bred by the Dewar Partnership and sold through Mapperley Stud’s draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $85,000 with Paul Moroney, Catheryne Bruggeman and Sears Racing signing the ticket.

Out of the Pentire mare Pwerfect, his younger brother Toretto will bid to enhance his Listed Karaka Millions prospects in the Gr.2 Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day.