Future looking bright for Killavally
Killavally has been taken along quietly and the waiting tactics were handsomely rewarded with a debut victory.
Trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace recently produced the gelding for a first-up win at Ballarat over 1400 metres.
The son of Ocean Park got the job done in a style that strongly suggests he will make his way through the grades.
Purchased for $80,000 out of Waikato Stud’s draft at Karaka, Killavally is a son of Enjoy.
She is an unraced O’Reilly mare and a daughter of the dual stakes winner Playful Fingers.
It is most notably the family of Hancock Park and her daughter Park Lane, both Group winners in South Africa.
Ocean Park Trans-Tasman Double
With Andrew Forsman’s 3yo Ocean Park filly Pine Leaf breaking her maiden by a widening four and a quarter-lengths in the last at Cambridge on Wednesday, celebrations continued as just ten minutes later it was the Chirs Waller trained Velaris who saluted at Canterbury with fellow Ocean Park runner I Park finishing a gallant third.
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Tivaci’s Movie Night steals the show at Newcastle
A sister to the Gr.1 ATC Flight Stakes (1600m) winner Never Been Kissed, the Waikato Stud-bred and raced Movie Night (NZ) was rewarded for her consistency, breaking her maiden with an all-the-way win over 1400m at Newcastle for trainer Tom Charlton.
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