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Zabeel (NZ) - Diamond Lover
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How many times do top priced
yearlings prove to be a major disappointment on the track?
Countless! Don Eduardo, however, made sure he would NOT join the ever
growing list of high priced failures when the regally bred colt put it all
together in the autumn of 2002. He was the most expensive yearling ever
sold in the Southern Hemisphere, for $2.8m ($3.6m NZ), sold in New
Zealand. Bred by Cambridge Stud, Don Eduardo is a three quarter brother to
the mighty Octagonal, and becomes yet another Group 1 winner from the famed
Eight Carat Harem. Trained by Lee Freedman, the colt has been slow to
mature, but recorded 4 successive victories in Melbourne, culminating in the
Group 2 Shannon Classic at Caulfield. He came to Sydney, and ran an
impressive second to Gai Waterhouse's brilliant colt Carnegie Express in the
Rosehill Guineas (he also won the Canterbury Guineas, and ironically it was
Octagonal's close relation that narrowly denied him equally Octagonal in winning
the Sydney Triple Crown). Don Eduardo, ridden by Damien Oliver, ran down
Carnegie Express to win the AJC Derby narrowly, on a day's racing that promotors
and us photographers dream about, for roughly an hour later Sunline was
victorious in the Doncaster Handicap. Don Eduardo's future at stud is now
secure, with his Group 1 win. Hopefully he will race on as a four year old
(unlike another of the Eight Carat clan, Viking Ruler, who after another injury
was retired to stud), and has the Cups written all over him. How much would he
be worth then! |
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