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Source: justhorseracing.com.au
Chris Waller has fired an early Golden Slipper salvo, producing stunningly related colt Hidrix for an emphatic debut win at Rosehill as favourite Incognito disappointed.
Waller trained the quinella with Confederation ($3.40) finishing 1-3/4 lengths behind Hidrix ($13) in second, leader Eviction Notice ($4.80) holding down third a further long head back.
The winner is a full brother to star filly Apocalyptic and cost $1.7 million as a yearling.
While Waller wasn’t necessarily sold on his grey colouring, he liked everything else.
“He was out of the Coolmore draft and by Extreme Choice. He ticked all the boxes,” Waller said.
“The only thing we weren’t sure about was the colour, but we’ve got nothing to worry about, have we.
“We have given him two educational trials. We haven’t asked him to do anything. What you saw today is more than what I’ve seen.”
Waller will plot a path towards the Golden Slipper, run on March 21, for the winner and runner-up and says the exciting part is that neither has been wound up.
“The beauty of our horses is you know they’re still on the up. They will have a ceiling as well, but hopefully we don’t find that ceiling until Slipper day,” he said.
Winning jockey Zac Lloyd was taken by the improvement Hidrix had shown from each trial to race day and said the youngster always travelled well in the run.
“He’s just bombproof. He does everything right,” Lloyd said.
“He was extremely push-button.”