Carrazana (NZ) (Almanzor) looks a three-year-old to follow through his spring preparation following a dashing performance by the gelding to open his winning account on the Kensington track at Randwick over 1300m.
The Chris Waller-trained son of Almanzor had finished a late closing fourth on debut earlier this month and showed the benefit of that experience to put away a competitive age group line-up.
Carrazana drifted back to a clear last from the outside barrier before improving widest near the turn under Nash Rawiller and he thundered home to win going away by a touch over a length.
“We told Nash to ride him like a horse for the future and he showed that great turn of foot,” said Waller’s Assistant Trainer Charlie Duckworth.
“He’s by Almanzor so we’d expect him to get over ground. Guy Mulcaster continues to select these excellent horses for us to train.”
Rawiller was also suitably impressed by the improvement Carrazana displayed off the back of his debut performance and the acceleration he showed in the closing 300m.
“I wanted him to switch off and relax early and he’s got a lovely turn of foot, that probably surprised me a bit,” he said.
“The instructions were pretty simple, shut him down in the first half of the race and let his ability do the rest in the second half.”
Bred by Brendan and Jo Lindsay of Cambridge Stud, Carrazana was sold at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale and was purchased by Waller and agent Guy Mulcaster for A$440,000 and is raced by Neville Morgan and David Devine. He is a son of the English-bred Shamardal mare Empress Cixi, an unraced half-sister to the French Group Two winner and sire Ocovango.
Empress Cixi is already the dam of stakes performed Redoute’s Choice mare Manchu, who was runner-up in the Gr.3 Eulogy Stakes (1600m).
