Majestic Player trots in 1:52.2

The former Victorian square-gaiter Majestic Player, last year’s Australasian Breeders Crown four-year-old champion, has taken North America by storm this year.

The Yabby Dams Farm bred five-year-old gelding has won eight of his nine outings in his adopted country with the highlight being a career-best 1:52.2 winning effort at Hoosier Park, Indiana earlier this month.

Majestic Player is one of four very impressive trotting winners bred by Yabby Dam Farms in the last fortnight. 

Imsettogo, a four-year-old daughter of resident sire Used To Me, set tongues wagging with an amazing performance at Melton on June 27. After conceding 50 metres at the start, Imsettogo looped the entire field in the last lap and then careered away to score by 17 metres!

Imsettogo                                               — Stuart McCormick photo
 

It was her sixth success from nine starts this season and sent her stake tally over the $70,000 mark.

Cash Lover (by Ready Cash), a four-year-old mare bred by Yabby Dam Farms, notched her third win from her last four appearances at Ballarat.

Brandlo Prince and Beau Garcon, a pair of four-year-olds from Orlando Vici’s brilliant first crop, scored at Melton and Shepparton respectively. Brandlo Prince, bred by Yabby Dam Farms, hoisted a fresh lifetime mark of 1:59.3 on the way to his fifth success this season, while Beau Garcon soundly trounced his rivals in posting his fourth win.

Love You, the champion European sire whose frozen semen is available at Haras Des Trotteurs, was represented by three winners in New Zealand recently.

The undefeated two-year-olds Euro Kash and Love N The Port scored at Addington and Invercargill respectively, while outstanding three-year-old Ultimate Stride accounted for older, more experienced rivals by seven lengths from a 20 metre handicap at Invercargill. It was Ultimate Stride’s sixth win on end and his eighth from only 12 lifetime starts including two Group 1’s.

 

by Peter Wharton