Per Incanto took his tally of winners for November to 18 following victories by Santa Monica (Per Incanto-Monarch by Volksraad) at Rotorua on Wednesday and Under Wraps (Per Incanto-Surreptitious by O'Reilly) at Avondale the following day.
Four-year-old gelding Under Wraps remains unbeaten this campaign after a fresh-up win at Te Aroha earlier in the month.
Perhaps the weeks most significant performance by one of Per Incanto's progeny, certainly from a longer term perspective, came in defeat. A Brisbane trainer Liam Birchely debuted the two-year-old Magic Mystery (Per Incanto-Da Vinci Code by Danasinga) in NSW on Monday and the high-priced Karaka Select yearling almost justified the avalanche of late support, losing a head-bobbing finish despite being very slow away and running greenly.
Birchely, who has won the Karaka Million twice despite only buying sparingly at Karaka, has his sights set on another crack at New Zealand's richest race with the LA and Stephen Mercer bred colt. Â
