Per Incanto’s 21/22 Australian achievements were going to take some toppling but New Zealand’s leading based sire of sprinters went to a new level on Saturday with the record-breaking son of Street Cry siring the winner and runner up in the feature sprints on ‘Super Saturday’ at Randwick and on Turnbull Stakes day at Flemington.
Lost And Running (Per Incanto-Dreamlife by Danroad) cemented second favouritism for the $15 Million Everest on 15 October with his win in the 1200m Group 2 $1 Million Premiere Stakes at Randwick while down at Flemington, last season’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap winner Roch 'N' Horse (Per Incanto-Rochfort by Cecconi) finished second to Group 1 winner and this year’s Stradbroke runner-up Private Eye at set weights in the 1200m Group 2 Gilgai Stakes.
Bred by JML Bloodstock, Lost and Running, who is raced by Carl Holt, Frank and Christine Cook, Lib Petgna and Isabel O’Shea, took his stake earnings to nearly $3 million with his latest win, the ninth from his 16 career starts.
The LA bred Roch 'N' Horse, who has finished second at Group 2 level at her last two starts and won nearly $1.2 million in stake earnings, is raced by LA, Adrian Cassin, Rob Wilson, Mike Smith, Stuart & Rosemary McLeod, Graeme Pickering, Grant Sharman, William Parkinson and Paul Collett.
Lost And Running cost just $40k from the Inglis Premier Sale while Roch N Horse was passed in for $40k at Karaka.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong last week, Per Incanto registered a new stakes performer with the Waikato Stud bred Duke Wai (Per Incanto- Swan Lake by Green Perfume) running third in the Group 3 Celebration Cup.
And in a seriously judicious piece of placement by vendors, Per Incanto has 10 2YO;s catalogued for the Inglis Ready to Race Sale at Riverside in Sydney on 11 October.
