Per Incanto's progeny may have narrowly missed the thick end of nearly $2.6 million in prize money in two of the feature races at Caulfield and Rosehill respectively on Saturday however the performances of Evaporate in Melbourne and Gringotts in Sydney were full of merit, coming off viruses that had threatened to derail their spring campaigns.
Evaporate charged home to run a close 2nd to Transatlantic in the Group 1 1600m Toorak Handicap, with the swing in the weights from his defeat of the Tony Gollan charge at their most recent start in the Sandown Stakes probably the difference.
With 61.5 kg's and clear top weight, Gringotts swept to the lead straightening for home in the $1.5 million 1400m Allan Brown Stakes, only getting run down in the closing stages by the winner Headley Grange.
Both runners-up combined stake earnings of $650,000 has lifted Per Incanto into the top 10 on the Australian sires premiership.
The Australian action moves to Randwick next weekend where Per Incanto's son Jimmysstar takes on the world's best sprinter Kar Ying Rising, who happens to be out of a Per Incanto mare, in the world's richest race on turf, the 1200m Group 1 $20 million the Everest.
