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Gold Coast, January 9 – Lucky Owners featured at the Gold Coast on Saturday as the sire of promising three year-old Retrospect winner of the rich $104,625 BMW "Gran Tourismo" Magic Millions Maiden Plate.
Astute Queensland trainer Rex Lipp has a good opinion of the lightly raced colt and thinks he can provide him with more feature wins later in the year.
"The plan has come off," Lipp beamed from the winner's stall. "That was the race we wanted."
"We set him for this race. If he had have won the lead up we would have gone to the other race - for three-year-olds and I think the 1400 metres of that would have suited him better."
"I think he could be a winter carnival horse. He will run 1400 and 1600 metres."
"We might ease him up now and have a look at the carnival."
"He's a Queensland Guineas type horse. He's a miler - definitely a miler - on his breeding he's a miler as well."
A $10,000 purchase from the 2008 Magic Millions July Monthly Sale, Retrospect has had just four starts, placing twice before his lucrative breakthrough win.
Retrospect is from the Spectrum (IRE) mare Rainbow Joy, a daughter of Magic Millions winner Dancer’s Joy. |
