Exciting young sire Cosmic Force will have a runner in the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes next month with exciting colt Stay Focused securing his place with a debut win in the $150,000 Geelong Diamond (1100m) on Saturday.

Ridden by Daniel Stackhouse for Phillip Stokes, Stay Focused justified the confidence of punters when he ran down the $1.3 million Snitzel colt Trunk to win by two lengths securing an automatic start in the Blue Diamond.

A $190,000 pinhook for Blade Racing from the Kingstar Stud draft at the National Weanling Sale, Stay Focused was the highest-priced yearling from the first crop of Cosmic Force when Bennett Racing went to $250,000 to secure the colt from the Sledmere Stud draft at the 2023 Magic Millions.

Bennett Racing has enjoyed success with Stay Focused’s three-quarter sister, Beauty Rising (Deep Field), and half-brother, Apache Star (Star Witness).

“I think he is a very good horse. We loved him from the day we bought him,” Nathan Bennett said.

“He is the highest-priced Cosmic Force colt. We love this horse so much that we have gone hard on Cosmic Force and put a few mares to him.

“The way he did that is very exciting; he lengthens out and has a huge stride. The way he paraded, he is such a professional. He says look at me; I think he loves himself; he knows he is good.”

A half-brother to Group III-placed Miss Moana and Listed Geelong Classic runner-up Hollywood Mo, Stay Focused is the seventh winner from nine to race for the Galileo mare Coral Reef, a grand-daughter of Group I Irish Oaks winner Knight’s Baroness.

Coral Reef has a yearling brother to Stay Focused. After missing in 2022, the daughter of Galileo was among the first mares to visit Artorius.

Stay Focused is the second winner for Cosmic Force, who is also the sire of stakes-placed Beer Baron.

Cosmic Force has 14 entries for Magic Millions.