Newgate Farm are partners in two outstanding two year-old colts in King’s Gambit and Red Resistance, the talented pair filling the quinella in the Group III ATC Canonbury Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
King’s Gambit was a short priced favourite on the strength of his five length debut win in the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes during the spring, but the Peter and Paul Snowden trained son of I Am Invincible came up short against Red Resistance.
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Red Resistance had race fitness on his side following his debut win at Randwick earlier this month and the son of Russian Revolution took full advantage.
Red Resistance was gifted an uncontested lead under Brett Prebble, while James McDonald tracked him on the favourite King’s Gambit, but it became apparent at the 300m he was working hard to bridge the gap.
Red Resistance kept up a relentless gallop to defeat King’s Gambit by one and a quarter length with a half-length back to the royally-bred Snitzel colt Shinzo, a full brother to Exhilarates.
“The exciting part is, this is the right type of colt to do it. There is so much depth to him, and he keeps improving,” Adrian Bott said.
“I still don’t think we’ve seen the bottom of him yet. He has a lot of scope to keep improving, is a lovely individual, and was very professional once again today.
“He had to step up in class once again against some well-credentialled opposition, and he responded well.
“We thought we’d come here today, get him qualified, then go through the Todman, which is the traditional lead-up path, particularly for these colts.
“He is the exact type of colt who could go there and be very competitive and win a race like the Todman. Then he could go to the Slipper and be very competitive in that race.”
Withdrawn from Inglis Easter and retained to race by Go Bloodstock and Newgate, Red Resistance has already won over $200,000 from two wins at his first two starts. He is the second foal and second winner from brilliant Group II winning Lonhro mare Heatherly, who was also twice Group I placed in the MVRC Moir Stakes and MRC Oakleigh Plate.
Heatherly was purchased for $1.6million by Go Bloodstock Australia/Paul Moroney Bloodstock at the 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.
Red Resistance is the fifth stakes-winner for Newgate Farm’s Russian Revolution and interestingly four of those stakes-winners are trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
Russian Revolution has 19 entries for Inglis Classic.
