Kavanagh Stable might have another handy one.
War Ends debuted today at Ballarat. Finished 2nd really flattened out nicely at finish I thought. Wasn't going to get the winner but still taken by the effort.
War Ends earns a trip to Queensland
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
By Mark Ryan
Promising three-year-old War Ends is likely to race at the Queensland winter carnival after breaking through for his first win at his third start at Sandown on Wednesday.
The Redoute's Choice colt is raced by a group of six including New Zealand-based syndicator Rob McAnulty and the colt's breeder Bob Scarborough.
He had finished runner-up to subsequent Sandown winner Amaethon in a Ballarat maiden (1000m) and to the smart Launay over 1200m at Caulfield, both last month.
Backed from $2 to start $1.75 favourite in the $75,000 High Caste Hcp (1400m) on Wednesday, a race transferred from the Flemington meeting last Saturday to make room for the Australian Cup and Australian Guineas, he put up an impressive performance.
After racing outside the leader Cross Street ($4.60), War Ends, ridden by Michael Rodd, was left two lengths behind when Cross Street kicked strongly at the top of the straight.
But he picked up that Jeune colt quickly and went on to score by 1-3/4 lengths from Cross Street with Tee Emar ($18) 2-3/4 lengths away third.
"We've always known he's one of our better three-year-olds. We might give him a bit of a rest now and he might turn up at the Queensland carnival," Kavanagh said.
"The penny hasn't quite dropped with him. He's still a work in progress, the other horse dropped him off but he knuckled down and chased and got the job done.
"He's an interesting horse. He's got a fair way to go but once he learns to put it all together he'll be a pretty serious horse I reckon."
