After finishing second in the race last year, Pop 'n' Scotch
looked to have redeemed himself when striding clear inside the 200 metres in
Saturday's Listed Queensland Cup at the Sunshine Coast but he began to wander
over the testing 3.200 metres and Mike Moroney's import Mister Impatience (GB)
was there to pounce.
In a slogging finish Robbie Fradd timed his finish inch
perfect on the import who needed the judge to find the tiniest margin.
It was the first stakes win for the 5yo son of Hernando who made his Australian breakthrough two starts earlier with a 7-length romp in a 3000 metre benchmark 70 at Ballarat.
"Lovely ride by Robbie, he would stay all day this horse," Moroney
stable foreman John Pisani said.
"He loves the soft ground we're really happy with him. He is
just one paced and needs a bit of tempo in the race."
A 2yo winner at Nottingham in three starts at two, Mister
Impatience (GB) looked a bright prospect following a 9-length win at Goodwood
at his first start at three.
He finished second in the Group III Chester Vase to the
subsequent Epsom Derby winner Ruler Of The World and fourth in the Group III
Queen's Vase over two-miles at Royal Ascot but in an unusually busy season of
12 starts at three, Mister Impatience failed to improve on his initial win and
was consigned to the Tattersalls Autumn Horse In Training sale in October 2013.
He came to the attention of Paul Moroney who went to 150,000
guineas for the then 3yo.
A half-brother to the Group III winner Tottie (Fantastic
Light), Mister Impatience is out of the stakes-winning Katy Nowaitee (Komaite)
who hails from the family of Group 1 winners Untols and Sally Brown.
Mister Impatience is by Hernando (pictutred) , a homebred for the
Niarchos family, who captured the 1993 Prix Du Jockey Club and finished second
in the Irish Derby.
Best known as the sire of multiple Group 1 winner Sulamani,
Epsom Oaks winner Look Here and French Derby winner Holding Court, the
pensioned 23-year-old son of Niniski died at Lanwades Stud in February 2013.
