When
your dad is High Chaparral (IRE) and your mum is a full sister to Fastnet Rock,
it's not hard to think that a colt like this might be well above average.
A $400,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Coolmore draft, three year-old colt
Top Score was a winner on debut at Warwick Farm back in October and then fourth
as favourite when resuming from a spell on heavy ground over 1000 metres at
Randwick on January 23.
Sent out favourite again in the Benchmark 67 event over 1200 metres, the John Sargent trained Top Score
was burdened with 60.5 kg, but still proved too good in scoring a narrow win
for Tye Angland.
Raced by the Unifaith Syndicate managed by Anton and Ollie Koolman, Top Score is
entered for all the big autumn features.
Top Score is the fifth winner from Sarasota, a winning full sister to dual
Group I winner and champion sire Fastnet Rock.
Coolmore will offer a Pierro filly from Sarasota at the 2016 Inglis Australian
Easter Yearling Sale as Lot 51.