Spelled after finishing eighth in the Inglis Nursery, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Sheikha was well tuned with two recent trial wins under her belt and scored a very comfortable length and a quarter win in the 1100 metre maiden.
She cruised along for Josh Parr and won with something in hand to beat Your
Song filly Devolving, who ran an encouraging race on debut."She's grown and furnished into a lovely filly, so we'll look at a race like the Percy Sykes (Group II on April 8) with her," said Adrian Bott.
Sheikha runs in the familiar colours of Emirates Park and was bought by them for $350,000 from the Widden Stud draft at Inglis Easter last year.
Bred by Widden in partnership, she is the first winner for Group III winner Solar Charged, whose current yearling, a filly by Zoustar, was sold by Widden at Magic Millions for $300,000 to Aquis/McEvoy Mitchell Racing/Blue Sky Bstock.
Solar Charged has a weanling filly to follow by Zoustar and is now back in foal to Sheikha’s sire Sebring, who had a great day at the track also siring winners at Sandown (Motown Lil) and Warwick Farm (Wu Gok), both of them also sold by Widden.
Widden Stud have a big draft of 36 for Inglis Easter this year, click here to see them.
