Making his career debut at Canterbury on Monday, Regent fluffed his lines coming out of the barriers with Tye Angland electing to settle the Lonhro colt last on the rails.
Then the seas parted and in the space of 300 metres, Regent was in a striking position fifth on the rail without expending any energy.
Hooked to the outside on straighni8ng, Regent gradually wore down the favourite Envy Of All (Your Song) with Easy Go Easy Win (Savabeel) flashing home for an eye-catching third.
He's a horse that seems to build up in his revs over the last two hundred metres if you look after him early," Godolphin representative Darren Beadman said.
"The Lonhros tend to appreciate that little bit of cuddling and they'll give you their all over the concluding stages."
Regent is a son of the class
Wild Queen (pictured ) won three of her first four starts but she really hit her straps as a 5yo.
After a frustrating run of four minor placing in stakes races, Wild Queen reeled off four consecutive stakes wins, The Listed Angst Quality, Listed Belle Of The Turf, Listed Safilo Cup and Group III Hawkesbury Gold Cup.
After finishing second behind Steflara in the Group III Breeders' Stakes, Wild Queen defeated that mare in the Group III Millie Fox Stakes to bring her track career to a close.
She retired with a record of 10 wins, 5 seconds and 2 thirds from 21 starts with earnings of $557,150.
It was a good return for Darley who had purchased Wild Queen for $260,000 out of the Yarraman Park draft at the 2001 Easter Yearling sale.
From the famed family of Denise's Joy, Wild Queen is a half-sister to two stakes winners, the top-class So Gorgeous (Brief Truce) whose 6 wins included the Group II VRC Edward Manifold Stakes and Group II Ascot Vale Stakes and Group III winner Cumbria (Lake Coniston).
So Gorgeous is playing her part in extending the family fortunes by producing the Group I Golden Shaheen winner Sterling City (Nadeem) and the Group II Tulloch Stakes winner Tipungwuti (Fusaichi Pegasus).
Wild Queen's first date was with Redoute's Choice. The result was the filly Yavanna who had 2 wins and 1 second from 5 starts before heading to the broodmare paddocks. Her first foal is the Listed Lonhro Plate winner Telperion (Street Cry) who was runner-up to Yankee Rose in the Group I ATC Sires' Produce Stakes and fourth in the Group I Golden Slipper.
Wild Queen was covered again by Redoute's Choice in her second season but this time it was to northern hemisphere time and she was shipped off to Europe.
She had another filly named Nigh Garden who won at Clairefontaine and Compiegne from six starts.
After a filly by Street Cry (IRE) and two fillies by Medaglia d'Oro (USA), Wild Queen was shipped back to Australia but it did not all go to plan.
She slipped to Exceed And Excel and Lonhro before producing Regent whose future is looking bright following his first-up win.
