Stratum youngster Bush Aviator made the best possible start to his
racetrack career with a comprehensive win in the $100,000 Listed Elwick
Stakes (1100m) at Hobart on Sunday.
Sent down to the Apple Isle by Danny O'Brien for his track debut, Bush Aviator
sat on the speed throughout and accelerated nicely when asked by Jamie Mott to
win handsomely.
A $2 favourite with the satchel swingers, Bush Aviator finished full of running
- drawing clear of the early avourite Testa Gee Gee to win by a widening two
and a quarter length margin.
Western Hero was third, a further three and a quarter lengths back, while the
well fancied local Kenjorwood did his best work late after missing the start.
Bush Aviator was yet to trial in public and was scratched when accepted last October
for the Debutants Stakes - won by Blue Diamond fancy Jimando.
And the exciting youngster could well have his next run in Melbourne's
premier juvenile race - the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes - he holds an entry
and is now into $41 with bookies.
The colt, (pictured as a yearling) a stunning chestnut, is raced by Alan and Jennifer Acton from
Rockhampton after they purchased him for $140,000 at last year's Magic Millions
Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
The youngster was a member of the Widden Stud draft and with today's win he pocketed
connections a cool $60,000.
Bush Aviator is by the former outstanding Magic Millions graduate and Golden
Slipper winner Stratum, who is now the sire of 10 individual stakes winners.
His dam, the Geiger Counter mare Sister Patricia, was an outstanding racemare
in Perth having won eight races and earned almost $400,000.
She won a Group Three RJ Peters Stakes and listed Boulder Cup at Kalgoorlie and
was second in a Group One Railway Stakes.
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