Bred and sold by Newhaven Park, talented Written Tycoon filly Taormina made it two wins in as many starts when scoring at Rosehill on Saturday giving her jockey Tim Clark a big career milestone in posting his 1500th winner.
Taormina made all the running and held off a late challenge from Dundeel colt Fukubana to win the 1200m dash by a long head taking her career earnings in excess of $100,000.
“Tim Clark has had a great career and we’ve had a great association with him and that was a great example of the types of rides he can produce for us,” said Adrian Bott.
“She’s a nice professional filly that does everything right and he took bad luck out of the equation and she was tough enough to hang on.”
Taormina was a $450,000 Magic Millions purchase for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott/Kestrel Thoroughbreds from Newhaven Park and is the third winner from three foals to race from Infra Dig, a metro winning Exceed and Excel mare from the family of Champion 2YO and 3YO Filly English.
Newhaven Park sold a yearling colt by Frosted (USA) from Infra Dig at Magic Millions this year for $100,000 and she is in foal to one of the farm’s resident sires Xtravagant.
