If you are anything like me, you come inside after finishing outside horse work, grab a drink and scroll through the day’s race and trial results on Breednet, just to see what’s what and catch anything you might have missed and sometimes your eye will be drawn to the unexpected.
I would usually scan straight down through the Balaklava trials without a backward glance, but today I stopped in my tracks at Normie No Show.
An unraced four year-old gelding by Exosphere from Personal Service, this guy is a half-brother to $8.4million earner Think It Over and is the last foal of his dam Personal Service.
While Think It Over was famously retained to race by his breeder Richard Johnston, Normie went to the sales and was sold for $55,000 to Yevrah Investments at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale.
He had one barrier trial when trained in Victoria by Dennis Pagan for a distant last at Geelong in January this year and was hastily put through Inglis Digital in February.
His sale page read - Here’s your chance to own a half-brother to Group 1 winner Think It Over. He has been given time but is not likely to live up to the owners expectations of being a Melbourne city class racehorse. Untried and bred to get plenty of ground indicating that he could have more to show when tried over further.
He was bought of $600 by J Glatz and is now trained by Garret Lynch at Murray Bridge.
He ran fifth of 11 in his first trial for his new connections last month and then won his 1050m heat today by half a length with Sophie Mitchell in the saddle.
Now I’m not expecting Normie is going to follow in the footsteps of his famous sibling, but we all love an underdog and I’ve put Normie in my Black Book so I can cheer him on come race day!
