BUSUTTIN MOVES QUICKLY TO SECURE MAPPERLEY GRADUATES

Leading Australian stable Busuttin Racing made a double swoop for a pair of progressive Mapperley Stud graduates to bolster their 3 year-old ranks for the Australian Autumn carnival. Last start Gr.1 placegetter Shoma and 2-time winner Rising Fast will join their Cranbourne stable

Shoma, a 3 year-old son of Contributer was last seen running a fast-finishing third behind Romanoff and Affirmative Action in Gr.1 2000 Guineas at Riccarton.

“He’s run third in a Group One and while he is still a maiden, he’s got reasonable form and any Group One form is good form,” Busuttin said.

“He raced on a very wet track and we certainly have plenty of wet tracks in Melbourne over the winter and he wasn’t a super expensive horse.

“He’s a horse that could progress through the grades and if there are some wet tracks in some of the three-year-old races later in autumn or winter that could suit him.

“Obviously the New Zealand bred horses continue to bat well above their average percentage wise, so it made sense, he was a nice horse on the market.”

The Tim and Margaret trained 3 year-old filly Rising Fast and exploded onto the scene recently with a pair of eye catching wins and the daughter of Complacent captured the attention of Bussutin.

“I thought she had a really nice turn of foot,” Busuttin said. Morgan Carter alluded to the fact she could possibly be bought. I know Tim and Margaret from when we trained out of Cambridge.

“She was very impressive at Tauranga and she put them away very quickly in that race.”

“Rising Star is a three-year-old, so there are plenty of options for her,” Busutiin said of the daughter of Complacent.

“She is in the stable now so we will spend a couple of weeks getting to know her. We might even give her a little freshen up and look towards a nice Adelaide three-year-old fillies race.

“As a two-win horse, she can go through the grades and obviously when you buy a filly you are hoping she turns into a black-type horse.

“She has been bought for Seymour Bloodstock and Darren Thomas and Mark Pilkington have been big supporters of us since we arrived in Melbourne. They buy a lot of horses out of New Zealand and they have had a lot of success, so hopefully this can be another one.”