Kaonic (NZ)
3 c Savabeel – Fast Love by Fastnet Rock
O: N Morgan
T: Chris Waller
B: JML Bloodstock Ltd, Central
S: New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale V: Blandford Lodge P: Mulcaster B/stock NZ$425000
W: All Too Hard @ Vinery Maiden Plate, 1550m, Canterbury, 4 October
The Chris Waller-trained Kaonic looked a highly promising three-year-old stayer in the making when breaking his maiden at the second attempt over 1550 metres at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Following his late-closing third over 1400 metres on debut at Warwick Farm on 20 September, he settled nicely in fifth place on the rails in the seven-horse field but was under riding from the 700 metres when the pace picked up noticeably.
Kaonic got to a distant second at the 200 metres but found an impressive finishing kick to run down Delos (Makfi) by a length, with a further length and a half back to Wild About Her (Big Brown) in third.
The colt is the only foal to date out of the Listed winner Fast Love (Fastnet Rock), who is herself a half-sister to the Group Three winner Kiss Me Ketut (Danroad) and the stakes winner A Chance To Dream (Volksraad).
His unraced second dam is the Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) mare Make Me Dream, who is a half-sister to the American Grade Two placegetter Green Lemon (Lemon Drop Kid), while his third dam is the French stakes winner Heavenly Calm (Diesis).
Further back, this is the family of former champion filly Midway Lady (Alleged), who won the 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) and Oaks (Gr 1, 1m4f) in 1986 and is the dam of 2005 Oaks winner Eshwarah (Unfuwain) and Group Three winner Itnab (Green Desert).
He also shares a page with Brazilian Grade One winner Maltes (Red Runner), Group Two winner Greenlander (Green Desert) and 2014 Kyoto Kinen (Gr 2, 2200m) winner Desperado (Neo Universe).