Night in Vegas (Lucky Vega) sent off the 5-6 favourite for this Weatherbys £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes having been fifth in the Coventry, third in the Richmond and won Newmarket’s £200,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes, racing towards the fore from the outset. Produced to collar Satellite Of Love (Minzaal) in the final furlong, the bargain 60,000gns Tattersalls October Book 3 purchase asserted to score by half a length.
“It’s really hard as a three-year-old to win big money, so you’ve got to win it this year and then you can go and have fun in black-type races or whatever and try to be clever, but let’s just go for the money,” trainer Eve Johnson Houghton said. “He’s in the Redcar race [the Listed Two Year Old Trophy] and he’s also in the seven-furlong Tattersalls October Auction Stakes, it just depends whether we go back to six furlongs or go up to seven and then I think we’ll probably end up at Ascot for the conditions race on Champions Day.”
“It’s been a great year. Last year we hit the £1-million barrier with the help of Zavateri and this year we’ve got some really good horses across the board,” she added. “This horse has definitely been a money-spinner and I’m so lucky to be training him for a great bunch of owners.”
The unraced dam, who has produced the Listed-placed Shepherds Way (Dark Angel) and whose yearling filly by Minzaal is catalogued in the upcoming Tattersalls October Book 3, is a half to the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, July Cup and British Champions Sprint Stakes hero Slade Power (Dutch Art) from the family of the Phoenix Stakes hero Ebro River (Galileo Gold). She also has a colt foal by Starman.
Written for Thoroughbred Daily News
