Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted July 5, 2024 Journalists Posted July 5, 2024 Wathnan Racing's Aesterius (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}–Jane Doe {Ire}, by Hallowed Crown {Aus}) followed up an impressive debut score at Bath in May with a fifth in Royal Ascot's G2 Norfolk Stakes last month and was too good for five rivals to register a career high in Friday's Listed Dragon Stakes at Sandown. The £380,000 Goffs Breeze-Up graduate broke smartly from the outside gate and stalked the pace in second through halfway. Looming large at the quarter-mile marker, the 6-4 pick seized control approaching the final furlong and kept on powerfully to easily outpoint It Ain't Two (GB) (Calyx {GB}) by 1 1/4 lengths. Aesterius is the first of two foals produced by a half-sister to G3 Horris Hill S. victor and G2 German 2000 Guineas third Tawhid (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). His multiple Grade III-winning second dam Snowdrops (GB) (Gulch) is out of the stakes-placed Roses In The Snow (Ire) (Be My Guest), whose descendants include G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Tiger Tanaka (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}). The January-foaled bay is half to a yearling colt by Cotai Glory (GB). Fifth behind Shareholder in the Norfolk, AESTERIUS lands the Listed Dragon Stakes at @Sandownpark in style for @Archie_Watson, @the_doyler and Wathnan Racing pic.twitter.com/Rv1MJcCi2y — Sporting Life Racing (@SportingLife) July 5, 2024 The post Wathnan Racing’s Aesterius Powers to Dragon Triumph at Sandown appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article Quote
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