Matamata trainer Graham Richardson has high hopes for impressive two-year-old winner Volpe Veloce, the fifth winner for Newgate Farm’s promising young sire Foxwedge.

A $240,000 Karaka yearling purchase from the Lyndhurst Farm draft, the talented filly took out the Broadway Racing & Breeding Partnership 1200 at Matamata on Wednesday under a positive Craig Grylls ride, dashing away to win by more than two lengths.

“She looks like she might be alright,” grinned Richardson. “There is always a lot of pressure on when you pay a lot of money for a filly.  But she is all quality and will be a better horse next year.”

The winner of a trial in January, Volpe Veloce was also placed in a trial last month at Matamata behind stakes winning juvenile Sassy ‘n’ Smart.

“It was a very strong trial that day and it gave us a good line on her, finishing right behind Sassy ‘n’ Smart, so we were pretty confident today,” he said.

Richardson has sourced a select group of well-bred fillies at the yearling sales in recent years and will look to target the lucrative New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series with Volpe Veloce next season.

“She will follow a similar path to Strada Cavallo, who was runner up to Sofia Rosa in the Filly of the Year Series this year.

“She will make a lovely three-year-old and we will go in search of black-type to enhance her residual value.”

Volpe Veloce was a successful pinhook for Lyndhurst Farm having been bought for $120,000 at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale.

She is a half-sister to stakes-winner Delago Bolt and is the fourth winner from Group III winner Bardego, whose current yearling, another colt by Foxwedge will be offered by Muskoka Farm at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next week as Lot 193.