She’s by a Golden Slipper winning sire and out of a Golden Slipper winning dam and while this three year-old filly finished her juvenile season unraced, Loera is now a winner with the promise of better things to come.
Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Capitalist filly Loera was having her second start at Canterbury on Wednesday after a first up second at Rosehill earlier this month on a slow track.
With firmer footing this time and a positive ride from Tim Clark, Loera was too good for the race favourite Graffiti Tycoon winning the 1250m maiden by the best part of a length.
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Loera was retained to race by the Altomonte family, who also bred and raced her dam Overreach, winner of the 2013 Golden Slipper for Gai Waterhouse before Adrian Bott joined the training partnership.
“She’s a very well bred filly and we are delighted to be able to have the opportunity to train her for the Altamonte’s,” said Adrian Bott, who had just come to Tulloch Lodge when Overreach was in the stable.
“We had Overreach and she was obviously very talented. This filly’s got so much upside herself, and she’s come through two very strong races, so I’m sure she can go on with it.
“Overreach was there the first year that I arrived, so I was able to see a bit of her through that two-year-old preparation. She obviously just had so much natural talent and natural speed.
“Physically, Loera certainly is a very similar type to Overreach in that regard, but she hasn’t come to it as early as her mother did although I’m sure there’s still plenty of talent there to progress with through her career.”
Adrian Bott is happy to progress quietly for now with Loera although with stakes races at Scone and in Brisbane in coming weeks, the opportunity to chase Black Type may fall into place.
Loera is a half-sister to Group II winning sprinter Lofty Strike, who now stands at Swettenham Stud, and is the fifth winner from five foals to race from Overreach, who was the Champion 2YO Filly of 2012/2013.
Overreach has an unraced two year-old filly by Snitzel called Piaffe, that is trained by Peter Snowden and produced a filly last spring by Zoustar before being covered by Extreme Choice.
Newgate Farn’s Capitalist is setting the pace on the Australian sires by winners list with 145 on the board including six stakes-winners and priced at $44,000 this spring represents outstanding value.
