Newgate Farm’s Foxwedge sired an impressive debut winner overnight in the UK with two year-old colt Balgair scoring an easy victory at Sandown.
In a big field of 16, the Jonathan Portman trained Balgair proved superior in powering clear to win the seven furlong maiden by two lengths on good going.
“Balgair is a nice horse and he liked the ground. I´m sure there´s more to come,” said his trainer.
“He´s got a very patient owner who wouldn´t mind putting him away now, but he is in a big sales race and it´s worth a lot of money – it might just keep me in a job for the next year so we´ll see. We won´t rush him back and his next run will tell us more, but we like him.”
Balgair was a 12,000 guinea purchases from the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and is the third winner for Glencal, a half-sister by Compton Place to stakes-winner Kasumi.
He is the 15th winner overall for Foxwedge, who now has five in the UK, six in Australia, two in New Zealand and one each in Ireland and the USA.
A Group I winning son of Fastnet Rock, Foxwedge stands this spring at a fee of $22,000.
