Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
WA-bred two-year-old filly Im Category Five has made a wonderful start to her racing career, winning twice at Gloucester Park in the space of four days last week.
And now her breeder and owner Colleen Lindsay is hoping that Im Category Five, trained by Colin Brown, will go one better than her dam Typhoon Tiff by winning the Group 1 $100,000 Diamond Classic on August 8.
Typhoon Tiff was a brilliant young pacer who finished a close second to Majorpride in the Diamond Classic for two-year-old fillies in June 2018, and she was retired with earnings of $205,673 from eleven wins and five placings from 24 starts, with her major victories being as a three-year-old in the Group 2 Daintys Daughters Classic and Group 1 Westbred Classic for fillies.
Im Category Five is the second of Typhoon Tiff’s foals, and apart from the Diamond Classic she is likely to tackle the $215,000 Westbred Classic for fillies on September 5.
Mrs Lindsay and her husband Trevor are planning to run their other promising, Brown-trained filly The Sea Siren in the upcoming rich classic events.
Mrs Lindsay also bred Typhoon Tiff’s dam Tiffany Twisted, who shone as a two-year-old in the 2009-10 season when she raced eight times for three wins and two placings.
Tiffany Twisted’s elder half-sister Centrefold Angel, bred and owned by Mrs Lindsay, was a star performer who raced 47 times for 14 wins, 15 placings and $237,348. She won the Diamond Classic as a two-year-old in June 2009 before finishing second in the Group 1 Sires Series Stakes and second in the Group 1 Golden Slipper at her following two starts.
Dylan Egerton-Green drove Im Category Five when she was a $8.70 chance from the No. 4 barrier in the $21,000 Allwood Stud Pace over 1730m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
Miss Bejeweled was the $1.55 favourite from the No. 1 barrier on debut when her prospects were ruined when she met with a check on the first bend after the start and galloped badly.
Viva Lost Wages, a $6.50 chance trained and driven by Chris Voak, dashed to the front after 220m, with Im Category Five settling down in third place in the Indian file of the four runners left in calculation.
Im Category Five locked wheels with Altas Last 700m from home and was forced three wide before getting untangled and finishing strongly to get to the front with 350m to travel on her way to winning by two lengths from Altas Last, rating 1.59.9.
This followed Im Category Five’s impressive win at Gloucester Park on debut three days earlier when she was a $12.20 chance who trailed the pacemaker and favourite Gentlemans Promise before sprinting strongly to burst to the front 100m from the post and win by 5m from the leader.