Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Inexperienced gelding Kabochon gave a sample of his excellent ability when Ravenswood trainer Jocelyn Young drove him to a stylish victory in the $21,000 Garrard’s Your One Stop Shop Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
The Victorian-bred Kabochon now has had two starts for Young for two convincing wins at his first two starts as a three-year-old, and now Young is setting him for the $50,000 Group 3 Caduceus Club Classic on April 26.
Owners Peter and Sue Gianni sent Kabochon to WA last year to be trained by Young’s younger sister Madeliene. “And when she went travelling, the horse was sent to me,” said Jocelyn Young.
“He is a nice horse and there is plenty more there. He is still learning.”
Kabochon, the $3.60 second favourite, got away well from barrier two and settled down in the breeze, with the polemarker and $3.40 favourite Off The Charts setting the pace. Grevis ($3.90) dashed forward to move to the breeze after about 500m, thus providing a perfect one-out, one-back trail for Kabochon.
Young bided her time before she sent Kabochon forward, three wide, 250m from home, after the third 400m section of the final mile was run in 28.2sec. Kabochon sprinted strongly and won in fine style by a length from Off The Charts, rating 1.58.4 over the 2130m, with a final quarter of 28.5sec.
“I was happy to take cover, one-out and one-back, because he was probably a run short tonight,” said Young. “At this stage he is better suited to sit up in his races. He was nice and relaxed tonight after he was quite keen when he won at Pinjarra three and a half weeks earlier.”