Ken Casellas | Photo: Hamilton Content Creators
Serpentine trainer-reinsman Dylan Egerton-Green wasn’t sure that Rockmyster had sufficient gate speed to set the pace in the 2130m $21,000 You’ve Got The TABtouch Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night, and he was pleasantly surprised when the five-year-old revealed excellent speed from barrier five to surge to the front after 100m.
And from then on it was a one-horse affair, with Rockmyster, the $3.20 favourite setting a solid pace with final quarters of 29.9sec., 29sec. and 27.9sec. on his way to winning by just over two lengths from Dominus Factum ($4.80), with Star Casino ($3.40) finishing third after sustaining a long three-wide burst.
Rockmyster rated 1.56.3 and improved his record to 44 starts for 12 wins, ten placings and $140,023 in prizemoney. He won once from nine starts in New Zealand, and his WA record stands at 35 starts for 11 wins and nine placings.
He is by American sire Rock n Roll Heaven and is the sixth foal out of Operative Asset, whose seventh foal, Hammer Down, made a successful debut when he finished brilliantly for trainer-reinsman Nathan Williamson to win by two lengths from Glenkenick at a 1.57 rate over 1609m at Forbury Park on June 22 this year.
Hammer Down, a small gelding by Always B Miki, will do his future racing in Western Australia.