{"id":17320,"date":"2019-12-14T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2019-12-14T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:41:16","slug":"conceited-lands-debut-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2019\/12\/14\/conceited-lands-debut-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceited lands debut win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amarina Farm graduate Conceited<\/strong> (Brazen Beau x Classy Chloe) has pressed his claims for a Magic Millions Classic tilt after making a winning debut at Flemington.<\/p>\n

The James Cummings-trained colt started $3.60 favourite and was forced to dig in for a fight in Saturday’s #LovetheHorse (1100m) for two-year-olds, responding to a challenge from Jabali Ridge ($5.50) to beat him by a half-neck.<\/p>\n

Cummings and Godolphin won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic last season with filly Exhilarates and Conceited was a $625,000 yearling purchase from Amarina Farm’s Gold Coast draft in January.<\/p>\n

Melbourne stable representative Sean Keogh suggested next month’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast would be on the radar for Conceited.<\/p>\n

“I think so,” Keogh said.<\/p>\n

“James hasn’t spoken too much about it. But just seeing what we had there today definitely opened our eyes to it.”<\/p>\n

Conceited had blinkers applied in his most recent of two Flemington jump-outs and he wore them on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“He’s a big, scopey type of horse,” Keogh said.<\/p>\n

“He’s taking his work well and he’s got a bit of natural talent.”<\/p>\n

Conceited was ridden by Damian Lane, who won last season’s Golden Slipper for the stable on Kiamichi, and he believes the colt will improve with time.<\/p>\n

“He’s a nice horse. He’s not a two-year-old type,” Lane said.<\/p>\n

“He’s a big boy and he’s going to be better next year, whatever he does.<\/p>\n

“So it’s promising to see him doing these sorts of things early.<\/p>\n

“Three weeks ago in a trial he was really green and really wayward. He’s had another one since and then another week into the race and he’s really starting to furnish into a racehorse.<\/p>\n

“It’s the first time he’s been fully tested so it was good to see him respond.”<\/p>\n

Asked if the colt could measure up to the Magic Millions if connections head that way, Lane was measured but expects the colt to be better next season.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t put anything past him, just because of how much he’s improved already this prep, but I would be surprised,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Just because for me he probably looks like more of a three-year-old.” -AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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