Boom - Beaumarchais Bolts In

The second of Te Akau's two Avondale mid-week wins came with ...

Presented in sensational order by trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards, Beaumarchais (3 g Savabeel - Almaviva, by Catbird) broke through at his third start on 2 November at Avondale.

Denied room on debut behind Killarney (O'Reilly) over 1200 metres at Te Rapa, Beaumarchais followed with a close third in the Maiden 3YO 1400 metres at Ruakaka, a race in which the winner Top Prospect (Swiss Ace) won again on Melbourne Cup Day at Ellerslie, and second placed stable-mate Tiffany's Time (Alamosa) won a week ago at Avondale.

The efforts and form around him was taken heed of by punters and he returned a $2.00 win price.

“Hopefully he's a pretty serious horse in the making,” said Richards.

“He's taken a little while for the penny to drop but his trials were good, first-up run no luck, second-up run a big improver and it was good to see him do it the way he did today."

Able to trail the pacemaker from barrier one, Beaumarchais worked off the rail approaching the home turn for jockey Matt Cameron and after levelling mid straight he changed strides 100 metres out and drew away to by two lengths in the NZ All Golds Cosmopolitan Club Maiden 1400 metres.

He covered the trip in 1:25.3, last 600m in 35.0.

Richards suggested a freshen up could be in order for Beaumarchais and that a race like the Karaka 3YO Mile could be on his radar in January at Ellerslie.

“We'll probably take our time with him. He's still lightly framed, got the earmuffs on, can have a bit of a think about life, so there's no rush with him, but hopefully he might be ready to get into those serious races after Christmas.  He's a horse that is still very much in the making and just has to take the right steps.

“He's another lovely horse that David (Ellis) bought at Karaka, out of the Pencarrow draft."

Owned by the Te Akau Beaumarchais Syndicate, he was purchased as a yearling by David Ellis for $160,000 at the 2015 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Sale.

“We won two races today with horses carrying the brands: V in a box,” Ellis said.

“He is a horse with a lovely pedigree, had good size and scope, was a really good type of colt and I gave him an ‘A' in my catalogue notes.  The colt's second dam is Pavan, who ran second in the New Zealand Oaks, second in the Australian Oaks, out of Marmalitre who won the Australian Oaks. She was a really top filly of her year that Pencarrow bred."

Ellis also touched on an extremely busy time of late for the stable, campaigning horses in Melbourne, Christchurch and in the North.

“The boys have done an outstanding job in my opinion, in what has been an extremely difficult spring to get horses ready,” said Ellis, who is preparing for the first day of Cup week at Riccarton.

“The team is really starting to fire and we're looking forward to the weekend with our two nice colts [Hall of Fame & Heroic Valour] in the 2000 Guineas,” he said.

Interestingly, Beaumarchais is a half-brother to the stakes winning mare Atacama (Pentire) who won at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day last year.  He stems from a longstanding Pencarrow family; one that boasts prominent attributes of horses with both genuine acceleration and an ability to go over ground.

Beaumarchais was strapped by Wiremu Pinn.
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