Entisaar's daughter wins in Australia

South African connections have had success in Australia over the last few days and one of the winners was out of More Than Ready mare Entisaar, the former Mike de Kock-trained Equus Champion Two-year-old filly of the 2014/2015 South African season.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Heat Missile (Too Darn Hot-Entisaar) won for owners Drakenstein Stud (Gaynor Rupert), Mike de Kock, Larry Nestadt and  Gary Barber at Warwick Farms on Wednesday.

Larry Nestadt also had a share in a British-bred Dubawi gelding called Assailant who won at the same meeting.

Last Thursday a Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained filly called Fearn Trick won in the Laurence Wernars colours at Scone. The Wernars family own this Farnan filly in partnership with Mike de Kock and Larry Nestadt and others.

Heat Missile is a four-year-old filly. Her dam Entisaar won both the Gr 2 SA Fillies Nursery and Gr 1 Allan Robertson when trained by De Kock.

Heat Missile is an Australian-bred and was purchased for Aus$200,000.

She has now won three times in nine starts.

Heat Missile’s race on Wednesday was in a 1400m handicap at Warwick Farms and she lay handy before powering clear coming into the straight and winning by 2.2 lengths.

She has finished fourth in a Listed race over 1600m before, so after this impressive performance she might step up into a black type event again.

Assailant, the British-bred that Larry Nestadt has a share in, recorded a remarkable victory under Adam Hyeronimus.

He went into the lead of the 2400m event, before Forbidden Reef under Chad Schofield came around him and took it up. They went at a cracking pace and opened up a gap between themselves and the rest of the field.

When the field closed on them Forbidden Reef was swamped and faded, but Assailant kept them at bay all the way up the straight in a courageous display.

Assailant was formerly trained by John and Thady Gosden and won second time out at Wolverhampton over nine and a half furlongs and in his sixth and final start in the UK he won off an Official Rating of 83 over one mile, three furlongs and 44 yards under Oisin Murphy in a race at Goodwood in which the winner received over £18,000.

He was originally purchased for 900,000 Gns at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 and was owned by Bjorn Nielsen of Stradivarius fame.

If the hope was he would develop into a Melbourne Cup horse he has been disappointing because Wednesday was his first win in Australia in his sixth start out there. However, he did win in impressive fashion on Wednesday in a performance which suggested he has any amount of stamina, and he could perhaps still amount to something.

Last week on Thursday at Scone Fearn Trick won over 1400m in her third career start, having finished fifth in both of her first two starts. She should continue to progress and could carry the Wernars colours to more victories.