New Release: Daytona

Daytona is a well bred and lightly raced 3-year-old gelding that has huge upside with strong Sydney metropolitan form who has run gallantly in feature group races in his last two starts.

A son of Sebring out of a group performed Snitzel mare, Daytona was $500,000 yearling and is a very attractive type.

At his most recent start, Daytona ran competitively in the Group 2 Phar Lap Stakes beaten only 2.8L by star Group 1 filly Zougotcha, defeating subsequent WA Derby winner Awesome John as well as Group 1 Thousand Guineas winner Madame Pommery. Prior to that, Daytona ran in the Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes where after missing the start he was strong through the line being beaten only 1.75L by Group winner Elliptical.

Daytona has always shown consistent Sydney metropolitan class and he was a dominant winner at Warwick Farm last October.

Daytona will be trained by QLD’s leading horsemen Tony Gollan from his Eagle Farm base. Tony has an outstanding record of taking tried horses to the next level and we believe Daytona has plenty of scope for further improvement.

Daytona will appreciate the drop in grade at Brisbane metropolitan level where we expect him to win races pretty quickly.

The main aim is to see him target some of the feature races over the Magic Millions carnival early next year.