Three-time Group 1 winner’s first foal to debut at Randwick
The eagerly-awaited debut of the first product of former star filly Sunlight will take place at Randwick on Wednesday.
Dawn Service will become the first to race out of the three-time Group 1 winner when the two-year-old contests the $60,000 Castelvecchio at Arrowfield Plate (1100m) on the Kensington track.
The son of Justify is one of two runners for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, accompanied by I Am Invincible youngster Fortingall, with Tim Clark to partner Dawn Service from barrier two.
The $1.4 million yearling had two trials in summer before being spelled and preparations for his debut have included second placings in two trials this time in work.
After being beaten two lengths by stablemate Bullfighter in a 740m trial at Randwick on June 14, Dawn Service was nosed out by the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Twirling over 1050m a fortnight later.
Sunlight was a star two-year-old who won a Magic Millions 2YO Classic and placed in a Golden Slipper before transferring that brilliance to three, winning a Coolmore Stud Stakes, Newmarket Handicap and William Reid Stakes.
The daughter of Zoustar was bought by Coolmore for $4.2 million at the end of her four-year-old season and sent to Justify with the pair producing the colt who sold at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Dawn Service was bought by Waterhouse, Bott and Kestrel Thoroughbreds and will be raced by a group that includes Coolmore, Yulong and Sir Owen Glenn's Go Bloodstock, whose colours he will race under.
Dawn Service's younger half-brother, by Wootton Bassett, also sold for $1.4m when knocked down to Paul Moroney and Catheryne Bruggeman at this year's Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
Sunlight also has a filly by Home Affairs who will turn one in a fortnight and is carrying a full sibling to Dawn Service.
Dawn Service is one of several well-related types who will debut at Randwick on Wednesday with one-time Golden Slipper favourite Red Resistance's half-brother Maori Chief – a son of I Am Invincible and Heatherly – also engaged in the second event.
Invincibella's first foal Mergeila, a $750,000 Easter yearling who is also by Justify, will run in the fillies' division, which kicks off the card.
