There is 7,338
kilometres between Wodonga and Sha Tin racecourses but distance didn’t diminish
a double by Bel Esprit yesterday with Full Hand and Floral Man both impressive
on their respective sides of the Equator.
It was a home
town victory for Full Hand who scored by close enough to two lengths over 1400m
for his trainer Brian Cox and now takes his record to three wins and four
seconds from just 12 starts.
Full Hand is a
half brother to four winners including stakes winners and VRC Sires’ Produce-G2
runnerup, Ulfah, and the multiple stakes placed Grandway Shogun.
Full Hand is a
son of the stakes placed At Talaq mare, Separate Deal, in turn a daughter of
the brilliant performer, Draw Card who won the Magic Night-G2 in Sydney and
grabbed third in the VRC Sires’ as a 2YO.
Pretty much
everything out of the bottom half of this pedigree is the work of successful
Victorian breeders, the Tobin family, dating right back to Full Hand’s fourth
dam, Long Draw (1964).
Meanwhile,
Floral Man (below) has now grabbed
his second win on the trot in Hong Kong, taking out his 1400m assignment
comfortably for Danny Shum.
Floral Man has
now taken his earnings to over $1 million Hong Kong and has been a model of
consistency this time in.
Bred in South
Australia by the Mittigas, Floral Man is out of the Mookta mare Straight By and
was originally sold at the 2010 Adelaide Magic Millions before being snapped up
later that year by the astute Paul Beamish at the Magic Millions Horses in
Training Sale - as part of the consignment prepared by Eliza Park
WARNING – don’t
look at the photo below while eating your breakfast!
Not sure where
intrepid Bel Esprit blogger, Brian Donohoe, picked up this ‘Floral Man’ from
but he looks like something straight out of a Ray Bradbury novel.
Brian thought
it was a strange place to hang a ring, but claims to have no immediate plans of
getting one of his own!
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