THE BUSHRANGER NAME GAME

Ah, this is more like it …

Hot on the hoof of the announcement that Jeremy Noseda’s 220,000 guineas purchase had been named John Caesar (after Australia’s first bushranger John ‘Black’ Caesar) comes the news that another of Bushranger’s European 2YOs has been given the moniker of Bold Jack Donahue … the original Wild Colonial Boy.

Bred by the Keogh family and to be trained by Ralph Beckett, this likely colt will be raced by a syndicate named “The Outlaws”.

What’s more, Bold Jack Donahue is out of the Idris mare, Mother’s Hope: “he was his father’s only hope, his mother’s pride and joy, and dearly did his parents love, the Wild Colonial Boy …”