Few sires have been in better form over the past week than Reset, for whom the winners keep flowing. Fresh from posting a quick-fire hat-trick of successes with three wins in three days, the second-crop sire made it four wins within a week when Teraset broke his maiden in style at Kyneton on Tuesday – and then his Stakes-winning son Rebel Raider posted yet another good effort to run third under top-weight in the Listed Geelong Classic.
Reset enjoyed a very satisfactory first season with his initial batch of two-year-olds in 2007/’08, highlighted by the Stakes wins of Rebel Raider (G3 SAJC Sires’ Produce Stakes) and Likefatherlikeson (AJC Fernhill Handicap). So far this season is promising to be even better for the exciting young Zabeel stallion.
Last Wednesday was a particularly productive day for Reset as he sired an interstate metropolitan double: Vintage Mo defied his inexperience to win at Doomben on only his second start, while Moulin Lady’s success at Warwick Farm the same afternoon took her record to two wins from only four starts. Two days later the stallion was responsible for another very promising winner, as the Lee Freedman-trained Reconcentrate broke her maiden at Mornington in eye-catching style: first up from a long spell, she sauntered home by six lengths over 1223m in the style of a filly who looks sure to hold her own in Melbourne.
Three days later Freedman sent out another promising Reset three-year-old, Teraset breaking his maiden on his second start with an impressive win at Kyneton. This race actually featured a Reset quinella, with the favourite Manning, another son of the stallion, finishing second to take his record to two placings from two starts. Both Reconcentrate and Tersaset race in the hugely successful Slade Bloodstock colours, best known for the big-race victories of another Freedman trainee, the former champion filly Alinghi.
Rebel Raider couldn’t quite make it five wins for Reset within eight days, but his run under top-weight in the Geelong Classic was still hugely meritorious. Carrying 58 kilos in this 12-runner Listed contest, he ran on bravely for third place, giving 2 kilos to the winner The Tiger and 3 kilos to the runner-up My Scotsgrey.
