With three winners, which includes two Stakes performers, from his initial crop to race, G1-winning Redoute’s Choice stallion Nadeem justified his current favourite tag to be crowned the Champion first-season sire, with the impressive debut performance of Irish Times at Randwick.
Jumping away from barrier two, the Clarry Conners-trained colt settled back in the field behind a solid pace upfront.
As the field fanned rounding the home turn, jockey Nash Rawiller gave the impressive looking colt some more rein and he forced his way through a gap to come down the outside of the field to record a length-and-a-quarter victory over his stablemate Seven Fly Seven.
Bred and raced by Wilkes Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd, Irish Times is out of the Stakes-performing Strategic mare Heat Of The Fire. Currently in foal to the leading stallion Commands, Heat Of The Fire is out of the winning Octagonal mare Bon Fire and comes from the family of the dual G1-winning Redoute’s Choice mare Melito and the international G1-winning Zabeel gelding Greys Inn.
Winner of the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes where he defeated Miss Finland and Wonderful World, Nadeem has already been represented by the dual Stakes-performing filly Triple Asset and New Zealand colt The Aftershock, a third placegetter in the Listed Welcome Stakes.
With 12 of his 14 currently raced two-year-old collecting prize money, the 10 yearlings catalogued for the upcoming Inglis Premier yearling sale and the further 11 catalogued for the Inglis Easter yearling sale to be held in early April, are sure to be highly sort after.
