With three individual winners and all 11 runners to date having earned prize money, Gonski’s two-year-olds have got away to a very positive start on the track.
After dropping back in class from Stakes level, Rick Hore-Lacy’s talented Gonski colt Gone Skiing broke his maiden with a long neck victory at Terang on February 28.
Jumping from an outside gate and being trapped wide throughout, the Jake Noonan-ridden colt made a concerted effort to haul in the leader to record a tough victory.
Bred by Victoria’s Laceby Lodge, Gone Skiing is out of the Tierce mare Whim, a full-sister to the G1 Golden Slipper winner Encounter and comes from the family of Stakes performers Janole, Verstak, Inner City, Show Of Force, Atomic Force, Ali Spur and Icy Groom.
Gonski has two yearlings catalogued for the Inglis Premier yearling sale which commenced on February 28 at Oaklands. Both selling on the fourth day of the sale, Lot 675, a bay colt from the Euclase mare Zip You Up comes from the family of G1 AJC Oaks winner Wild Iris.
Two lots later, a bay or brown filly from the draft of Shady Lane Thoroughbreds has received a significant pedigree update since the catalogue went to print due to the Stakes victory of Exceed And Excel gelding Canali which appears close up in the in family.
A winner of the Listed Concept Sport Stakes over G1 winner Perfectly Ready by two-and-a-quarter lengths, Gonski defeated no fewer than nine G1 winners throughout his career and was rated within four points of Champion Stratum after a wide-margin Rosehill victory debut.
