Odyssey Moon Stars For Northam At Randwick
- Saturday, 13 December 2014 07:45
Trainer Rod Northam is already a double winner with youngster Odyssey Moon who made a successful debut in the $250,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick.
The Scone trainer was the original buyer of the colt and re-sold him for a handy profit to Dr Edmund Bateman.
"I bought him for $25,000 and sold him for $120,000. Now he's won $145,000," Northam said.
"It's really nice to get a client like Dr Bateman.
"I said to (bloodstock agent) James Herron after he bought the horse, 'you've just bought yourself a Golden Slipper winner'.
"He said, 'I hope so because you're training him'."
Odyssey Moon ($18) worked over from the second widest draw to race on the pace for Tye Angland and kicked in the straight to hold off Kimberley Star ($8) by a neck with favourite Let's Make It Rain ($3.30) another length third.
The race was restricted to horses sold at Inglis sales.
Northam said his confidence rose when he worked Odyssey Moon with stable star Big Money before the latter went to Brisbane to win the George Moore Stakes a week ago.
"I worked him with Big Money before he went to Brisbane and I was pretty keen that he'd run well," Northam said.
"I wasn't happy with draw, but when it rained I was happy.
"He's by Snitzel and they are generally bred to handle sting out of ground."
The track was soft and passed its first test for some weeks after being renovated with Saturday's two-year-old race the biggest field of the meeting.
Chief steward Ray Murrihy said he had some concerns as horses only cantered over the surface in the morning.
"We had wanted to see horses gallop on it but they didn't so I was a bit gun shy," he said.
"They are getting into it and there is a little bit of kick-up.
"It is heading in the right direction."
