Do I Feel Lucky will have to be on his best behaviour for Chris Parnham to turn the tables on Strideaway in the RL Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic (1200m) at Pinjarra.
Strideaway (Alabama Express) has opened the $3 TAB favourite for tomorrow’s $250,000 sales-related feature race following a three-quarter length victory over Do I Feel Lucky (Dirty Work) at Ascot a fortnight ago.
Do I Feel Lucky is on the second line at $5 and Parnham will be looking for cover from an outside gate to complete a hat-trick in Magic Millions 2YO Classic following Big Shots (Sizzling) and Super Smink (Super One).
Parnham is also mindful there must not be a repeat of the mind-set that cost the youngster dearly the last time they met. Stewards reported Do I Feel Lucky; “Bumped on jumping. Raced wide and greenly throughout.” He got to the front but the tank was empty when Strideaway chimed in half-way down the straight.
Do I Feel Lucky is trained by Sean & Jake Casey for owner Maureen Daly who bought him for $100,000 from Mogumber Park at the 2024 Perth Magic Millions. He’s bred to be precocious as the first foal from Mindarie (Safeguard) and his Rommel half-sister has been catalogued for the Perth Magic Millions Sale next Thursday, February 20.
Mogumber Park’s Colin Brown and Fiona Lacey are already on the Magic Millions 2YO Classic roll-call as vendors of 2009 winner Wolfe Dreams (Sequalo) who had been purchased by Commercial Bloodstock’s Noel Carter at the 2008 Magic Millions Sale.
Wolfe Dreams stayed in training for Steve Wolfe eventually banking over $500,000 and more black-type in the LR Grandstand Cup (1600m) of 2011.
The Rommel – Mindarie filly (Lot 84) is one of the highlights among Mogumber Park’s 19 lots about to arrive for inspections outside Barns K and L at the Swan Valley sale grounds. The family has 2yo black-type going right back to 1992 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) winner Dynamic Beau (Dynamo).
Mogumber Park was also instrumental in Hunter Valley first-season sire Dirty Work (Written Tycoon) opening his account at stud when Do I Feel Lucky was successful at Ascot on January 4. The Bullsbrook nursery backs up with a second-crop Dirty Work colt from Rapture Miss (Smart Missile) as Lot 113 next Thursday.
Brown reports the feedback out of their pre-sale inspections at the farm has been very positive for a well-balanced draft which includes four lots by its Champion 2YO Sire Safeguard plus colts and fillies by interstate stallions Farnan, Zousain, Captivant, Hellbent, Cosmic Force, Anders and Spirit Of Boom.
Spirit Of Boom’s colt from Poverty Point (Lot 108) is a younger half-brother to Into The Future (Playing God) who can add her name to the family’s black-type pedigree nurtured by Bob Peters. She pulled up shinny after an unplaced debut at Bunbury last month but trainer Ryan Hill is quietly confident she can develop into a classic filly later this season.