Trainer Trevor Bailey is torn between giving Faster Son another start in Melbourne or setting him for the next Brisbane Winter Carnival.

Faster Son (4g Fastnet Rock – Sonata by Palace Music) was most impressive winning the MRC Mitty’s Cup at Caulfield on Wednesday and Bailey believes there’s still plenty of upside to the exciting young sprinter.

The Gold Coast trainer will be tempted to keep Faster Son in Melbourne to take on the stars in the G1 Salinger Stakes at Flemington.  Or, he can take the gelding back home for a $100,000 sprint at Doomben before tipping him out for the Brisbane winter carnival.

Faster Son would be unbeaten in seven starts except for an early loss in an Ipswich Class 1 last December.  He is raced by Ontrack Thoroughbreds and syndicate manager Grant Morgan bought him for $45,000 at the 2008 Inglis Scone yearling sale.  

“I liked the Fastnet Rocks but they were out of our price range,” Morgan recalled.  “We went to Scone and were fortunate to be at the right place at the right time.”

Faster Son looked a potential black-type horse since a very impressive win at the Gold Coast on Melbourne Cup day last year.   He defeated Beethog on debut and that galloper was a subsequent winner of the G3 Gold Coast Guineas.

Faster Son is the third winner for Sonata who is by renowned broodmare sire Palace Music.  She won five races up to 2225m including the G3 Tattersall’s Cup at Eagle Farm.  She was also runner-up to Arctic Scent in the 1996 G1 Queensland Oaks.  

Sonata was empty in 2008 and her Royal Academy colt died soon after birth in August 2009.  She was bred back to Royal Academy but missed to him last October.