First Stakes Success for Royal Discretion
8th March 2008
Gai Waterhouse produced another smart three year-old at Rosehill on Saturday when Royal Discretion (3g Royal Academy x Discretion, by Canny Lad) scored a powerful win in the Listed STC Darby Munro Quality.Resuming from an EI enforced spell of 29 weeks, Royal Discretion showed his rivals a clean pair of heels at the finish to score by a length and a half in the 1200 metre event after travelling handy throughout.
Royal Discretion found the line impressively to claim his first Black Type success in beating the improving gelding Malambo (3g Choisir x Bomba, by Last Tycoon).
“He was so decisive today,” trainer Gai Waterhouse said.
“He’s always shown us he’s got a lot of promise so I couldn’t be happier with the way he won today.”
Royal Discretion has now won three of eight starts collecting $157,200 in prizemoney and can no doubt be placed to further advantage as the autumn carnival unfolds.
Raced by the Bott family’s E Thoroughbred and their South African based partners, Royal Discretion was purchased by Tony Bott for $180,000 at the 2006 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale from the draft of Attunga Stud.
A half-brother by Royal Academy to Group Three placed mare Tactfully, Royal Discretion is the third foal of stakes-placed Canny Lad mare Discretion, a half-sister to South African stakes-winner Sunrise Silence.
